4 Trip-Worthy Parents’ Weekend Activity Ideas Your Chapter Should Do!
Speaking from experience, one of the hardest things about being in college is being away from family while you study at your dream university. And parents feel the same! They always miss their baby who’s lived under their roof all their lives!
Parents’ Weekend is the best way to reunite with your folks without waiting for another term break. Plus, it’s always fun to prove to your parents that your Greek life isn’t just crazy parties like how they see sororities and fraternities in films!
With the generational (and sometimes even cultural) gap, how do you make sure that everyone enjoys Parents’ Weekend for sororities or fraternities? What Parents’ Weekend activity ideas should you do?
To make the trip super worth it, your chapter should definitely pull off one of these Parents’ Weekend activities! Sorority and fraternity approved!
1. Food or Drink Tasting Party
A generous buffet is nice for any Parents’ Weekend, but why not take it a step further?
A fun meet-pairing tasting barbeque should make any dad excited!
A tasting party is a feast for the stomach and the mind. You get to learn more about how to pair food and drinks together, how to prepare them best, etc.!
There are experts that your chapter can hire to teach everyone attending about the specific food or drink choice. Or, if your exec team is feeling a little adventurous, why not see if some of your members’ parents want to showcase their culinary genius?
For sororities, one of the cutest ideas for a tasting party is tea tasting! There’s more to it than just dunking your bag of green tea in hot water, after all. It’s best paired with coquette sorority merch for Parents’ Weekend, too!
For fraternities, why not try a meat-pairing tasting party? There are a lot of interesting concepts behind choosing which sides or sauces go best with your favorite meats. You can even go extra and do a surf-and-turf pairing tasting party!
2. DIY Custom Gifts to Each Other
A simple Parents’ Weekend sorority shirt for you and your parent would be the perfect canvass for a DIY!
No, we don’t just mean the custom Greek merch you get from us, though we know your parents are going to 100% love getting matching shirts for Parents’ Weekend. I know mine did.
Why not transform your chapter house into your very own DIY workshop for a day? It’s a fun activity where you get to make stuff that helps you feel connected to your parents while you’re away (and vice versa)!
Work with your parents to create cool matching bracelets, draw or paint on your Parents’ Weekend sorority shirts, or even create personalized keychains for you and your parents! Our top bets are using a Dremel rotary tool to carve on leather keychains or make easy resin keychains with your initials.
3. Volunteer For a Day
Like we said above, many parents worry about their kids joining a Greek chapter. After all, movies and shows often seem to portray sororities and fraternities in the US as primarily just a bunch of partygoers.
Why not prove to them that your chapter is more than that through a weekend of volunteering?
There are organizations out there that are cool with letting your entire chapter and all parents involved volunteer for a day or two. Or, you can coordinate with the Philanthropy chair and go for activities more aligned with your chapter’s advocacy!
4. Awards Night
Take your mom on to the stage as you receive your reward for being the cutest mom-and-daughter pair!
What’s the one time parents are likely always invited to school and they’re more than eager to attend?
That’s right: recognition events. Nothing makes parents happier than seeing their kids be acknowledged by their school for their hard work and dedication!
Why not organize something similar for your chapter? The exec team can create titles that speak to the members’ contributions, even if it’s just making people’s days brighter with their awesome style. Or that one member who managed to convince literally everyone to buy a Stanley Quencher.
Prepare certificates, dress up the chapter house all fancy, have a Michelin star-worthy spread, and give out awards like they’re Amazon gift cards!
Parents’ Weekend is the perfect time to create more memories with your folks while also showing them your campus life. But don’t forget to order custom shirts for Parents’ Weekend, alright? We’re serious when we say that parents love souvenirs!