Looking for fresh Chapter Program ideas?
- Accessorizing your home
- Accessorizing your wardrobe with scarves and jewelry
- Alpha Delta Kappa badge – what does it mean, how do we wear it
- Alpha Delta Kappa videos: membership, Project SAVE, etc.
- Alpha Delta Kappa bingo
- Altruistic – representatives from local charities shared their goals and needs
- Altruistic - visited the community program the chapter supported
- American Cancer Society – speaker
- At risk students – characteristics and strategies to help them
- Back to school shower for teachers in a brand new school
- Baby shower for NICU unit in hospital or homeless shelter or for a sister
- Bead-making bracelets for self or for altruistic sales
- Birdwatching
- Birthday party for an elderly sister
- Birthday cake decorating-grouped by month of birthday and have outside “judge”-team building and donated cakes to nursing homes
- Books for needy
- Book sharing, book studies
- Books, coloring, puzzle and fun activities packaged with crayons and given to the family court section to use for children in waiting area
- Bottle Auction-wrap anything in a bottle-silent bids
- Bought and read books at a day care center
- Breast Cancer Awareness
- Bring one of your baby photos, guess who the photos belong to
- Bullying prevention
- Candy making
- Card making – make and take for yourself or for altruistic sales
- Children’s Literature – what’s new
- Christmas dinner theatre
- Christmas traditions from around the world
- Coffee tasting
- Community meeting-at the end of each year have a community meeting with entire chapter to discuss what was and wasn’t a success for your year-programs, projects, etc.
- Computer lab, how to log on the new website, scavenger hunt
- Computer commerce – e-bay, craigslist
- Cookie exchange
- Cooking with herbs
- Covered international dish dinner
- Craft night
- Crafts – stamping to make cards or other project
- Create a power point slide show that highlights AΔK founders, purpose, leadership, activities, and world understanding. The show could be presented at a Membership Tea and also used for Fraternity Education.
- Decorating tips for your home
- District President spoke about Alpha Delta Kappa
- Education reporter from local newspaper or TV station
- Educational reforms and update
- Exchange lesson plans
- February meeting includes a breakfast and craft time where members make cards for local nursing homes
- Feng Shui
- Field trip to see displays of gingerbread houses, Christmas lights displays
- Field trips to local museums, historical homes, parks
- Financial planning tips
- Fitness/Get in shape and stay there
- Founders’ Day Program
- Food Bank and their needs
- Flower arranging
- Fraternity education program
- Games – such as Alpha Delta Kappa bingo, jeopardy, bunko
- Gang
- Get Acquainted Meeting – What is unique about you?
- Habitat for Humanity – speaker, upcoming projects
- Hardware Store – tools we should have and how to do simple repairs
- HEALTHY- stimulation brain activities and exercises
- Herbal remedies
- Highlights from State Convention or SER Conference or International Convention
- History of chapter, state, Alpha Delta Kappa – use videos from HQ, have sisters share knowledge and experiences
- Hobbies – sharing what you like to do
- Holiday crafts and decorating
- Holiday homes tour
- Holiday program, musical performance, or theater performance
- Home Parties
- Homeless shelter – speaker
- Honor a sister (surprise working sisters at their schools with balloons, gift card to say we appreciate you)
- Hospice
- Identity Theft and how to protect your identities and accounts
- Initiation of new members
- Installation of new officers
- Internet safety
- International travels – members share travel experiences
- International travel tips
- iPad Technology presentation
- Issues in education
- Joint meeting with other area chapters
- Komen for the Cure speaker
- Lawyer and preparing wills, tips in helping aging parents
- Learning styles
- Legislative updates
- Living wills
- Local author
- Local artist with drawing or painting lesson
- Local history- contact Chamber of Commerce in community/city for speakers
- Local Superintendent talks about new initiatives
- Local winery tour and tasting, talk about foods that complement wines
- Look your best – makeup, skincare, hair styles
- Massage therapy
- Mentoring in our schools
- Meet your sisters….social networking and team building-supply sheet with a one liner clue and you must identify that sister (can be used for S/P/N, regional and International sisters as well)
- National Board Certification
- Newsletter tips
- Nutrition
- Observe Alpha Delta Kappa Month by conducting a "Pink Day" fundraiser in recognition of Komen for the Cure. The event was featured in the local newspaper with pictures of participants at each school.
- “Off the Wall”- bring an item off your wall at home and talk about it at a chapter meeting
- Opera
- Other cultures, trips and artifacts shared
- Packing tips for travel
- Pampered Chef Demonstration, part of sales could go to scholarship fund
- Panera Pals- quarterly meetings on Saturday mornings just for coffee and sisterhood during the summer
- Performing groups in the area
- Pharmacist and medicines
- Physical therapist and tips on how to stay flexible
- Pledge ceremony
- Police Officer- women’s self defense
- Pot luck dinner to benefit Relay for Life
- Pottery making
- Pottery place where you can put designs on plates, bowls, etc.
- Professional development-CEU’s offering and extended to non A∆K teachers
- Prom dresses
- Publicity do’s and don’ts-invite local reporter
- Quilting stories and history, how to make quilt squares
- Reading remediation
- Recipe party
- Recognition of silver sisters, special awards and achievements
- Recycling/Composting/Think Green!
- Rededication ceremony
- Reflections about the new first grade reading program
- Regional Governor’s School presentation
- Relay for Life – speaker, upcoming events
- Retirement issues
- Santa Soiree theme for the December Meeting
- Scholarship recipient(s) speak about plans
- School Bags for needy
- School Board update
- School counselor – dealing with parent/child issues, teen issues, problems
- Scrapbooking
- Self defense
- Silent Auction
- Singing and refreshments for a local nursing home
- Smartboard or Promethean Interactive white board
- Spa night
- Speaker- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- Spring landscape gardening
- State Officers/State Committee Chairman to speak
- Storyteller
- Stress relief
- Supporting new teachers in schools
- Supporting local shelters-for abused women and animals
- Support the Troops- homemade goods and letters
- Tai Chi
- Tea ceremony
- Teacher of the Year celebration
- Technology committee filmed various activities and meetings for a DVD that was taken to each school with information on AK to be viewed in the teacher's lounge by faculty.
- Technology updates and learning session-learn from each other (iphone/ipad, etc..)
- Therapy dogs
- Trip to State Capitol to meet with our legislators
- Travel tips
- Visit a greenhouse, botanical garden
- Volunteering in your community- either have a speaker come from a local agency or sisters can share what activities they participate in and develop ways they can help others
- Wardrobe mixing and matching
- Wellness
- Women of Note- famous women/Alpha Delta Kappa sisters/local women
- Women’s health issues
- Women’s Shelter
- Work Session for state convention: centerpieces, favors, items to sell
- World Understanding
- Writing grants/how to get money for your class/program
- Yoga
- Zumba