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Get Your School Involved...

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 Encourage your staff (teachers and administrators) to write letters to the students. Have each staff person choose 10 or so students to write letters to. Absolutely Incredible Kid Day stationery, flyers, logos and letter writing tips are all available on this site.
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 Share information about Absolutely Incredible Kid Day with your parent groups and encourage them to get involved. Include the flyer in your students' weekly folders.
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 Have a special event on March 15th. Invite a local personality to come and read a letter to all the students. Make "I am an Absolutely Incredible Kid" buttons for the students. Be creative and have fun!
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 If your school has a partnership with a local business, talk to them about getting involved.
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Get Your Business or Community Organization Involved...

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 Put information and letter writing tips in an upcoming newsletter or on your group's Intranet. Encourage adults to write a letter to a child or children in their lives - a son, daughter, niece, nephew, neighbor, grandchild or godchild.
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 Adopt kids in need. Organize an internal letter-writing effort and deliver letters to children in a shelter or at a local children's hospital. Need help finding a group of kids that need letters? Contact your local Camp Fire USA council or the local United Way. On March 15th, deliver the letters to children who may be strangers to you, but who may benefit the most from an encouraging letter.
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 Display an Absolutely Incredible Kid Day poster with stationery in the break room. Create a letter-writing area with posters, stationery, pens, and even a decorative mailbox. Call the Marketing Department at (907) 257-8820 or send an e-mail to jlamson@campfireak.org for supplies.
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 Devote five minutes of a meeting to encourage participation. Consider setting aside a few minutes for everyone to write a letter during the meeting.
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 Brainstorm ways to make Absolutely Incredible Kid Day, the letter writing and letter receiving inventive. (Put an absolutely incredible message for kids on a cake. Have a pizza/letter writing party.)
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 Consider becoming a Corporate Sponsor of Absolutely Incredible Kid Day here in Alaska.
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 If your business has a partnership with a local school, have your employees and even clients work together to write a letter to each and every student at the school.
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 Include an AIKD flyer in mailings to your customers and vendors.
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 Order fun incentives. Display an Absolutely Incredible Kid Day¨ poster in your office or meeting place, and supply fun pens and stationery to members to encourage participation and stimulate creativity. Specially designed posters, stationery, stickers, T-shirts, mugs, and more specialty items are available from Camp Fire USA. Merchandise for Absolutely Incredible Kid Day 2007 is now available. Order your materials today! (www.campfire.org)
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 Promote the day. Include Absolutely Incredible Kid Day on your organization's Web site or put a reminder on an outdoor message board.
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 Have fun!
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 Spread the word. Encourage your members to write letters to kids! Place a notice or the Absolutely Incredible Kid Day news release in your February or March publications, post it on bulletin boards and your web site, or e-mail members with letter writing tips and sample sentences.  
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 Showcase letters. Collect letters prior to Absolutely Incredible Kid Day. On March 15, 2007, publish or create a unique office display with selected letters written by your members to the important children in their lives.
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 Take a 10-minute time out during a meeting to encourage participation in Camp Fire USA­s Absolutely Incredible Kid Day. Set aside 10 minutes for everyone to write a letter to a child during the meeting.
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 Be creative! Brainstorm ways to make letter writing and letter receiving exciting!
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 Create a display or decorative mail box to encourage participation.
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 Put an absolutely incredible message for kids on cupcakes and deliver them to a homeless shelter or children's hospital.
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 Create a giant letter and invite the community to sign it. Then, distribute stationery to everyone who participates so that they can write personalized letters to special children in their lives.


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