Booth Activities-MTU

[fantASTic1899]

Every fall at Michigan Tech we do an event called Fall Nighter. All of the Student Organizations use this to get their name out and to recruit new members.

The groups set up booths inside.
This year they changed the requirements. Instead of just having informational booths you need to have an activity.

We usually make friendship bracelets. We hardly attract attention with this and the girls that do come to the table are there the whole time. I feel that when those girls are in the seats that other girls can't sit down and chat either.

I need ideas!! HELP!

[AOII Angel]

Is this an ice breaker type activity or philanthropic activity?

[panther123]

There are tons of simple carnival games you could do that would let you do fast turn-arounds to meet lots of people. You can do candy or a treat like cookies for prizes (Since you probably can't give anything bigger than a certain amount out, I know our limit was always a quarter).

You could easily make a fishing game with magnetic plastic fish with your letters or a bean bag toss into a cute board decorated with your letters and/or pictures.

[fantASTic1899]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Is this an ice breaker type activity or philanthropic activity?

It's more of an ice-breaker event i guess you could say.
all the groups have a table and since its about a week after freshmen orientation we get a lot of first years that approach us. I have never done it before and I didn't go last semester.

We hand out a list of when our recruitment events are but i want something that draws a lot of pnm's in.

[SCTransplant]

I used this idea for a trade show to drive people to our booth. I bought two jigsaw puzzles (two of the same puzzle) and completed one except for a piece in the middle. (I attached it to some foam core so I could display it on an easel.) Then I pulled apart the second one. You would have to have some sisters passing individual pieces out as women enter the event. You probably should use that pull off glue and glue each piece to a card inviting the women to try their piece at your table. If you can have a "prize" - maybe some school name item - so much the better. That way the women will come up to the puzzle and you'll have a chance to talk with them, but they won't sit and stay.

[fantASTic]

Originally Posted by fantASTic1899

Every fall at Michigan Tech we do an event called Fall Nighter. All of the Student Organizations use this to get their name out and to recruit new members.

The groups set up booths inside.
This year they changed the requirements. Instead of just having informational booths you need to have an activity.

We usually make friendship bracelets. We hardly attract attention with this and the girls that do come to the table are there the whole time. I feel that when those girls are in the seats that other girls can't sit down and chat either.

I need ideas!! HELP!

I would suggest cookie decorating. Get an anchor shaped cookie cutter (http://www.thecookiecuttershop.com/n...utical27.shtml is one that's cheap) and get green and yellow and white icing. Girls can decorate and then eat the cookie. This is a good activity for several reasons:

1). College kids love free food. Girls will come just to make a cookie and you can hook them that way.
2). It's related to our sorority so it's partially informational.
3). It's easy, so you can make the craft and talk at the same time.
4). It's relatively cheap - the cookie cutter I put above is only 2 bucks, and you can make them in the house ahead of time for pretty cheap. You don't need a huge budget, and for your size house you probably don't want to spend a ton of money.