How to Incorporate Holidays into Lessons

Switch your toys out to match the season.



• EX: Pumpkins/monsters for Halloween time
• EX: Holiday rubber ducks

Play seasonal music.

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Items floating in the water 

• EX: Pumpkins for fall (and make pumpkin seeds and pie for staff after!)
• Credit: Nicholette Lorg of WSC Swim School

Pre or Post lesson crafts.

• Swimmers can make hand turkeys, cut out and/or decorate skulls, candles, trees, etc. and either take home the craft or find a spot in your pool to hang them!
• Don’t have a space to hang permanently? You could purchase a cork board with pins or a whiteboard with magnets to display them!
• After the holiday season you could use the board to post announcements or other important things for your lesson.

During the winter you could host a food drive or fundraiser in the spirit of giving.

• Whoever raises/gives the most could get a discount or a prize.

Put up LED light strands.

• You can change the color based on the season!

Teaching skills with fun names.

• EX: for halloween time -> we don’t want to look like zombies when we do streamline! Make sure we’re nice and tight like a rocket
• EX: If Christmas is the pre
• EX: for halloween time -> when getting swimmers comfortable with bobs, they could do “boo” bobs. Lower themselves down to the mouth and say “boo” into the water to practice blowing bubbles. 
• Credit: DSC Swim Lessons (This can be done with other sounds as well, but typically we call them froggy bobs)
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