Event Wristbands for the Memories

Anyone who has been to a concert has encountered souvenir stands where clothing, posters, buttons, stickers, and more are sold to eager fans. These stands and kiosks are ubiquitous at every event venue. We all know concert and festival goers aren’t just there for the show. They want to take the experience with them. From T-shirts emblazoned with the logos of their favorite bands, to the event wristbands slipped on their arms as they passed through the gates of the venue, guests prize paraphernalia that proves they’ve been there.

Tyvek and vinyl wristbands allow you to manage your guests and reward them at the same time. Used in conjunction with event tickets or on their own, these handy crowd management tools allow you to keep track of guests’ coming and going, monitor appropriate alcohol consumption, keep an eye on concessions, and manage the flow of attendees into and out of special events and back stage. Perfect for multi-day events, wristbands can free guests from having to hold onto paper tickets, which might be damaged or lost after their initial use.

Wristbands serve another important function for your guests. Durable, secure and easy to customize, event wristbands make a fun fashion statement. Adorned with your custom design, they look great at the venue and can double as bracelets once the show is over.  Today’s concert wristband is tomorrow’s trendy accessory!

Of course, you’ll want to help guests preserve the integrity of their event wristbands, so they can continue to wear them in the days following your event. Here are a few tips to help maximize this collateral:

• Tyvek wristbands are strong! The material, manufactured by DuPont™, is resilient like plastic, yet comfortable like fabric.
• Wristbands should be loose enough to be comfortably worn, but not so loose they can slip off and be lost or transferred.
• Feel free to move! These event wristbands are waterproof, so guests can work up a sweat on the dance floor or in the mosh pit. And they’re perfect for outdoor events, rain or shine.
• Guests want to make a bold fashion statement, and you want your event to be remembered for a long time. Choose a highly visible logo that wearers will be proud to sport.
• Got environmentally minded guests? No problem! They can make their own statement by recycling Tyvek wristbands at the end of the show.

Your next event is sure to be the source of great memories for all of your attendees. Help get them started making those memories the moment they step through the turnstiles. A colorful, custom wristband might become the most cherished souvenir of the moment and serve as a cool body ornament later on.

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Event Wristbands: What They Do for Me

Tyvek® wristbands used to mean pretty much one thing, as far as I was concerned. You know those paper-plastic bracelets they stick on your wrist, which don’t come off unless you cut them off. It wasn’t so long ago that I thought they were meant exclusively to keep kids away from the bar at large events. At big festivals, we’d often flash our I.D.s to get one, which was usually printed with the logo of some large beer company. Event Wristbands meant beer.

That was before I became involved in events from the other side: the planning aspect. No doubt, from a liability standpoint, over-21 wristbands are still a great asset. They keep me and my bartenders safe from teenagers (you’d be surprised at the number of teens sporting a few gray hairs, or even a bald spot) but they do a lot more. What do I use them for?

• VIP Passes—if there are private rooms or side events, I can keep them exclusive by creating unique wristbands available only to those who pay for the VIP Pass
• Backstage Security—when I’ve booked a popular band, it’s important to keep that backstage area secure, so distinctive wristbands are issued to musicians and those authorized to be back stage
• Staff and Volunteers—my guests and I can easily identify official representatives of the event if I choose a vivid color for their wristbands; a lost child knows who to ask for help, and I can identify my people at a glance
• Event Passes—sometimes I don’t issue tickets in advance, so what’s the point of offering them at the gate? A wristband serves as proof of payment, so we can determine with ease if someone has jumped a fence

This last use surprises some people, who consider these recyclable wristbands something of a luxury. First of all, when I buy them in bulk, I usually get a nice discount from the manufacturer. They’re not expensive at all. In fact, they’re really cheap: substantially cheaper than printing event tickets: we’re talking in the realm of 8 or 9 cents a piece, for a wristband custom printed with the name of my event and my sponsor’s logo. They’re also harder to counterfeit, since they’re made from DuPont’s™ unique Tyvek® material. And I still imprint them with the name and logo of my event, or of my sponsor, for greater visibility.

My favorite thing about party wristbands? I know I’ve hosted a really successful event when I see someone proudly sporting my event wristband a few days after the festival’s ended!

