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Team and Event Themes/Names


	rflvolunteer Posts: 363 Joined: 2006-08-08 One of the most frequent questions on the old cancer.org discussion board was for team and event theme ideas - for example, your event theme could be "The Nifty 50 United States" (like the kids' song), and each team could have a state for their theme... There are less and more complicated versions, and some events don’t really have an event theme at all that determines what "topic" team themes/names should be. In any case, below are some Event Themes and Team Themes from the last several years of posts n cancer.org - hope this is helpful! ------------------ EVENT THEMES - And any group of team themes down below could be your event theme… For example, your event theme could be The Great Wilderness, and people can pick Animal and Nature themes! · 50 States – This way, each team can have a state as their theme (thanks to the Westlake Relay For Life): - see 50 States under Team Themes below for ideas for every state!!!! · Anniversary Themes – These are ideas to use if your event is reaching its 5^th, 10^th, or more anniversary, these are great ideas! See also Time Capsule themes. o 10 Years Closer to the Cure – Have your teams have “cure” and “cancer related” themes… This one has a lot of flexibility! (thanks to Mary Ann Hocking) o 10 Years of Love, Hope, Relay – Have your teams have Love or Hope related themes…. (thanks to Mary Ann Hocking) o "10 Years Of Working For A Cure" - You can have each team have a theme that reflects where they work... For example, I used to work in a dept. that made Powdered cosmetics, so we called ourselves the Powder Puffs, and decorated ourselves with cosmetic puffs... Get the idea? (From Ramesh Moorthy, Baltimore MD) o "10 Years of Dancing for A Cure" - You could have "dancing themes" for each team. (From Ramesh Moorthy, Baltimore MD) o “Happy Birthday, Relay!” – Thanks to ‘the4blairs’ for the inspiration for this theme! Dress in birthday hats, have a birthday cake, etc. and party it up! o “Decade in Review” - It may be fun to do a decade type theme highlighting such years as the 50s, 70s, or 80s. You can do a "Decade in Review" highlighting the last ten years of your Relay. For cancer education, maybe you could do a "Key Developments of Cancer research within the last decade." Just some ideas. :) (thanks to HopeInLindy) o See also “Time Capsule” themes · Beach Party! – see Beach themes below under team themes · Butterflies, Beaches, and Buffett (as in Jimmy Buffet) – Thanks to Kerri M. and the Greater Auglaize Relay For Life! - http://www.auglaizerelay.com/ for sharing this great idea! – “Our theme for this year is Butterflies, Beaches, & Buffet (as in Jimmy Buffet) Cancer Take Flight On Butterfly Wings Tonight. We are having a live butterfly release at opening & closing (weather permitting). I am sending you a sample of our tickets. I bought butterfly pins off a couple of eBay stores so that the person gets a pin to wear & keep & if they come to Relay they receive a live butterfly to "release cancer" "in honor of" "in memory of" or just for fun. We are planning on having Jimmy Buffet music, butterfly bracelets, sand for the kids to play in, coconut bra contest, plus anything that anyone can think of! We had a committee member who's son had a luau wedding reception, she got all the decorations from that for us to use. We will sell lei's also. Our survivor dinner will be a luau (held in March or April) to hopefully excite our survivors about Relay. Feel free to use any of our ideas for your web site. My husband, best friend & I came up with the theme. We will read this poem at our opening. Butterfly Indian Legend If anyone desires a wish to come true they must first Capture a butterfly and whisper that wish to it. Since a butterfly can make no sound, the butterfly can not reveal The wish to anyone but the Great Spirit who sees and hears all. In gratitude for giving the beautiful butterfly its freedom, The Great Spirit will always grant the wish. So, according to legend, by making a wish and giving the butterfly its freedom, The wish will be taken to the heavens to be granted” · Carnival For A Cure – Have all your teams have a carnival/circus theme!!! See Animal and Circus related themes below! (thanks to mamamo777!) You can sell stuffed animals to raise money (if that fits with your local rules! Please check with your committee/staff!) · Cartoons/ Cartooning For A Cure / Let’s Toon Out Cancer – See Cartooning below (thanks to many, including IRelay4Mom) · The Countries Of the World – Thanks to many, including IRelay4Mom) · Cruisin’ For A Cure – Have a “car” theme for your event… Teams could use any of the car related themes below under the ideas for team themes, such as “Little Red Corvette”, “Car Wash For A Cure”, “Car Bashers For A Cure”, · Dancing For A Cure – Build your entertainment and team themes around Dancing… · Games (Cancer is Not A Game!) – Build your event around each team having a “Games” Theme (See below) · Happily Ever After – Use Fairytale themes, and make your event slogan “Making the Fairytale of a Cure Come True!” · Holidays/ There is No Holiday From Cancer – Have holiday related themes (see below) for campsites and have an overall “holiday” theme to your event · Las Vegas/ Vegas/ Vegas Lights! – Have Vegas be your theme – hold Vegas style fundraising games, etc…. See Las Vegas below for more ideas! · “Lights, Camera, Relay For A Cure!” – A great event theme from the Santa Maria Relay For Life… Make your event about the movies – show movies all night (borrow a projector and hook it up to a VCR), have each team have a movie theme, have “STAR POINTS” (spirit points), have a “STAR SEARCH” talent contest, and so on! · Movies/ Night At the Movies (thanks to Cove Relay For Life & IRelay4Mom) – Use the list of movie themes below (go to the “Team Themes” section below, alphabetically down to Movie Themes) You could use one of the following movies for your overall event theme too, if you wanted: o King Kong o Star Wars o Lord Of The Rings o Harry Potter · Movies - "A Night at the Movies - Watch-A-Thon For A Cure" – Have Movies be your Relay theme, and do just that! - Watch movies while your aren't walking. Offer folks the whole 9 yards - popcorn, movie candy, people dressed as Movie Ushers (Have one team's theme be "Ushering for a cure" and have them all dressed as ushers! ... Could be very funny...). Have three different locations with screens and a projector that connected to laptops playing different movies, and serve up some fun! Have each team have a movie theme to go with your event theme (see the Movie Themes section below). Heard of an event which did something like this, but I don’t have a name or contact info :< - if you know who it was, please let me know (rflvolunteer@gmail.com). · Movies - Win An Oscar for A Cure – Dress up like you are movie stars and at the Oscars, and make your “baton” for the person walking something that looks like an Oscar Statue/Trophy. Put out a red carpet to your tent. As you walk around the track, have little pins or trophies to give others if they can answer a cancer control question right. · Nursery Rhymes (Once upon a cure) – An event theme that can use the “Fantasy” and “Fairytale” themes below! · Patriotic/ USA For A Cure ./Stars and Stripes for A Cure - (thanks to IRelay4Mom) - use the Patriotic Themes below · Saddle UP For A Cure! – Thanks to Jill – A great Western Theme for your event! · Sitcoms / Comedy For A Cure – Have an event themed around Comedy… get standup comedians (or even one that has had cancer), have improv all night and vote for the best improv standup comedian at your event… Have Funny Themed Laps… Show Comedy movies all night on a TV. Have another for Children’s movies, showing Disney movies (Funny ones). Have every campsite have a comedy theme (thanks to IRelay4Mom, and R. Moorthy Baltimore, MD) · Sports Theme (overall for event) – Have a “Sports For A Cure” Overall theme and let each team have a sports theme o Baseball § All Stars – DO it like the Football one that is right below – declare your survivors to be “All-Stars”… Have your caregivers be “All Star Relief Pitchers” for providing relief and support to patients… and give “All Star Designated Hitter” Awards to family and friends who have helped care for cancer survivors and those we have lost… Have fun with it! (R. Moorthy Baltimore MD) o Football § Most Valuable Player – Have your event be football themed (you can look at decoration ideas under “Sports” below)… Hand out awards for Most Valuable Players – give one to every survivor you meet on the track, give “caregiver awards” to caregivers, and so on… Make it fun and entertaining! (R. Moorthy Baltimore MD) · States – see 50 States · Take Me Out To the Ballgame – Each team could dress up as a Major League Baseball team or use one of the Sports themes below. · Time Capsule Themes – These are a list of