Walk to School Week with different events each day
Walk to School Month with students tracking their walking and biking days for incentives
Incentives can be simple; The Golden Shoe Award-spray paint an old sneaker gold, and let the classroom or grade that has the most walkers/bikers, display the award for the day/week.
Distribute Fit for Kids stickers to walkers/bikers. Contact info@makingkanefitforkids.org to get stickers for your school.
Let the winner(s) share why they like walking to school during morning announcements
Walk to School Wednesdays, every Wednesday during the Fall and Spring
Wacky Winter Walking Wednesdays-JB Nelson sponsored Walk to School every Wednesday in February with even higher participation than in October
Sponsor International Bike to School Day, May 6, 2015. Details are available at www.walkbiketoschool.org
Challenge your students to raise money for the PTO through a Fitness Challenge.
- Goal: Run, walk or swim a mile a day
- Get financial sponsors for miles earned
- Work toward class, school and community goals.
Start a Walking School Bus
Check out www.walkingschoolbus.org for more information. “A walking school bus is a group of children walking to school with one or more adults. If that sounds simple, it is, and that’s part of the beauty of the walking school bus. It can be as informal as two families taking turns walking their children to school to as structured as a route with meeting points, a timetable and a regularly rotated schedule of trained volunteers.
A variation on the walking school bus is the bicycle train, in which adults supervise children riding their bikes to school. The flexibility of the walking school bus makes it appealing to communities of all sizes with varying needs
Parents (in Kane County, too) often cite safety issues as one of the primary reasons they are reluctant to allow their children to walk to school. Providing adult supervision may help reduce those worries for families who live within walking or bicycling distance to school.” Courtesy of walkingschoolbus.org
Check out www.walkingschoolbus.org for more information.