Red Ribbon Ideas For Educators
Here are some ideas to make this year's Red Ribbon Week celebration the best yet!

- Use Red Ribbon Week as an opportunity to continue talking to your students about the dangers of drugs.
- Work with the PTSA To Plan a School-Wide Red Ribbon Rally.
- Tell your students to enter the Red Ribbon Photo Contest for a chance to win an iPad for the student and his/her family - and $1,000 for your school.
- Use our social media tips to post Red Ribbon Week messages on your Facebook and Twitter accounts.
- Encourage your students to take a stab at creating the 2019 National Red Ribbon Theme. Gain national recognition and $500 of Red Ribbon theme merchandise for your school. This year's theme was created by a student at Solon Middle School in Solon, Ohio.
- Access Natural High’s free celebrity drug prevention program, share celebrity videos in your classroom and use their free Common Core Standards-based curriculum to inspire a conversation with your students.
- Talk to parents and students about securing and taking inventory of their home medicine cabinets to prevent prescription drug abuse.
- Write an article about the importance of Red Ribbon Week in your school's Parent Newsletter.
- Contact a local governmental official about declaring October 23rd-31st Red Ribbon Week in your community.
- Plan fun celebration days during Red Ribbon Week, such as Wear Red Day, Put A Cap On Drugs (Hat Day), Put A Sock On Drugs Day, Be On A Drug Free Team Day (Wear Your Favorite Team Gear), Shade Out Drugs Day (Wear Sunglasses), etc.

- Organize essay contests incorporating this year's theme: A Healthy Me Is Drug Free.
- Sign the Red Ribbon Pledge.
- Decorate the interior and exterior of your school.
- Organize a Miles of Quarters Campaign to support prevention.
- Organize Door Decorating Contests.
- Invite parents and families to a special health fair or education program.
- Plan a Walk Out On Drugs Walk-a-thon.
- Create a banner and ask all students, faculty and parents to sign it, pledging to be drug free.
- Have high school sign red construction paper strips to encourage middle school youth to be drug free. Make the strips into a chain and hang it up in the middle school lobby for the youth to see with a sign stating that the high school students encourage them to not use alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. (Contributed by Susan Foster - add your best activity below to be added to our list!)
- Encourage your food services department to serve meals made of healthy, red-colored food. (Contributed by the Milton Community Youth Coalition in Vermont)
- Check out what other prevention organizations are offering to make your Red Ribbon Week the most impactful yet at www.redribbon.org/resources
- Insert Your Best Idea Here. Add suggestions to the comment section below. We'll filter out the best and add them to this list!
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