LimiTV partners with area
agencies, youth clubs, community groups and merchants to support area
schools in providing TV-free events for the national TV-Turnoff Week campaign
each spring.
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LimiTV works all year to inform parents about how to improve children's learning and health through limiting TV and identify alternative activities.
Join the Network
TV-Turnoff Week
in the
Triangle
......See How Full Life Can Be
April 20-26, 2009
What is TV-TURNOFF?
Why Host a TV-Turnoff?
Become a Volunteer
Screen-free activities for the week are limited only by the
imagination!
This site is a work in progress - please visit again.
Your suggestions and comments are welcomed...
WhoParticipates?
Anyone and Everyone!
Getting Started....
Download these easy 'How To' documents and you'll be on your way
Organizing is Easy:
Getting the
Most out of TV -Turnoff Week
Time Table Worksheet
Start with finding out how
much television you do watch
Families
Host
a TV-Turnoff in Your School
Get the family together and decide what
activities you want to replace watching TV with, playing video games or
surfing the net. Put it on the calendar!
Get your neighbors
involved by having a a TV-free night with board games or a
neighborhood treasure hunt
Look on the TV-Turnoff Network website
for more information and read their
message
board about how other families are reducing television in their
homes.
Libraries
Host
a TV-Turnoff in Your Library
Provide a game night or
library treasure hunt for children
Display appropriate books for the week that promote doing more reading,
more crafts, more alternative activities
Bring in a local poet or
author,
Have a puppet show, or a poetry slam for older children.
Here's a suggested list of
books
Essential Tools
PledgeCard
Use this template to sign up everyone and go SCREEN-free for seven
days!
Sample Parent Letter
Get families underway at school with this letter announcing the upcoming
TV-Turnoff Week Event
FAQ's
Get the most common questions about TV-Turnoff answered here
Here's a short list of activity ideas..
Elementary
Middle and HighSchools
Hosting a TV-Turnoff Flyer for
School Flyer
Library
Visit the national founding organization of
TV-Turnoff Week
TV-Turnoff Network
MERCHANTS AND
ORGANIZATIONS
P
support
an area school by arranging fun, screen-free activities for an evening, or
offer discounts or donate merchandise as incentives
P
hang
posters and flyers in public areas.
P
link http://www.tvturnoff.org/ and http://www.limitv.org/ to your website.
P
raise
awareness among your members by posting announcements in your newsletter,
or issue a press release in support of the
event.
P display appropriate children's
books and books for adults about media literacy.
Partner
with A
school today!
Tookie's Toys in Cameron Village had a creative event with “Fun without TV” Art Show." Every child who submitted a piece received a Blue Ribbon. Families picked up their pieces at the end of the Week and enjoyed a reception to celebrate their success.