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Accessorize with Wristbands

When your guests are ready for a fun day or night out, they dress the part. A reggae festival brings with it comfortable ensembles, bright colors and dance ready wear. For a fair or carnival, good shoes for walking and a T-shirt you don’t mind getting a little grease from an elephant ear on are more appropriate. A symphony concert might command something more refined, a tie or an elegant gown. And, the accessory that goes with all of them? A custom DuPont Tyvek® wristband!

You Don’t Have to Leave Fashion Behind

When planning your opus event, you don’t have to leave fashion behind! Event Wristbands can be customized to fit any occasion and any audience. Whether your guests walk in straight from the streets or all dressed up as haute elites, you can design and print custom paper bracelets to fit their style and serve your purpose.

For your reggae crowd, go bright with festival wristbands in a variety of colors. Red, yellow, and green wrist bands are the perfect way to show off a little Rasta pride and allow you to manage your crowd effectively, while staying in the groove of the event.

Fairs and carnivals can benefit, too. Manage admission to special events and rides with festive carnival wristbands and make it easier than ever to keep your event secure without sacrificing any of the fun.

You can keep it understated for your fashion forward crowd. Custom wristbands in complementary colors, ensure their outfits won’t clash with the collateral and help you maintain an orderly and dignified event.

Make Art of Wristbands

Of course, you can choose to print Event Wristbands in just one color or you can add your own design, making them one of a kind and even more coveted by your fashionistas! There is room for your own unique image. Imagine your stylish logo or event branding gracing the wrists of hundreds or thousands of guests!

Green is the New Black

If your guests are style conscious, they’ll appreciate the fact that Tyvek® is recyclable. Green is definitely in this season, so show off your commitment to environmental sustainability by giving your guests the option to reduce waste and recycle when they depart the venue.

Function and Form

Tyvek® wristbands for events aren’t just the sought after ornament of your fashion forward guests. They also serve a number of important functions during your big occasion. From security to crowd control, they help your event run smoothly from start to finish.

Not only do they help you to identify who should be at the venue, they allow you to make sure the right guests are in the right places. A coveted backstage visit or special event can be managed quickly and easily, simply by checking the color of your guests’ admission wristbands. If you’re serving drinks, bar wristbands help to make sure that younger guests are not able to imbibe. For added security, you can include sequential numbering or a holographic design in order ensuring authenticity.

Style on a Dime

You don’t have to break the bank in order to print custom wristbands for your event. Inexpensive Tyvek® wristbands can be designed and printed online. Order them in bulk and you may qualify for an added discount. You’ll have revenue left over to buy that fancy outfit you were planning to wear to your successful event!

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Wristbands Make It Easy

If you’ve ever attended a big event, chances are you’ve were outfitted with a DuPont Tyvek® wristband at the gate.  And, chances are, everyone around you had one firmly secured around his or her wrist as well. Admission wristbands have become ubiquitous at festivals and other occasions where they serve many purposes.

Admission, Crowd Control, and Re-entry

Event Wristbands, at their most basic, get guests quickly and safely into the venue. Once inside the event, they provide guests more freedom of movement and provide attendants and security with an easy way to determine whether they should be there. Rather than fumbling for ticket stubs or showing off an entry stamp that might be easily smeared or washed off, guests can simply flash their paper bracelets for identification. If for some reason a guest needs to leave the venue and return, the event wristband makes it simple.  Securely fastened in place, Tyvek® wristbands are durable and last the length of the event.

Security

Event Wristbands help to ensure a secure environment while the event is taking place. They can be printed in a variety of colors or printed with a variety of images to make identification even simpler. From managing who has access to alcoholic beverages, to who is allowed backstage, to which guests are allowed into restricted events, security bracelets make it much easier for you to maintain the safety of your event and help to ensure everyone has a great time.

Event Branding and Sponsor Advertising

Custom made wristbands can be designed with branding, sponsorship, and advertising in mind. Guests have to pay attention to the message because, for the duration of the event, it is a part of them. Tyvek® is printable, so they can be designed to carry the overall branding of the event. If your organization has a logo or a theme for its annual affair, it can be included.

The space can also be used to pay homage to event sponsors. They’ve graciously donated money and time to see your event become a success. Why not donate space so they can promote their message?

