We had our first Middle School Fun Night of the year 2 weeks ago. We stopped having middle school dances at Lincoln Lutheran about 4 or 5 years ago after a poorly supervised dance and a poorly done lock-in. But a few years ago we decided to have “Fun Nights” instead. We have a dance, a dodgeball tournament, a game room, snackbar, face painting and photography studio. We let the seniors run everything and they take any profits after everything is paid for. But that’s not what I wanted to write about.
We have the best dance decorations and they take about 15 minutes to setup. I bring in one of our iMacs and a couple of video projectors and we project giant 20ft by 30ft images on the gym walls. You get cool shadows when the kids dance in front of them and a nice variety of images: spacescapes, forest scenes, underwater images and abstract “flurries†shifting and dancing around the walls. Cleanup is easy too.