If you’re a Parks & Recreation Dept

If you’re a Parks & Recreation Dept

A mural works well for Parks Departments or Military Bases in so many ways.  You need big, fun activities for your community events, summer camps, day care, after-school programs or mobile recreation.  There may be several departments who can share a mural—and the cost—for all of their events.

Product Recommendations

Rollable Wipeable Plastic
This is the most common Wall-Size mural for Parks Departments.  Go with this when you have several different community events throughout the year. If your events are in different parts of town, the Rollable is the easiest to transport, and also to display if you also purchase our mural stand. 

Single Use Tarp
This also makes sense for your big community festivals or base events, where you just need one big activity, or have a particular theme just for the event. This also can be free-standing if you rent or purchase our stand stand.  This might also make sense if you have a series of smaller events or activities, like Summer Camps, and want an activity with one big result.

Table-Size Coloring Sheets
These are our most common popular product with Parks & Rec departments. They work really well at summer camps, after school activities or smaller community events.  They're about the size of an 8' rental table, and work well with crayons.  Keep a bunch in the closet to pull out whenever you need them.  They take quite a lot of participation to finish, and note that you can also flip them over to have 15 square feet of free coloring space on the back.

Thoughts on How to Use Them

Use it for Community Special Events

A mural is an excellent activity for your large special events where you need extra activities, like July 4th events, Spring/Fall Festivals, Street Fairs, Cultural Festivals, etc. It's big and colorful, can accommodate hundreds of participants through the day, and brings a nice warm-and-fuzzy feeling to your event site.

We can tailor the mural design with the wording/messaging that you're trying to get across—whether that be healthy eating, water safety, come use the new bike trail system, etc.  We have hundreds of stock designs ready to go.

For military bases, we have dozens of designs with service members in uniform, ships, planes, etc. from most service branches. 

Use it for Summer Camps

One of our big Wall-Size murals can be a great long-term activity for your summer camps. You could use one of our big Single-Use Murals over the entire summer--perhaps designating sections of the mural for each week of camp to complete. Or consider a smaller Wipeable mural that you could wipe off and restart every few days.

We also have our Table Size Coloring Sheets—our most popular product for camps. These are smaller—about the size of 8' Rental Tables—relatively inexpensive, and easy to just throw out on a table at a moments notice.

Do You Also Have Day Care Areas?

Consider a small Rigid Wipeable mural for a Day Care area, where you could use Crayola Brand Washable Markers and wipe off to start fresh each day. (Warning! Crayons do not wipe off, so you'd need to keep it separate from your crayon coloring areas.)

Our Table Size Coloring Sheets would also be a nice activity to keep around. Since day care would have fewer kids than community events or camps, our Table Sheets would last a VERY long time. You could pull one out and have coloring time every week or so. And remember you also have the blank back side for free coloring!

Use it in General Common Areas

If you have a well-supervised common area where you'd like to engage your participants, a Wipeable Mural might work well.

Do You Have a Mobile Recreation Unit?

If you have a mobile recreation unit, where you take recreation activities out to the community, this would be a nice addition, and a way to reinforce some of your themes, like healthy eating, getting outside and play, available activities at parks or facilities, etc.