Happy Halloween and Red Ribbon Week!

Happy Halloween and Red Ribbon Week!

Happy Halloween and Red Ribbon Week to everyone across the country. We wish you a safe and happy trick-r-treating and most of all...a drug free night of fun and happiness.

Best Wishes on Red Ribbon Week

Best Wishes on Red Ribbon Week

Red Ribbon Week is in full swing around the country and NIMCO, Inc. would like to wish each and every one of you the best as your schools and communities celebrate this important event.

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Drug and Alcohol Attention Grabbers™ - Tug Of War

Over the next few weeks, NIMCO will be sharing some "Attention Grabber™" ideas that you can use in class to help teach about the dangers of drugs and alcohol. The “Attention Grabbers™” are designed to assist with teaching and speaking about the adverse effects alcohol and drugs cause to all who are exposed to these addictive drugs. We live in a visual society, making visual aids a needed resource to assist with speaking or teaching thus enabling you to reach your entire audience. The suggestions are designed to assist your alcohol and drug education programs. You may expound upon each scenario as your presentation or speaking time allows. Each “Attention Grabber™” is very cost effective to present with the suggested visual aids to reiterate the information given during your presentation. 

Tug Of War  

Supplies:

• A long length of rope
• 7 Volunteers

Directions:

Start by speaking to the group about the constant pressure the youth of today are faced with. Tell the audience that you realize that peer pressure is the number one reason that youth first try drugs or alcohol.

Having positive friends who make wise choices is ideally the group with which you would like to be

associated. Ask the group this question: Do you think that when someone starts using drugs they think about becoming addicted? On the other hand, what about alcohol? Do you really think that when someone starts drinking they plan to become an alcoholic?

Ask six equally sized volunteers to assist you in a demonstration. Hand six students the rope and ask them to try a tug of war with the rope. If both sides are equally balanced, it will be hard for one side to easily pull the other side over. After a few minutes, stop the demonstration. Ask the youth if they ever feel that they are in a tug of war with friends. Many times the constant tugging of peer pressure causes you to try drugs or alcohol.

Ask for another volunteer to come to the front and have them join one side of the tug of war. Now ask

the two teams to start again. The team with the fourth team member should have the advantage and

win. Tell the group that there is strength in numbers and when you make a decision to be with the positive group, it can make a difference in your future as well as your friend’s future. You have the “Personal Power” to be strong and say no to drugs and alcohol. DO NOT let anyone take your power away.

* Be selective so that the individual sizes of the teams will accomplish your goal with this presentation.

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More Fun Ideas for Red Ribbon Week!

Here are a list of a few ideas you can use during Red Ribbon Week! 

• Use red play dough to create magnets.

• Tie red balloons in your yard.

• Paint little stones red and make lady bugs.

• Write a poem about the color red and a “Drug Free” message.

• Check out and read a book about being “Drug Free.”

• Give a piece of red candy to anyone who tells you a drug fact.

• Visit a Web site about drug education and list facts you learn.  

• Make a link chain with red construction paper.

• Make a lunch with red items.

• Discuss safe and unsafe medicine.

• Write with only red ink all week.

Head over to our website for more Red Ribbon Week information. We also have a page dedicated to the National 2013 Red Ribbon Week Theme "A Healthy Me is Drug Free!" where you can purchase many different promotional items that you can use and pass out to students during Red Ribbon Week Oct. 23-31st.

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Recognition Day - Ideas for Red Ribbon Week Activities

NIMCO, Inc. Encourages Red Ribbon Week Activities

Over the next few weeks leading up to Red Ribbon Week 2013, NIMCO will be sharing some activity ideas on our blog that teachers and community leaders can use to help students get excited about Red Ribbon Week. Many of these ideas can be incorporated in your school leading up to Red Ribbon Week.

Our 18th and entry is entitled: Recognition Day

• Create a Red Ribbon Hall of Fame, designate a special wall or create a scrapbook, plaque

or place to display pictures of individuals, groups, businesses, and agencies who have made significant contribution to prevention efforts.

• Do not forget your teachers and administrators, recognize the time and energy they spent

making red ribbon week a success, let the media know about your extra special staff.

• Moms, Dads, and Guardians need recognition too, take time to thank them for being drug-free.

• Write thank you letters to businesses in our community for celebrating Red Ribbon Week and for being strong role models for students in your town.

• Give special recognition awards to individuals and groups who have made outstanding contributions to tobacco, alcohol and other drug use prevention.

TODAY’S MESSAGE
“Thank people in your life today that give a good example of being drug-free.”

