Holiday and Celebration Ideas
- Floor Recognition Day
- Designate a special day dedicated to recognizing your
floor. Serve refreshments, play games, and watch movies.
Birthdays
- Balloons
- Whenever one of the residents has a birthday, blow
up balloons saying Happy Birthday and tie them outside the
resident's door.
- Boards
- Each month put up a birthday board displaying items of
interest such as the names of both residents and famous people
having birthdays that month.
- Cake Service
- Since many students are away from home, each section can set
up a fund to order a birthday cake to be presented on the evening
of the birthday. This can be tradition in the section.
- Carnations
- Every time a person in the section has a birthday, send the
person a carnation as a gift from everyone else.
- Door Decoration Committee
- Form a committee to decorate the doors of resident's rooms
on their birthdays. Decorate the doors at night so that the birthday
person will be surprised.
Christmas
- Dear Santa
- Hang up a large poster on the hall or in the lobby with "Dear Santa"
on the top. Invite residents to write down their holiday wishes on it for
all to see. You'll find some peoples' wishes to be crazy, funny, or heart
warming.
Valentine's Day
- Broken Hearts Mended
- On Valentine's Day, have the RA place a broken heart
cut out of construction paper with a partial verse written
on it in all of his/her resident's mailboxes. The first person
to find the floor member that has the other half of their
heart wins.
- Happy Heart Day
- Exchange cards, gifts, and candy with each other to
show suitemates that you care about them.
- Poem Exchange Day
- Have people exchange their favorite poems with each other.
A good way to make sure no one is left out on this special day.
- Secret Cupid
- Draw names to give someone a secret cupid for Valentine's Day.
Send that person secret messages, flowers, candy, etc. On Valentine's
Day, get together to discover who was each person's secret cupid.