diverse ideas that basically “take you back in time” · Under the Sea – Have Ocean/Boating/Sea related themes for your campsites in your event · Wild Wild West! – A great theme from the Lebanon County Relay For Life – thanks to Laura for sharing – “The Relay For Life of Lebanon County is taking an exciting trip back in time for Relay 2006! We're going back to a time when horses and cowboys roamed the desert free. When buffalo were plentiful, and the skies were always clear. Back to a time when Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Wild Bill Hickok marshaled the territory from Illinois to Nevada. Back to a time when there were no cars and no nuclear plants, and the ozone protected us from sun radiation better. Back when cancer was accountable for far fewer deaths than in today’s' world. On behalf of the Lebanon Planning Committee, and our Honorary Co-Chairs Tiffany Bare, Heidi Eck, and Renato Rivera, we invite you to grab your western duds, and jump on board the chuck wagon! Come along and join us at Cedar Crest High School on May 19-20, 2006, as we take this wonderful trip back through time to the Wild Wild West!” What a great idea!!!!! · Zoo! Or Life’s A Zoo Or Animals For A Cure! - And one way to make your event theme even more fun is to announce it at your kickoff – here is a great idea from Rock4aCure: “We save our theme announcement for kick off! Our committee dresses in character for whatever the theme is. Last year was the Fabulous 50's, and we were the pink ladies, and got pink lady jackets, and pony tails, white sneaks, the boys were the t-birds, wore jeans, white tee rolled up, greased hair, and work tbird jackets. We served food of the era white castle cheeseburgers, and floats we had a relay store, registration table, and then we had speakers and introduced our committee. We did it for the first time on a Friday night, and we got a great turn out! We advertised a soc hop type theme, and played 50's music. It was allot of fun!!! The kids were great, they got up and sang, and we even had Elvis perform too!! ELVIS was in the building!! :)” (from http://www.relayforlife.org) TEAM THEMES · 50 States! – This is a great event as well as team theme! Have your event theme be 50 States, and have each team pick a state! There are a few approaches – 1) you could have stuff about the state – as much as you can think of – if you visit http://www.50states.com/ there is info on every state!!!! 2) use the sports teams in that state – Look up baseball, football, basketball and other teams – college or pro – for example – New York – Yankees, Ohio – Ohio State University, and so on!!!! Pick a state that a person on your team is from and is enthusiastic about their teams!!! 3) Pick a state theme and do everything around that – here are some examples: o Alabama – Alabama’s current state theme is unforgettable (like the Ray Charles song)… Play the song, and have pictures up of survivors that your team knows, and people who have lost the fight – and how they are unforgettable! o Alaska – Have your theme be the “great outdoors” –have a dog (if they are allowed) pulling a pretend sled, have cut out mountains, fake cross country skiing, fake snow, and more! o Arizona- Have lots of pictures of Arizona, (like the cliffs and so on), have a stretch of desert, etc…The Grand Canyon is there , too – that could be part of your theme! o California – Build your theme around San Francisco (Cable cars, the Golden Gate Bridge) or Hollywood (movie stuff), etc. o Colorado – Play “Rocky Mountain High” – have a “backdrop” of the Rockies, and so on!!!! o Delaware – “The First State” – Do a theme around lots of “firsts”!!!!! The first state… The first person to sign the Constitution, the first flight (The Wright brothers)… o Florida – could be Sunshine or Jimmy Buffet o Georgia – Georgia Peach! – Have all sorts of food made from peaches as fundraisers!!!! Dress your team in peach outfits (t-shirts with big peaches on them or something), have the peach color be your site color, and so on!!!! o Hawaii - "Hula for a cure" – see “Hawaiian Themes!!!” below (alphabetically). o Idaho – Have Potatoes be your theme – have food with potatoes and offer them for a donation as a fundraiser…!!!!! Have your whole team dress up as spuds. o Kansas – Do a Wizard of Oz theme!!! Have a Dorothy on your team, a Toto, and so on!!!!!! J o Kentucky - “we are a big horse state. like Kentucky Derby stuff. We always call that "The Run for the Roses" so maybe you can do