Head over to our website for more Red Ribbon Week information. We also have a page dedicated to the National 2013 Red Ribbon Week Theme "A Healthy Me is Drug Free!" where you can purchase many different promotional items that you can use and pass out to students during Red Ribbon Week Oct. 23-31st.

It's Up To Me To Be Healthy - Ideas for Red Ribbon Week Activities

NIMCO, Inc. Encourages Red Ribbon Week Activities

Over the next few weeks leading up to Red Ribbon Week 2013, NIMCO will be sharing some activity ideas on our blog that teachers and community leaders can use to help students get excited about Red Ribbon Week. Many of these ideas can be incorporated in your school leading up to Red Ribbon Week.

Our 17th entry is entitled: It's Up To Me To Be Healthy

Red Ribbon Week is a positive and affirming opportunity for everyone to celebrate a “Drug Free” and a “Healthy Lifestyle.”  

Red apples are a great way to encourage being
healthy for Red Ribbon Week!

• In class, students are asked to sign their name, write a “Be Healthy” message, and then ‘link’ their papers together (like a chain) to hang up around the school.

• Students can invite their parents or guardians to school for lunch. After lunch, everyone is encouraged to pledge to be healthy by signing his or her name on a paper banner citing the theme.

• Students receive a red apple during lunchtime to enjoy.

• Students write a healthy choice on a beach ball. After completing, the teacher dunks it into a basket as a symbolic gesture.

TODAY’S MESSAGE
“A Healthy Me is Drug Free!”

Head over to our website for more Red Ribbon Week information. We also have a page dedicated to the National 2013 Red Ribbon Week Theme "A Healthy Me is Drug Free!" where you can purchase many different promotional items that you can use and pass out to students during Red Ribbon Week Oct. 23-31st.

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Crime Scene Investigation - Ideas for Red Ribbon Week Activities

NIMCO, Inc. Encourages Red Ribbon Week Activities

Over the next few weeks leading up to Red Ribbon Week 2013, NIMCO will be sharing some activity ideas on our blog that teachers and community leaders can use to help students get excited about Red Ribbon Week. Many of these ideas can be incorporated in your school leading up to Red Ribbon Week.

Our 16th entry is entitled: Crime Scene Investigation

Do you want to shock your community or school? You can make the school parking lot into a

crime scene with caution tape, chalk drawings, and as many details as you would like to add.

Decide what type of crime scene: drug, alcohol, or tobacco.

• Car Crash Scene - Set up a wrecked car and arrange victims to give the appearance of       

A car crash scene at your school is an effective
tool for teaching about the dangers of impaired driving
during Red Ribbon Week!

being struck by an impaired driver. Use fake blood to intensify the effect. Policemen and

paramedics can demonstrate what happens when they arrive on the scene after an impaired driving crash. Ask them to arrest the impaired driver and strap the victims to a backboard or pronounce them dead and cover them with a sheet. Discuss the event. Elicit comments from the people who performed the emergency services, friends and family of the "deceased," and participants who witnessed the event.

• Drug Crime Scene - Students job is to find and process any evidence located at the crime

scene. Teacher can divide students into groups and allow them to process the

crime scene from beginning to the end. Students may be supplied with a list

of information to fill out during the investigation. The students will then write a report about the evidence they found and submit to the teacher.

TODAY’S MESSAGE
“Drugs don’t only waste your money but also waste your life.”

Head over to our website for more Red Ribbon Week information. We also have a page dedicated to the National 2013 Red Ribbon Week Theme "A Healthy Me is Drug Free!" where you can purchase many different promotional items that you can use and pass out to students during Red Ribbon Week Oct. 23-31st.

Team Tobacco Free - Ideas for Red Ribbon Week Activities

NIMCO, Inc. Encourages Red Ribbon Week Activities

Over the next few weeks leading up to Red Ribbon Week 2013, NIMCO will be sharing some activity ideas on our blog that teachers and community leaders can use to help students get excited about Red Ribbon Week. Many of these ideas can be incorporated in your school leading up to Red Ribbon Week.

Our 15th entry is entitled: Team Tobacco Free  

Tobacco Free for Red Ribbon Week

The goal for Red Ribbon Week is to create awareness about drugs and their negative influence. Many people forget tobacco is a drug and it needs to be incorporated into RRW activities.

• Students create displays showing why tobacco is a drug. Show pictures and facts about tobacco use and effects on the body.

• Calculate the cost of smoking or dipping over a month, year, 2 years, etc. Think of what else you could do with that money.

• Short of Breath Relay to simulate emphysema or other respiratory disease caused by smoking (use coffee straws, regular size straws, or both).

