Youth Court Activities and Functions
Following are suggested youth court activities and functions. Not all ideas listed will work with your court. Remember the list is meant to help you generate ideas.
For a successful event, plan far enough in advance and invite all youth court members. If you need help, ask your local court officers.
Topics:
- Educational/Informative
- Entertainment
- Miscellaneous
- Activities not covered by liability insurance
- Activities not eligible for $3 allowance
Educational/Informative
- Arts and crafts classes
- Art show
- Bus trip to museum or historical site
- Sport event
- Changing patterns of rural America
- Community planning and redevelopment
- Craft and hobby exposition
- Dance instruction (folk, ballroom, etc.)
- Drug awareness program
- Ecology: Man and his world
- First aid refresher
- Fraternal week/Flag Day dinner program
- Human relations theme programs
- Language classes (ethnic or sign)
- Mini music festival (selected emphasis)
- Monthly birthday party
- Parades (COF-sponsored only)
- Patriotic emphasis
- Photo and Poster Contests
- Pollution control and you
- Pro-life seminars
- Recycling information
- Sewing or knitting club
- Spelling contests
- Travel fairs
Note: Other activities will be paid at our discretion. Payment
will not be allowed for activities held during school hours.
Entertainment
- Amateur night
- April foolishness
- Audience sing-along
- Barbershop quartet
- Barn/square dance
- Bicycle outing
- Boat excursion
- Championship liar contest
- Chess/Checkers Tournament
- Christmas (family affair)
- Costume party
- Everybody's birthday party
- Father-son banquet
- Folk singing
- Future times party
- Halloween party
- Hawaiian luau
- Hobo party
- Ice cream social
- Line dance
- Membership dance
- Miniature golf/putt-putt tournament/outing
- Mother-daughter banquet
- Nationality/ethnic parties
- New member dinner
- Night at the movies
- Organized trips for members
- Patriotic theme
- Picnic
- Pizza party
- Plays
- Pots and pans band
- Recognition night
- Scavenger hunt
- Sight-seeing
- St. Joseph Table/party
- St. Patrick's Day party
- Skits
- Specialty dinners: German, Italian, Mexican, Polynesian, Smorgasbord, etc.
- Sports events
- Style show/luncheon
- Thanksgiving theme
- Theater dinner party
- Treasure hunt
- Valentine's Day party
- Wiener roast
Note: Other activities will be paid at our discretion. Payment
will not be allowed for activities held during school hours.
Miscellaneous
- Aid to needy
- Aluminum can/recycling collection
- Bingo parties
- Blood drives
- Card parties
- Easter Egg hunt
- Family bicycle trips
- Family cookouts
- Field trips: Nature/bird watch
- Movie parties
- paper drive
- Trip to the circus
- Trip to the zoo
Note: Other activities will be paid at our discretion. Payment
will not be allowed for activities held during school hours.
Activities not covered by liability insurance
- Any activity where alcohol is served
- Archery
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Bocce ball/lawn bowling
- Bowling
- Bungee jumping
- Candlelight Bowling
- Canoeing
- Duck pin bowling
- Fencing
- Fishing derby
- Football
- Golf
- Gun club/trap shoot
- Handball
- Hay rides
- Hiking
- Hockey
- Horseshoe Tournament
- Ice fishing
- Ice skating
- Kick ball
- Matching Funds events
- Memorial Mass
- Motorbike/ATV
- Parachute jumping
- Rafting/tubing
- River boar rides
- Rock climbing
- Roller skating party
- Rowing club
- Skateboarding
- Ski club
- Sky diving
- Snowmobile rally
- Soccer
- Softball games
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Track and field events
- Volleyball
Activities not covered by $3 allowance
- Anniversary parties
- Election of officers
- Matching Funds events
- Memorial Mass
- Restaurant/movie certificates
- Sunday Mass
- Weddings
- Welcome Sunday
- Volunteer work
Note: Other activities will be paid at our discretion. Payment
will not be allowed for activities held during school hours.
Updated 2/2008