2024-2025 Required Activities

What are Required Activites?

Any activity or event that you schedule or support service offered to our group can be a service task. 

All of the activities offered through Home Grown Kids are Service Tasks that members have volunteered to organize. We ask that all member families complete two service tasks for the year, one in the fall and one in the spring. Some examples of popular Required Activities are planning a field trip, organizing a club, teaching a class, or planning a special event. 

General Guidelines for Required Activies:

1. There will be no monetary compensation for your time, however you may collect a fee for tickets, materials, books, etc. 

2. If your Required Activity is a scheduled activity, you are responsible for posting your event to the calendar and announcing it in the group forum. 

3. Field trips: communicate with the field trip site, determine minimum/maximum group sizes, collecting and making applicable fees and payments

4. Clubs: Must meet at least 3 times in a semester, supervise all club activities, find club meeting space

5. Classes: Must meet for at least 1 hour, plan all curriculum, directly teach class material, find class meeting space

6. Special Events: coordinate and plan activities for event, select and secure event site (may be part of a team of planners depending on size of event)

7. Other service: examples include producing a group yearbook or coordinating ministry outreach

To help us help you to prepare and plan your service tasks, we ask that you provide the following information. Please describe TWO tasks that you want to complete for this year and at least one additional alternative task in case the others don't work out. Provide as much detail as possible. For example, if you want to plan a field trip, state where and approximately when. List at least one task for fall and one for spring. Feel free to plan an Required Activity during the summer months! See the Required Activity Ideas page for more inspiration. A board member will contact you to discuss your ideas, and provide you with any support you may need, including how to get started planning a field trip or how to find a meeting space for an activity.

Examples:

Field trip - Audubon Center for Birds of Prey - October

Field trip - Trader Joe’s/ grocery store - February/March

Club - elementary crafts - fall, first Mondays of September, October, & November

Class - water color painting for beginners - spring

Special Event - Pi Day party - March

If necessary, very general ideas are acceptable, such as:

Field trip