Promotional Coupons

Event Wristbands can also play double duty as promotional coupons. Sponsors or advertisers can choose to offer special discounts for guests wearing your wristbands at the time of sale. In this way, these devices provide a usefulness that extends far beyond the venue of your festival or carnival.

Raffles and Door Prizes

Tyvek® wristbands can be individually numbered and printed with a holographic strip that keeps them secure, making them are ideal for managing raffles and door prizes at bigger events. Organizers can run the event much like a traditional raffle, drawing from a pool of number printed on the admission wristbands. Guests need not worry about losing their ticket stub over the course of the day when they can wear their entry into a raffle or door prize competition around their wrists!

Keepsakes

When guests attend an event that they enjoy, they want to take something with them that will help them to remember. Many individuals collect custom wristbands from events they’ve attended, so they can relive the memories later on.

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Event Wristbands at Art Events

The best art events are whirlwinds of color and greyscale, cacophony and music, insiders and outsiders. There’s the wine and cheese set, hosting events in galleries with clean lines and clean floors. There’s the bohemian aesthetic of an art event that takes place in a crumbling factory or foreboding alley. There are impoverished students seeking a little culture and wealthy benefactors searching for their next big investment. There are curators, critics, artists, dealers, and appreciators of art from the general public. How are you, the event promoter, to discern among them at a glance?  Consider the humble Event Wristband, a mere slip of Tyvek that provides broad exposure and keeps your event efficient and organized. If you could tag everyone who walked through the door according to type, wouldn’t that help all these disparate elements communicate more effectively?

An array of colorful Event Wristbands, provided at the door of a large art event, along with a key to help attendees understand what each color means, is a smart way to organize your guests.

Purpose in Design: It’s an art event: start with your design decisions and let form follow function. What purpose do you hope your wristbands to accomplish? Consider points of access for your varied guests. Critics may require different access than casual guests, and the wristband can act as a kind of press pass. Dealers in art may need a wristband that provides instant access to auctions and private showings by artists and auction houses. Different color wristbands can denote different functions, and you can further delineate with the addition of an image or logo that might denote a certain portion of the event. For added prestige, you could add a title for the wearer: “Critic,” “Dealer,” “Artist.” Color-coding the bands to instantly show points of access gives you a leg up in organizing. In addition, this can automatically turn an Event Wristband into a status symbol. If artists wear red wristbands that say “Artist”, dealers, curators, and critics instantly know who they need to talk to about accessing shows or an artist’s work. Even a mere “Art Lover” will enjoy having her status identified with pride.

Who’s Who: Niche crowds like those interested in the arts possess a natural hierarchy. Using custom, quality wristbands can highlight and incentivize these inherent hierarchies. First of all, wristbands provide natural exposure to your event, particularly if it takes place over several days, or is a long event where participants may leave and reenter the venue. That bright red “Artist” wristband attracts attention and instigates questions about what’s going on in that gallery across the street. Second, these various levels of wristbands create a “who’s who” status symbols for your visitors. Artists and dealers can find one another with ease, and no one will inadvertently insult a critic or a journalist. (On the other hand, this system can make it easier to deliberately insult a critic or a journalist.) Everyone knows instantly to whom they need to speak to during the duration of the event (and also who to avoid). Everyone can show off their accomplishments without overtly bragging.

Annuals, Biennials, Triennials: Large art events such as annuals, biennials, and triennials are attended by many people from a variety of diverse backgrounds in the industry. People from all over the world with diverse industry backgrounds also attend these events. Consider incorporating the wearer’s language into the wristband design for added organization and prestige. For example, the Whitney Biennial in New York City will have a lot of Americans in attendance, many of whom will be bilingual. The color-coded system may prove really helpful. A wristband that alerts others that one speaks Spanish and Italian will be a welcome sight to international visitors. The status of the polyglot, proudly donning 12 different colored wristbands, cannot be overlooked in this scenario. Her popularity among the international crowd will be assured.

Using quality custom Event Wristbands is a masterstroke in creating memorable, organized success, especially if your event will be large, diverse, and cater to a niche crowd where networking is a necessity.