something with that and maybe get garlands of roses to use for your campsite and all your walkers wear them around their neck..you can the artificial ones at wal mart or something really cheap…”– thanks to angiemc1! o Louisiana – Build your team theme around the Mardi Gras! And New Orleans – Pass out beads on the track each lap, and so on! Also see “Mardi Gras”!!! below. o Maryland – Here are some themes: “I'm Feeling Crabby”, “Crabbing for A Cure” (have a boat, catch "fake" crabs), “Fishing For A Cure”, “Baltimore Orioles for A Cure” (order Orioles T-shirts, etc, baseball hats, etc.). J o Massachusetts – Have a Boston Tea Party theme!!! Hold high tea at the event as a fundraiser, have a fake boat.. etc. J o Michigan – could be Go Blue! (University Of Michigan) o Mississippi – Have your theme be the “Great Mississippi”!!! Have things around the river, river boats, Huck Finn, and more!!! o Nevada – This one is easy J - have a Las Vegas theme! o New Mexico – Have a “Santa Fe’ Tehme… o New York – Have your team theme be “New York, New York” with Frank Sinatra music and the whole 9 yards!!!! o New Jersey – Have an Atlantic City theme… o Ohio – Show your team spirit and build a Ohio State University Theme!!!! - OSU, Columbus, Ohio o Oklahoma – Do your theme around the play “Oklahoma!” o Texas – Make your theme around the Alamo and San Antonio! Have someone dress up like Davey Crockett!!! o Washington – Do your theme around Washington apples… o Wisconsin – Do your theme around Cheese and Cheese heads (maybe the Green Bay Packers and cheese heads?) · Advocacy Themes o Celebration on the Hill – Reenact a part of Celebration on the Hill – have a picture of the capitol (if you or someone you know went, get pictures), and “advocate” with your other event members to call their local representative etc about cancer related issues, insurance issues, etc. o Lobbying for a Cure - “advocate” with your other event members to call their local representative etc about issues – whether insurance, research $$, etc. · Air Flight Related Themes – See Transportation Themes · Angel Themes – see Religious themes · Animal Themes o Bear Themes § Bears For A Cure § Bears Hibernating For A Cure § Big News Bears For A Cure - We're Closer to A Cure! § Cure Care Bears! § Bearly Closer To A Cure § Big Top Bears For A Cure or Big Top Bears Don’t Hibernate – See Circus Themes (thanks ClayCoTx!) o Beauty and the Beast, or Beastmasters – “This is something my daddy came up with the year he passed away. It is the Beauty and the Beast - The Beauty of life is beating the Beast called cancer…. we grill hamburgers all night so we are set off to the side and everyone sees us.” (Thanks to 1dadsgirl for this!)… Additional ideas for this: you could 1. Dress some folks as beasts (give them signs as different forms of cancer, and have a "tamer"... You could make it a doctor/scientist type who "tames the beasts". 2. More traditional - beasts and a lion-tamer type, but that strikes us as a little more risqué... :) o Bee Hives – Dress in 50’s clothing and get your hair done in bee hives. Decorate your tent in bee hive colors or go with Yellow and Black! (thanks to the Lewiston-Porter Relay For Life!) o “Bye-You To Cancer!”, “Bayou For A Cure” Or “Fishing For A Cure” Or ???? – Use a swamp theme and decorate in fishing stuff. You could also have moss and some old cypress wood (5/18/04 - Thanks to Jaime lavigne for this great idea!) o Cancer Survivor- Kenyan Safari – Set up a Kenyan Safari at your campsite with the slogan “ Cancer Survivor it's not a game, it's life!” – Decorate with African Safari hats, camouflage, and fake pistols that shoot out flags –write “CURE CANCER!” on the flags. Put some straw or something over your tent to make it look more “Grasslands”… It can be a play on Survivor the TV show… (Thanks to Zoomzoom, 5/04) o Cats § Cure Cats – Dress as cats, tails and all… Make your tent into a comfy place for cats to lie around… Have cat food bowls (with food you can eat), etc. (Thanks to curebear88!) o Cheetahs Leaping towards a Cure (Frogs, Leopards – also used for Angels – see Religious Themes...) – You could be any # of different creatures leaping towards a cure… Also used for Angels - Decorate your site with angel wings and clouds, have wings on your luminaria (decorate your bags to look like angels), and recognize your survivors by giving them angel's wings pins... o Dogs § "Canines Cruising For A Cure" § "Doggies Cruisin' For A Cure" - all wear bulldog masks