EXPERIENTIAL OPTIONS

Switch: At the Movies 4 WEEKS

These options are intended to give you general, creative-element ideas for your experience. Feel free to use them or not, or simply allow them to spawn your own thoughts and ideas.

SERIES IDEAS Have students and leaders dress up. Decorate your lobbies and auditorium. Decorate the outside of your building and your lobby in a movie awards theme with a red carpet, Switch: At the Movies backdrop where students can take pictures with their phones, or have props each week that students can use to take pictures with: movie cameras, formals, paparazzi, etc.

Serve popcorn in the auditorium and/or have a concession stand outside in the lobby with popcorn, soda, and candy.

Dress leaders up as movie characters and walk around and/or even have the character emcee the night.

Have students create their own movies and play them each week during hang out and walk in.

Instagram reenactments from favorite movie scenes and show on screen.

Play movie trivia games.

Use #lcswitch, #switchlc, #switchatm, #jurassicworld, #insideout, #scorchtrials, #antman

WEEKLY IDEAS JURASSIC WORLD Theme night: dress like your favorite movie character. Pre Experience (in lobby): Have cardboard cutout dinosaurs (behind fences) with trees etc. to create the park. Also, have butcher paper in lobbies and have students draw and create their own super dinosaur. Game: “Blind Art Gallery” (Ties into the point of Jurassic World, and is a fun way to illustrate creating masterpieces.) Have a few students come up to the front and give them each a poster board or canvas to draw on. Blindfold them and then give them something to draw. They have to draw it on the canvas or poster board the best they can while blindfolded. Let the audience decide who the best blind artist is. Make sure their canvas or poster board is upright for the crowd to see as they’re drawing it. Possible ideas of things for them to draw would be: the Switch logo, an animal, a house, themselves, etc.

INSIDE OUT Theme night: Color night. Everything you wear should be all one color. Represents how the emotion characters had different colors. Pre Experience (in lobby): Put up cutouts of different Emojis around the lobby. Game: Emoji Game (Ties into the point of Inside Out.) Put up a combination of Emojis on screen have student guess what the combo spells out. An example would be: Sun emoji + glasses emoji. The answer would be sunglasses. That’s an easy one, they can get much harder. For ideas Google: “The Emoji Game.”

EXPERIENTIAL OPTIONS

MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS Pre Experience (in lobby): Setup a maze for students to go through. Game: “Human Knot” (Helps illustrate helping others get out of a trial.) Get in to groups of about 12-15—each group should have exact same numbers. Arrange group members in a circle, standing shoulder to shoulder. Tell everyone to put their right hand up in the air, and then grab the hand of someone across the circle from them. Everyone then puts their left hand up in the air and grabs the hand of a different person. Check to make sure that everyone is holding the hands of two different people and that they’re not holding hands with someone directly next to them. Tell group members to untangle themselves to make a circle without breaking the chain of hands. If group members break the chain, they need to start over. Team with the fastest time wins.

ANT-MAN Theme Night: Dress up like a superhero. Pre Experience (in lobby): Create your own secret-identity superhero mask station. Game: “Ant Trivia” Gather interesting facts and information about ants, and hold a trivia game show seeing how much students know about ants. Example: Question: “How long can ants live?” A. 1 season, B. 1 Year, C. 15 years, D. 30 years Answer: 30 years.