Summer is a great time to get the community together to enjoy the good weather, delicious food, and great company. You can have a clear out with community garage sales, an educational summer with clubs. You could encourage everyone to show their patriotic side with a 4th July parade, or bring everyone together for a block or pool party. This summer host the very best community summer party with these ideas!
Summer Block Party
A block party is a great way to get everyone together. Shut a street in your HOA and get out all the lawn chairs (or ask residents to bring their own), play a Spotify playlist, and some games. You could get some outdoor games for all the family, such as giant chess, giant Jenga, petanque, or hula hoops. Ask residents to bring a dish to share or set up the grill and ask people to bring side dishes.
Post the event on Neigbrs by Vinteum, send residents a text and an email to let people know when and where the event will be. Make sure you let people where you’ll have the event if it rains. This is a perfect community summer party for the whole family, children and adults can play games, talk, enjoy good food and company.
Garage Sale
The KonMari method is in! Take advantage of spring cleaning to recycle, swap and sell the items you no longer want by having a garage sale. The board could organize for the whole community to have a garage sale! Either they could lay out everything on their front lawns or you could ask them to bring everything to one place and set up a little market square in your community. Make sure you let residents know any items that they can and can’t include, such as food, electrical equipment, baking supplies, clothes, books, CDs or DVDs! You could link this with a block party as well and have a huge community-wide day.
Summer Clubs
Get new clubs going! You could set up a biking or hiking club to take advantage of the lovely summer weather and to explore the area near (or not so near) your HOA or condo. Or craft clubs, so you can learn to knit or sew or scrapbooking in the sun. A book club is always great, and if people are traveling then it could be online, otherwise, if you’re a summer community it’s ideal for people to find their summer read(s). If a book club is ambitious you could have a book share, or set up a little communal library to bring people together.
You could also set up classes, like surfing, first aid, or gardening. These could be formal or informal, paid or free, whatever is best for your community.
4th of July Parade
I’m sure you’re going to do a 4th of July event within your community, but you could make it bigger and better with a parade.
The board needs to plan out a route through the community. Then kids of all ages could come out with their bikes and scooters. Parents can take very young children in strollers and you can decorate bikes and strollers in red, blue and white. Encourage everyone to wear red, white and blue and give out prizes for the best dressed, or best-decorated vehicle. The parade could end at a drink and food tent where another party can start!
Summer Pool Party
A classic summer party, and it’s always a hit for a HOA summer party. This works whether you have a pool or not. If you have a pool then you can open it up, if you don’t then buy or ask people to bring inflatable pools or paddle pools. People can dip their feet in to cool down and children can splash around.
You could provide some fun floats for water or land, have new clubs, fresh juices, ice tea, and summer punch. You could have a theme, like all-white or animals or summer celebs. If you include pets in that their residents will go all out and you’ll get some hilarious costumes. An ice-cream bar fits in nicely with a pool party, and so does a picnic. A fire pit is always a hit, and who doesn’t love a summer barbeque?
The sky’s your limit for community summer party ideas, if you have fun with it then residents will love it. Have a fun party-filled summer!
If you’d like to discover more about what to do in summer in your HOA, download our summer bundle. It has one checklist, and two ebooks: one in amenity management and disaster preparation.