TODAY’S MESSAGE
“Stay Clear of Tobacco! Clear Mind! Clean Body!”

Head over to our website for more Red Ribbon Week information and Tobacco Free products. We also have a page dedicated to the National 2013 Red Ribbon Week Theme "A Healthy Me is Drug Free!" where you can purchase many different promotional items that you can use and pass out to students during Red Ribbon Week Oct. 23-31st.

Stay On The Red Line - Ideas for Red Ribbon Week Activities

NIMCO, Inc. Encourages Red Ribbon Week Activities

Over the next few weeks leading up to Red Ribbon Week 2013, NIMCO will be sharing some activity ideas on our blog that teachers and community leaders can use to help students get excited about Red Ribbon Week. Many of these ideas can be incorporated in your school leading up to Red Ribbon Week.

Our 14th entry is entitled: Stay On The Red Line  

Stay On The Red Line!

Alcohol seems so harmless and exciting to youth that they don’t realize just what one drink can do. Movies, TV shows, and commercials make alcohol seem fun or cool. This is a day you can educate students on the dangers of alcohol use and the effects of drinking underage.

• You can have realistic intoxication simulators setup so that students can get a realistic view of how alcohol effects the body. A great kit for schools to use is called “Fatal Vision® Goggles” that is specially designed to simulate visual impairment caused by alcohol and drugs.

• Pass out materials with facts about alcohol.

• Show students age appropriate programs about the negatives of alcohol.

TODAY’S MESSAGE
“You Booze, You Lose.”

Head over to our website for more Red Ribbon Week information. We also have a page dedicated to the National 2013 Red Ribbon Week Theme "A Healthy Me is Drug Free!" where you can purchase many different promotional items that you can use and pass out to students during Red Ribbon Week Oct. 23-31st.

Lei Off Drugs - Ideas for Red Ribbon Week Activities

NIMCO, Inc. Encourages Red Ribbon Week Activities

Over the next few weeks leading up to Red Ribbon Week 2013, NIMCO will be sharing some activity ideas on our blog that teachers and community leaders can use to help students get excited about Red Ribbon Week. Many of these ideas can be incorporated in your school leading up to Red Ribbon Week.

Our thirteenth entry is entitled: Lei Off Drugs

• Hawaiian leis will be passed out to all students to wear. 

Lei Off Drugs for Red Ribbon Week!

• Students wear their favorite Hawaiian theme clothing: colorful shirts, grass skirts, crowns of flowers, flip flops, colorful bandanas, etc. (Must follow the school dress code and dress appropriately.)

• Place inflatable palm trees, pink flamingos and colorful balloons around the school.

• Students receive theme sticker for participating.

• Teachers teach students a few Hawaiian words and phrases.

• Play a CD of island music during lunch hour to add to the atmosphere.

• Ask the cafeteria ahead of time if they can serve Hawaiian themed foods like pineapple, bananas, kiwi, fruit salad, coconut, rice, Hawaiian punch, beef stew or BBQ.

TODAY’S MESSAGE
“Aloha. Hand in hand lets take a drug-free stand.”

Head over to our website for more Red Ribbon Week information. We also have a page dedicated to the National 2013 Red Ribbon Week Theme "A Healthy Me is Drug Free!" where you can purchase many different promotional items that you can use and pass out to students during Red Ribbon Week Oct. 23-31st.

Good Times - Ideas for Red Ribbon Week Activities

NIMCO, Inc. Encourages Red Ribbon Week Activities

Over the next few weeks leading up to Red Ribbon Week 2013, NIMCO will be sharing some activity ideas on our blog that teachers and community leaders can use to help students get excited about Red Ribbon Week. Many of these ideas can be incorporated in your school leading up to Red Ribbon Week.

Our twelfth entry is entitled: Good Times  

Poster contests are great for Red Ribbon Week!

This is a day to make youth realize how they do not need drugs or alcohol to have a good time.

• Poster Contest - Students create posters showing fun things you can do without drugs.

• Students bring a photo of a favorite memory that was made to show that drugs don’t have to be involved to have a great time.

• Use student baby pictures for a giant collage entitled, "Born to be Drug-Free."

• Have a parade! March through the school or town declaring “We are drug-free!”

• Students dress like their favorite decade: 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s.

TODAY’S MESSAGE
“Great memories shouldn’t be wasted on drugs.”

Head over to our website for more Red Ribbon Week information. We also have a page dedicated to the National 2013 Red Ribbon Week Theme "A Healthy Me is Drug Free!" where you can purchase many different promotional items that you can use and pass out to students during Red Ribbon Week Oct. 23-31st.