School Trips for Black History Month with Wristbands

Since 1976, The United States has officially designated the month of February as the celebration of Black History Month. Many schools teach important lessons on the many contributions of African Americans to the history, culture, and education of the United States. Churches and youth groups may also teach Sunday school lessons that tie into Black History Month, such as sermons on equality and brotherly love. There are lots of charities that can use Black History Month to their advantage by raising donations for non-profit organizations that support inner-city youth or another reputable cause. Whether you are an educator, youth group leader, Sunday school teacher, or campaign promoter – ordering quality wristbands from wristbands.com can significantly help you be successful with the planning and organization of Black History Month lessons, field trips, and activities.

Teachers of elementary, middle school, and high school students are likely to be preparing Black History Month lessons during February. For elementary students, visiting a library that focuses on Black History is an excellent option for a field trip. Take the students to the library in the beginning of Black History Month, and require each student to check-out a book on a prominent African American figure from the Civil Rights era. Then, have each student present an oral book report to the class. Wristbands.com has a large assortment of stock print and customizable wristbands for single-day use that are economically priced and perfect for short-term applications like field trips. Wristbands.com carries an entire line of Tyvek® Expressions Child Safety Wristbands that feature a write-on area to fit a child’s name, guardian name, and emergency phone number. Our Child Safety Wristbands have fun stock prints such as bright red stop signs and yellow school busses. We also carry Child Safety Wristbands that do not feature a write-on area.
If you live close by a historical site that became monumental during the Civil Rights Movement, take your students there for a Black History Month field trip. Some good ideas for Black History Month field trips are:

• Tribute to the Great Migration (Chicago, Illinois)
• Apollo Theater  (New York, New York)
• Carter’s Grove Plantation (Williamsburg, Virginia)
• Emancipation Park (Houston, Texas)
• National Museum of the Tuskegee Airmen (Detroit, Michigan)

For multi-day Black History Month field trips, wristbands.com carries durable plastic and vinyl wristbands that feature a non-transferable SecurSnap® closure. These wristbands are so sturdy that you need a pair of scissors to remove them. You can customize your Black History Month field trip wristbands for an economic price at wristbands.com. Add your school’s name, address, and phone number for heightened security. If children get lost on a Black History Month field trip, their customized wristband, that features your school’s information, will help adults re-unite you with your lost student. Parents will have peace of mind knowing their child has proper identification while on their Black History Month school field trip.

Churches also often recognize Black History Month, and Sunday school teachers may want to teach the children under their care about some influential African American men and women who were large contributors to the church. Sunday school teachers can teach children some facts related to Black History Month, and the next time they meet, quiz them. If they answer correctly, you can reward them with a trendy silicone wristband from wristbands.com. Ask them who these important contributors to the black church were: Peter Durrett, George Liele, Andrew Bryan and Matthew Moore. People of all ages and demographics like to wear trendy silicone awareness wristbands as a bragging right. You can customize the silicone wristbands you order from wristbands.com with your church or youth group’s name. For example, you could imprint, “Grace Baptist BHM 2013,” or something more descriptive such as, Celebrate Equality 2013.”  Wristbands.com carries five styles of silicone awareness wristbands, from basic to premium, in 20 bright and vivid colors.

Non-profit organizations and charities may also find wristbands a helpful tool with helping to promote an awareness campaign that is related to Black History Month. If you are a non-profit that supports inner-city youth sports or arts, Black History Month can work to your advantage. If you order custom or stock silicone wristbands in bulk, you will be pleased by how much money you save. Sell the wristbands for $2 and donate the profit to your organization or non-profit of choice. Brand your campaign by purchasing premium color-fill debossed silicone wristbands from wristbands.com with your charity’s personal message imprinted onto the surface of the wristbands. You can even imprint line art and cool graphics onto the surface of the wristbands for an even greater impact.

Black History Month should not only be educational, it should be fun! Be adventurous and give your students a field trip they will remember by visiting a historical site or library related to Black History Month. Make sure to order your plastic, vinyl, silicone, or Tyvek® wristbands from wristbands.com early enough to make it in time for your field trip. The more you buy, the more you can save, so stock up on wristbands for the following year’s Black History Month. You will be easily able to keep track of children and parent volunteers with bright and noticeable wristbands from wristbands.com. With so many styles and materials to choose from, you are sure to find the perfect Black History Month wristbands for your class on wristbands.com. Don’t forget to order today and enjoy the savings from wristbands.com.

Different Type of Silicone Wristbands – How to Pick Silicone Wristbands for your needs

Don’t get overwhelmed by the different choices available for custom rubber wristbands, and don’t let yourself choose one that isn’t perfect for you among all those options! It’s easy to figure out which wristband will serve your purposes most effectively. You can customize your wristband with wristband widths, textures, color schemes and types of text/logo incorporation.

First thing’s first: there are TWO thicknesses for silicone wristbands. The standard thickness, a little under half an inch, is the one that LiveStrong uses. These wristbands can go everywhere and anywhere with you and they can be more subtle and discreet if you’d like them to be. 1-inch silicone wristbands are also available. These are larger and make more of a statement – you might have seen 1-inch wristbands in the ‘I ❤ Boobies’ breast cancer awareness campaign. No matter which thickness you prefer, we offer many options for how to display your logo or design.