and bring a cool car to the event that you put on display... § "Doggies Driving For A Cure" - Have pictures around your site of dogs driving cars :) o Monkeys § Going Bananas For A Cure – Dress as Monkeys and have lots of bananas around your campsite! Thanks to Stacey T. for this great idea! o Horses § “Betting On A Cure” – A Horse racing related theme § “Horsing Around For Life” – Dress as Horsies, and decorate your campsite as a Ranch. If you can, your team could also have a fundraiser at a horse form where people could get horse rides for a donation! (thanks to Brooksie84 for for the idea) § “Derbying For A Cure” – A Kentucky Derby/horse racing related idea! § “Jockeying For A Cure” § ‘Racing For A Cure” § “Riding For A Cure” § “Running Wild For A Cure” o Make Cancer Extinct – “We just completed our Relay in Ohio. Our theme was "Make Cancer Extinct". We had a 12 foot dinosaur at our tent. We made dinosaur cookies. The kids dressed in dinosaur costumes. The adults dressed in Caveman outfits. It was great fun...we won for best campsite.” (Thanks to Traci for this great idea!) o Moo-ving For A Cure – Have a cow on a banner, dress as cows, whatever fun cow related themes you can think of!!!! Then Moo-ve cancer out! (thanks to Stacy and the Vienna Relay For Life) o The Pink Flamingos – A Great team theme where you decorate your site at the event with Pink Flamingos and use the Pink Flamingo fundraiser (where people pay to have the Pink Flamingo Flock removed from their yard J - make sure you check that people are ok with doing it!!!) You can even get them at http://www.thepinkflamingo.com ! Thanks to many for the inspiration for this including Jeanne J., thepinkflamingo.com, and more! o Relay Angels - Decorate your site with pictures of angels with halos, etc, and you could have wings... Dress as angels. o Tigers on the Prowl for a Cure – “Our team is a bunch of our friends who are teens, that go to our middle school. We collect money through bake sales at school, and other things. Last year, we had tiger fabric over our tent, and we painted faces for a dollar. Our team colors for our school are purple and white...and our mascot is a tiger. Do you have any cute ideas for our campsite? Games? Anything you think would be cute. We are planning on purchasing a few stuffed tigers to set out by our tent.” – Thanks to Ash for the idea! 11/04 o Wild Bunch – thanks to Relay4er! o Where the Wild Things Are – thanks to Relay4er! · Anniversary & Time Related Themes – See Anniversary Themes above in the Event Themes section also o 10 Years Closer to the Cure – Have your team have “cure” and “cancer related” theme… This one has a lot of flexibility! (thanks to Mary Ann Hocking) o 10 Years of Love, Hope, Relay – Have your team have a Love or Hope related theme…. (thanks to Mary Ann Hocking) o "10 Years Of Working For A Cure" - You can have your team have a theme that reflects where you work... For example, I used to work in a dept. that made Powdered cosmetics, so we called ourselves the Powder Puffs, and decorated ourselves with cosmetic puffs... (From Ramesh Moorthy, Baltimore MD) o "10 Years of Dancing for A Cure" - You could have a "dancing theme" for your team. (From Ramesh Moorthy, Baltimore MD) o “Happy Birthday, Relay!” – Thanks to ‘the4blairs’ for the inspiration for this theme! Dress in birthday hats, have a birthday cake, etc. and party it up! o “Decade in Review” - It may be fun to do a decade type theme highlighting such years as the 50s, 70s, or 80s. You can do a "Decade in Review" highlighting the last ten years of your Relay. For cancer education, maybe you could do a "Key Developments of Cancer research within the last decade." Just some ideas. :) (thanks to HopeInLindy) · Art Related Themes – Also see “Musical/Dancing/Songs/Party themes”: o Cure-ators – Here’s a great name if your team has people who work at a museum… Have posters of great works of art on your tents, and have a "coffee bar" that offers "premium coffee" for a donation for your team... Hold an art auction! - if you know local artists, have them donate pieces, or even better, do some custom pieces about Relay For Life (get approval of your local office if you do that!) that they donate for the auction! Or have kids do some art and auction that off... Parents are sure to buy it :) · Astronomy-Related Themes – see Nature Related Themes · Auto Racing – see Sports – Auto Racing · Australia-Related Themes o "A Cure Outback" – Dress up in Aussie Hats and