NCYC 2019

Opening Prayer

What are trading items?

• Way to meet new people
• Represent local community
• Keepsake of experience

How does it work?

• Random strangers "trading items"
• Sought after items

Cheese Beads Included!

Make/Buy Your Own

• Decorated Clothes pins
• Buttons/pins (local organization donation?)
• Cross necklaces
• Rosaries

Crazy hats

• Cheesehead - look for sponsors?
• Buy/create hats (look on Pinterest for LOTS of ideas

Other ideas

• Mini cowbells (add decoration!)
• Fleece/fabric scarves
• Bead bracelets

Broken cheese beads?

• Cheese earrings
• Cheese bracelets
• Add to clothes pins

Local sources

• Chamber of commerce/convention center
• Dairy council?
• Manufacturing?

How many trading items do we need?

When do we make them?

• Team building activity
• Encourage on own time

Other considerations

• Completed items kept with leader
• Remember drying time!
• Environmentally conscious? Fair trade? (Reduce, reuse, recycle!)

Spots still open

• Register additions to your group individually
• Once rooms/buses are full registration will close

Questions/comments/ suggestions?

Upcoming dates

• June 26: Paperwork & forms webinar
• August 12: Group leader meeting at Arch
• September 1: T-shirt submissions due
• Sept 15/22: Paperwork due
• October 27: ALL participant gathering at Arch
• Sept 26 OR Oct 1: Adult leader meeting