Summer Out Loud - Week 1
Welcome to the Summer Out Loud challenge! Use your passport as a guide to plan your family activities.

This challenge is not a competition! Complete whatever activities you choose to engage your family and get active.
At the end of the challenge, turn in your passport to a York or Lancaster YMCA location for the opportunity to win prizes. You do NOT have to complete every activity to be eligible.

Pick up a passport at the Y or download and print yours from the below links.



Get Social!
Post photos and videos of your family activities on facebook and instagram.

Use the hashtag: #YSummerOutLoud and tag the Y to be eligible for additional prizes.

Your post may also make the weekly national celebration video, so be loud and creative!
Get Inspired!


Weekly Goal
Get Active!
It is time to move and groove as a family unit. Aim to be physically active for at least 30 minutes every day.

Need some ideas? Check your passport or try the below suggestions from our friends at WellSpan Health:

  • Create an indoor or outdoor obstacle course that includes some exercise stations. For example, to move ahead on the course, do a somersault, or 10 jumping jacks or stand on one leg for 30 seconds. Use household items like cardboard boxes, cushions and beach towels.
  • Practice headstands. Be sure to have a clear space to practice, use your core muscles and benefit from the blood flow to the brain.
  • Make foot races fun by changing things up. Variations include carrying an egg on a spoon while running like an animal (hop this a frog or gallop like a horse).
  • Have a dance fest. Make a music playlist that includes favorite songs from everyone in the family. Incorporate freeze play when the music stops.
  • Jump rope. Dust off your memories of the rhymes you jumped to as a child. Or host a competition and see who can jump the longest time.

Around York
This summer, GO York! helps you explore the tales of books and the tails of animals while you search for thirty “tails” – wooden marker posts with a unique etching attached – that are hidden in various local and state parks. Pick up the Tail Trail Guide, along with the rubbing sheets at any York County Library and GO and Chase Your Tale!

Learn more about this free program by clicking this link
Getting Out Loud!
Lawn Twister

  1. Cut a 10” circle out from a piece of cardboard or box
  2. Using turf paint, spray chalk, or spray paint, use the circle template to create a row of 6 circles in one color- evenly space out the circles approximately 5” apart
  3. Make 3 additional rows (each in a different color) using the first to make a grid
  4. Use Dice to call the Twister movements:

One Die: 1- Left Hand, 2- Right Hand, 3- Left Foot, 4- Right Foot, 5- Roller’s Choice, 6- Players’ Choice
Second Die: use a marker to color each side to match the colors on the grass. 5- Roller’s Choice, 6- Players’ Choice
Game posted by One Good Thing
Getting Out Loud (Virtually)!
Need to get out loud at home?

Try the virtual family fitness program below.
Create Healthy Habits
Make a Watermelon Pizza

Click for the recipe and watch the video below for easy instructions.