We have FOUR options for the background color scheme of your silicone wristbands. The background for your custom silicone wristband can be solid color, 3 stripes, half-and-half, marbleized, or tri-color. All these options offer you the chance to make your wristband unique and easy to recognize, even from a distance. Some bands even come with textures, like ‘golf’ or ‘tire.’ There are so many options to make your custom wristbands stand out – don’t settle for less-than-perfect.

Finally, we offer FIVE options for the actual message printed on your wristband.  Debossed wristbands feature recessed text, pressed in to the rubber of the wristband. The LiveStrong wristbands are debossed. We also offer ink-injected siliconewristbands – these resemble debossed wristbands, but they also have a contrasting color injected into the text to make it stand out. Another option for contrasting text: color-coat wristbands. These silicone wristbands actually consist of two layers, so the color on the inside of the wristband matched the text and contrasts with the color of the outside of the wristband. 

You also have the option of embossed wristbands. Unlike debossed text, embossed text stands out in relief above the rest of the wristband instead of being pressed into the band. Embossed text is a subtle touch of originality and a good way to stand out.

Finally, we offer screen printed wristbands. Screen printing allows us a high level of precision even on the narrow surface of the wristband. Unlike the other wristbands, screen printed silicone wristbands allow us to display a logo with details and fine lines, and create narrower, smaller text. 

Regardless of the type of printing you choose for your message, you can order half-inch or one-inch wristbands. We offer all the methods for both sizes and you can choose any combination of custom wristband size, color, and text.  You can get creative with different types of wristbands as well – why not get some half-inch and some one-inch custom wristbands with the same logo and color scheme? Make your company, product or event stand out by selecting the perfect choice from our wide array of options for silicone wristband customization.

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School Field Trips and Child Safety with Wristbands

Being in charge of a classroom full of kids is a serious responsibility. Their safety is always of utmost concern. This concern is amplified when school field trips and other events are scheduled. Child safety wristbands are a great solution for those just-in-case scenarios, like when a child may accidentally wander away from the group on a school excursion or get lost in the crowd. The safety wristbands give both parents and teachers peace of mind, and instill children with a sense of security. Plus, kids love wearing them!

Wristbands provide an easy, inexpensive way to help assist child safety efforts through identification. We offer a couple different types of child safety wristbands, so you are sure to find one that meets the needs of any kind of school field trip or event.

Our Expressions wristbands work great for field trips in which the entire class leaves together to visit an off-campus venue, like a museum, and then returns back to the school together. The child safety wristbandshave pre-printed lines where you can use a permanent marker to write the child’s name, along with the chaperone’s name and cell phone number. As an added measure of safety, wristbands can be turned inside out so that strangers are not able to see the child’s name. Instead, the emergency contact information is only exposed upon the child reaching out to an authority figure and asking for help.

During field trips, chaperones should have their cell phones with them and the ringer turned on at all times. If a child does become separated from the school group, they can approach an authority figure and the chaperone can be called immediately. The child can be reunited with the group quickly and safely.

If you are planning a field trip to a museum, zoo, amusement park, aquarium or other such attraction for kids, don’t hesitate to ask whether they provide child safety wristbands to students. Businesses that cater to the wonderment and happiness of children are just as concerned about their safety and well-being as parents and teachers.

Parents can also get great use out of child safety wristbands; especially if you have an active family that goes on a lot of outings together. Whether it’s to a ballgame, theater, observatory or mini golf, a child safety wristband certainly can add a cushion of security to the day.

Another type of wristband is our Securmatch® or Securband Plus®, which have a matching, numbered, tear-off stub. The child wears the numbered wristband and the parent or guardian retains the matching numbered stub. This child safety wristband works well for an event, like a school sponsored theme party, in which parents drop off their child, and then pick them up at the end of the event. When it’s time to go, the school or host can verify the numbers match.

Another great use for this type of child safety wristband is when parents host a large birthday party for their son or daughter at a public eatery, like a pizza or ice cream parlor. Maybe a guest’s parents drop him or her off, but designate a grandparent to pick up the child. Not only should the parents communicate to the host who they are entrusting to pick up their child, but also a matching, numbered, tear-off stub could serve as further verification in case the hosts have never met the grandparent before.

So, where’s the fun amongst all this safety stuff? Like we said before, kids love to wear wristbands. They love the bright, colors and fun designs. And, we’ve got plenty to choose from! We offer more than 100 combinations of designs and colors so you can find the perfect child safety wristbandfor your field trip or event. Wearing a colorful wristband with a cool design makes kids feel important—like they are part of a special club. Don’t be surprised if they show ’em off just a little bit, either. They are sure to wear their wristband weeks or even months after the adventure is done, savoring and treasuring the memories. When they finally decide to remove their wristband, children can save it as a keepsake of a fun day away from the classroom—good times spent with their friends and teachers or family.