Simple Refreshments
- Bring your favorite snack
- Coffee, tea and dessert
- Cookie exchange
- Fruit and cheese plates
- Hot dogs and brats
- Build your own ice cream sundaes
- Lemonade and cookies
- Mini-donut stand
- Popcorn
- Potluck
- Pretzels and pop
- Root beer floats
- Watermelon
Contribute to Your Community
- Beautify a common area
- Collect for a food shelter
- Nominate a block club or individual for a crime prevention award
- Plan a fall clean-up or bulb planting
- Community impact statements or petitions
- Presentation by an arborist
- Sign all ages up for library cards
- Use email to communicate more with your block club
- Voter registration drive
- Cover graffiti
Group Conversations and Mixers
- Neighborhood of the Year Award
- Block email list
- Block history stories
- Find block volunteers
- Have an ice breaker
- Interview politicians running for office
- Neighborhood trivia game with prizes
- Photos from past block parties
- Share ideas and accomplishments
- Skills swap
- Talk about crime concerns
- Update block list for people and pets
- Update block contact list
- Welcome new residents
All-Ages Activities
- Book exchange
- Book swap
- Build a milk carton boat
- Cake walk
- Celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, etc.
- Dance
- Lawn mower beauty contest with parade
- Ring toss contest
- Live music
- Movies
- Organize a book club
- Paint an OLD
- Parade
- Plant exchange
- Prizes
- Races: minnow, cotton ball on a spoon
- Recognize kids' accomplishments
- Scavenger hunt
- Sing-along/Karaoke
- Sports
- Storytelling
- Talent Show
- Tour of the gardens on the block
- Water balloon fights
Activities for Youth
- Bicycle parade or rodeo
- Chalk art
- Coloring or maze sheet
- Dime/Penny guess
- Duck pond
- Face painting
- Games
- Kiddie jump (moon walk)
- Create a banner or mural
- Piñata
- Riding bikes
- Scavenger hunt
- Skits
- Talent show