boots, decorate your campsite like the outback · Aviation Related Themes (Flying) + Have clouds and cut out airplanes, and “wings” to handout to people J o Aeroing For A Cure o Flying For A Cure (thanks to Lori T.) o Planning For A Cure o Soaring High Above the Clouds For A Cure · Bank Related Themes – see Money/Financial Themes below · Baseball themes – see sports themes · Beach Related Themes – Also see Hawaiian Themes, Boating Themes…. For any of these themes, decorate your site with Beach Umbrellas, chairs, Towels, wear sunglasses and beach attire, etc.! This theme is a great fit with cancer control education about the sun – do slip slap slop – slip on a t-shirt, slap on a hat, and slop on some sunscreen to prevent sun damage! Hand out sunscreen etc. – thanks to many people for these ideas including Susanne, Relay4er, and others. o The Baech Bums – Thanks to Relay4er for this great idea! o Gilligan’s Island –Thanks to Susanne: “I did Gilligan's Island - Castaway Cancer and won best decorated tent in our relay April 2004. It was cute. I purchased a bunch of cute stuff from oriental trading company on-line including leis, Gilligan hats, coconut cups, grass skirts for tables and tent. (www.orientaltrading.com)”… Could be a great idea! Dress as the characters (Mr. Howell, Gilligan, the Skipper, Maryann, Ginger, the Professor), have a fake boat too or even real boat there, and some palm trees! o Hawaii-Cure-O – Dress your team in Hawaiian shirts (www.orientaltraders .com is a good place to get them cheap), and serve Hawaiian drinks for a donation… Wear leis, grass skirts and the whole nine yards… If your event has a Miss Relay contest where a man has to dress as a woman, get all the guys on your teams to wear grass skirts (with something under them!) and lots of leis and enter the contest! o “Wave goodbye to cancer” – Have pictures of waves on poster boards, and “wave” goodbye to cancer… Dress with a beach theme. · Biking Themes – See Sports Themes · Boating-Related Themes o All Aboard! For A Cure! – Decorate your campsite as a boat, and welcome All Aboard for a cure… distribute boat pins you buy or make (check on line at orientaltrading.com for ideas), and all dress to match the nautical theme (hats, uniforms if possible, etc…) o Boating For A Cure – If your site will allow it, bring a boat to your site, and “Fish” off the side… You can even have people come and donate $1 to get a Polaroid on the boat! o “Bye-You To Cancer!”, “Bayou For A Cure” Or “Fishing For A Cure” Or ???? – See Hunting/Fishing/Camping Themes below. o CRUISING FOR A CURE – Bring cruise ship stuff (thanks to Natchitoches, LA!) o Gilligan’s Island – see TV Themes o Love Boat for A Cure – See TV Themes o Pirate themes – “Plundering For A Cure”, “Make Cancer Walk The Plank”, “Polly Wants A Cure”, or at least make sure you work in Pirate related words (Blimey, shiver me timbers, ahoy, etc_– Dress as pirates, and “plunder for a cure” or any of the mentioned themes… – ask people for donations or tell them you’ll make them walk the plank - Walk the Plank - have people donate to have a another volunteer "Walk the Plank"... If they walk the plank, make it so that they (or someone else) can "out-donate" the original person to "save" whoever is walking the plank. Set up a fake plank with a wading pool at the end of it and a donation jar... If someone walks the plank, they have to step into the wading pool and get wet! Of course, you can't force anyone and it is all in fun, so make sure that participants take it in humor (let them take their shoes off, roll up their pants, etc.) Also – check out Oriental Trading Company for things to buy/ideas… Here is some more great stuff: “ o “Definitely you all need to have patches over one eye, someone needs a hook, a skull and crossbones flag...lots of pirate treasure.....a treasure chest (maybe work into a game for a fundraiser)...gosh the possibilities are endless. Don't forget a treasure map and a parrot on the shoulder!” Thanks to MagieDCat for the great ideas!!!!!! o Sailing the Sea For A Cure – Another idea with a boating theme (Thanks to Curebear88!) o Setting Sail For A Cure – Similar to All Aboard For A Cure above… · “Breast Cancer Themes” – See cancer Themes · “Cancer Themes” o “Breast Cancer Themes” § Bosom Buddies Against Breast Cancer – Get the play on words? § Breast Cancer Eradicators o “Colon Cancer Themes” – Don’t have any yet! o “Lung Cancer Themes” § “Breathing Our Way to A Cure” – see below for description § “Breathe The Fresh Air” – see below for description § “Breath Deep for a Cure” – see below for description § “Butt Kickers – We Kick Ash” – What a great pun J § “Take a Deep Breath For A Cure” – see below for description § ALL THESE THEMES ABOVE could use the following ideas: · Dress up in t-shirts that have a picture of lungs on them, and even unhealthy lungs on the back – “These are your lungs”, and on the back – “These are your lungs on drugs” for an example. (Just make sure that you check with your event that your event committee won’t be offended – it might seem a little graphic) · Have Ashtrays all over with red circles and a line thru it… · Have lots of literature about quitting smoking available · Post trivia about smoking and the benefits of quitting · o “Skin Cancer Themes” § “Slip Slap Slop For A Cure” – Named after the Slip Slap Slop cancer control program – Dress your team with aprons that have giveaway visor hats (SLAP), sunscreen (SLOP), brochures, etc. and have your team remind folks to SLIP into clothing that covers their exposed areas where possible to prevent sun exposure! § "Putting a Shade on Cancer" – Dress in Aprons with educational cancer control material, and get a bunch of visor hats… Place on peoples’ heads and “put a shade” on them to prevent cancer · “Cancer Control Themes” o "Putting a Shade on Cancer" – Dress in Aprons with educational cancer control material, and get a bunch of visor hats… Place on peoples’ heads and “put a shade” on them to prevent cancer · Car-Related Themes – See Transportation Related Themes, Also see “Sports Themes” and “Auto Racing” under that · “Caregiver/Doctor/Nurse/Scientist” Themes – See “Health Care Themes” below · “Cartoon Themes: o Cartooning For A Cure – THIS WORKS FOR THE WHOLE RELAY EVENT!!!!!!! – One relay event had Cartoons as the THEME FOR THE WHOLE EVENT, and every campsite had a cartoon theme!!!! Talk about neat! One site had a Dora Theme, another had Scooby Doo, another had Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck… You could have a Scooby Doo Theme for your campsite, or a Bugs Bunny Road Runner show theme… You could then use the themes listed under TV below… 5/04 o “Cartooning For A Cure” or “Toon Out Cancer” – Have each of your team members dress as a cartoon character to form your team… Decorate your tent like a cartoon house – maybe crazy colors, or something…. Have your cartoon characters walk the track with a Polaroid camera, and “sell” pictures for a $1 donation to the ACS – NOTE: Target parents with kids – they won’t say no to their kid wanting a picture with Wiley Coyote!!!! (Thanks to several different folks for this idea, including Jaime Lavigne 5/04) o “Clowning Around For A Cure” – all dress as clowns, and face paint kids! (thanks to Jena Wilder 8-04) o Disney theme – “We blew up the Disney characters life size and hand painted them, it was lot of work but it was awesome.” (thanks to mmouse for the idea) o Dr. Seuss – § “the Cat In The Hat” - Thanks to hiramt824 for this great idea– “I am ordering the Dr. Seuss hats from orientaltrading.com. I know you can get them in different colors if needed.” What a great idea!!!!!! as well as Magiedcat for the latter two theme ideas! § “The Cat In The Hat Is Working On A Cure!” § “The Cure In The Hat!” – Have a hat with Cancer Control tips to prevent and make treating cancer more effective! § “Green Eggs And Ham” – Cook up Green Eggs and Ham as a fundraising breakfast (food coloring in the eggs!) § “Horton Hatches An Egg For A Cure” – Have someone dress as Horton, and hold a egg breakfast as a fundraiser for your team at the event… After a night of relaying, people will donate to raise money if they get a good breakfast! (thanks to R. Moorthy, Baltimore, MD) § “How the Grinch Stole The Cure” – Have a Grinch who goes around giving “bad advice” to walkers about cancer (for example, telling them to eat high fat, high cholesterol diets)… Have another team member “thwart” the grinch by following him/her and ask those walkers what the correct answer is. If the walker gets it right, give them a prize. (thanks to R. Moorthy, Baltimore, MD) § “Oh the places you will go"– Tarzan! – a team did a Tarzan theme; one team member drew a huge Tarzan and a vine and the whole bit, and had the name “Wild Bunch” (thanks to mmouse for the idea!) § "One Wish, Two Wish, You Wish, I Wish...for A Cure." – Thanks to MagieDCat § “"The doctor is in, let the healing begin" Thanks to MagieDcat · “Cheering Themes” – see Sports, Cheerleading · “Christian Themes” – see Religious Themes · “Circus Related Themes” – Also see Animal Related Themes o Big Top Cureseekers - (thanks to ClayCoTx!) o Big Top Bears For A Cure or Big Top Bears Don’t Hibernate – Decorate with a circus theme, a big top, etc! Sell bears to raise money if that is ok with your event/staff (thanks to ClayCoTx and Mamamo777!) o Carousel Cureseekers - (thanks to ClayCoTx!) o “Clowning Around For A Cure” – all dress as clowns, and face paint kids! (thanks to Jena Wilder 8-04) o Cotton Candy For A Cure – Rent a cotton candy machine, and serve it at Relay… Check with your event and make sure that they are ok with cotton candy, as it is not the healthiest, and to make sure you have power for the machine. o Cureseeking Clowns - (thanks to ClayCoTx!) o Taming Cancer For A Cure – Have one person dress as a lion tamer, and the others dress as “cancer lions”, and each have a name plate with a type of cancer on it… Have the Lion Tamer “tame” the cancer. (R. Moorthy 3/05) o Tigers on the Prowl for a Cure – “Our team is a bunch of our friends who are teens, that go to our middle school. We collect money through bake sales at school, and other things. Last year, we had tiger fabric over our tent, and we painted faces for a dollar. Our team colors for our school are purple and white...and our mascot is a tiger. Do you have any cute ideas for our campsite? Games? Anything you think would be cute. We are planning on purchasing a few stuffed tigers to set out by our tent.” – Thanks to Ash for the idea! 11/04 · “Clothing Themes” – see Fashion-Related Themes · “Colon Cancer Themes” – see Cancer themes · “Construction Themes” o Builing Towards A Cure! – Bring some wood and look like you “building” towardsa cure… Come up with something nice that you’re are building (a chair?) and let people buy raffle tickets for it… Auction it off at the end of the event (bring precut pieces you can assemble and paint, or something). o Constructing A Cure! – Make your Relay team site look like a construction site – all wear hardhats, jeans, etc. and “construct” a cure throughout the night (you might bring 2x4’s and build something to post “tributes” on, or something like that. · “Cooking” – See “Food themes” below · “Country/Western” themes – see Western Themes · “Dancing Themes” – see Musical themes below · “Dress Up Themes – See Fashion Related Themes · “Education Themes” – For teachers, others in education, and those otherwise obsessed with school supplies… o Eraser Heads - You will be “rubbing out cancer”… Have pencils made out of paper tubes from inside of a carpet roll (you can get them at a furniture store). Have everyone on your team make their “hats” to resemble an eraser. Also, get a sheet of plywood and paint it black. Then paint on your writing on it – “RUBBING OUT CANCER” IN LARGE LETTERS...LIKE A BLACK BOARD. (from S. Johnson – thanks!!!!) o Teaching Our Way to A Cure – A group of teachers could bring cards with “educational facts about cancer” and hand them out to “students” – other Relay participants… Decorate your campsite like it is a classroom…. · “Fable Themes” – see Fairytales below · “Fairytale/Nursery Rhyme/ Fable Themes” – These cover a large variety of ideas, from things like the Three Little Pigs, to doing a Mother Goose Campsite (with all the different characters and ‘tent setups’) to ??? o "Three Little Pigs - Huff and Puff & Blow Cancer Away!” - “…Our theme is the "Three Little Pigs - Huff and Puff & Blow Cancer Away!” We will be serving BBQ plates from the Three Little Pigs BBQ (I know that is a terrible pun to the pigs) Of course we will have the Big Bad Wolf & 3 Pigs… You could decorate it as a brick house and make a cardboard chimney and so on… You could use a red checkered table cloth, straw bales around your site. You could wear aprons with the 3 little pigs on it or the big bad wolf with an "X" across him or with him huffing and puffing to blow out cancer. You could also all wear pig tails and had some kind of treasure hunt for the "three little pigs" or some type of trivia game to go with your theme. It would draw more people into your area! Play some type of music to go with theme… the following website has a lot of details on the story and pictures that might give you other ideas… http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/~odenbach/pigs/pig2.html (thanks to zoomzoom, brendak, sh40592 for all these ideas)

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