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Using Your Event Wristbands for Guerilla Marketing

Sure, it’s sneaky, but that’s the point. When you can get your name, logo, and message under the radar of today’s media-savvy consumer with a tiny and unexpected image, in a tiny and unexpected place, you’ve accomplished more than the most expensive ad campaign often does. Guerilla marketing makes sense and saves money, and your customizable Event Wristbands, used correctly, fill that need for you. Turn a basic security device into a stealth marketing tools for your company or organization. Paying close attention to the quality of the wristbands as well as their design can showcase your company or organization to those who aren’t event attending your event.

Designing

In many cases, your guests will wear your Event Wristbands outside your event, particularly if your event span multiple days and they choose to eat something that wasn’t prepared in a convention hall. Remember, if you’ve taken the trouble to create an interesting wristband and branded the festival effectively, some guests will continue to wear that paper bracelet for some days afterward; it becomes a status symbol, signifying that they were there, at the party of the century.

So, you want to be sure to prominently feature your company or organization’s logo, where everyone can see it. Add other pertinent information such as your website and tagline, something that allows the viewing public to learn a little more about your services. Eye-catching colors help make your wristbands noticeable, and the design should be something eye-catching, too, so that passersby and casual observers can’t help but see. Beyond this, your Event Wristbands should be made of a durable, waterproof material, such as DuPont Tyvek, that will withstand the wear and use of those attending your event. Paying mind to these basic principles can directly affect the success of this built-in advertising.

At Your Event

If you offer multiple layers of access at your event, color-coded wristbands become instant status symbols. While you’re keeping your event secure and organized, you’re also offering subtle suggestions to the crowd that they could be experiencing more: special events and extra perks, available for just a little more money. Offer the ability to upgrade at any time, or just remind people to plan ahead they can be VIPs next year. If a certain colored wristband offers access to private parties, VIP lounges, better food, or meet and greets with featured speakers or artists, it’s easy for your staff to see who belongs where, and it’s easy for your guests to see who’s getting the celebrity treatment. If it’s a corporate event, those special wristbands may motivate some staff to work harder in the hopes of achieving more privileges next year.

Exposure

Durable Event Wristbands provide extra publicity for multi-day events. Your participants will wear them for the duration of the event, advertising your organization to everyone who sets foot near that venue. Many guests will probably leave the venue, if only to get some better coffee or pick up some necessities at the drug store, providing you with extra exposure. When the public begins to see many people wearing these colorful paper bracelets around town, they’re bound to ask what’s going on. Remember, for stealth marketing, the most successful wristbands will be those with eye-catching colors and designs. For high-profile and trendy events, your wristbands may turn into instantly recognizable symbols, identifying who was there, and encouraging those who weren’t to buy tickets for your next event.

For added exposure, give your guests a reason to step outside the event. Partner with local businesses to offer coupons in conjunction with the event that tempt people to spend a little more, or, negotiate with these businesses to let the wristband itself serve as the coupon. Provide a list of shops where flashing that bracelet gets them a discount. Another way to leverage to power of the Event Wristband is to organize a march, vigil, or other outdoor activity. When confronted with masses of folks, all wearing the same colorful wristband, the locals will start asking questions, and your marketing efforts start to pay off.

Wristbands are Better than Tickets

Tickets are silent. Once the stub is torn away, the ticket ends up in a pocket, only to be removed if there is a dispute over seating, or if your guest enjoyed your event so much they decide to display the stub on a mirror, cork board, or refrigerator. Do you want to restrict the viewing of your great design work to the person collecting tickets? Customized, Event Wristbands provide valuable, subtle exposure for your business, event, or organization: an instant and functional guerrilla marketing tool.

Consider quality, custom-designed Event Wristbands for your company or organization’s next event in addition to, or in place of tickets. They help with organization and security, and provide an inherent marketing tool while showcasing the status of individuals within your company or organization. This will make the event efficient and navigable to guests who desire to network with others in their field, or who share their interests. Event wristbands make your next event special, with the added bonus of marketability.

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Recycling Colored Event Wristbands for Cool DIY Crafts!

Times are green, and breathing new life into unlikely old objects is hot. Repurposing recyclables to create something cool and functional is not just great fun. It can also be great business. Tyvek Event Wristbands are among those unlikely craft supplies. Reusing wristbands gathered and saved from events, you can create wallets, key chains, jewelry, and even artwork. Creating something new from Event Wristbands saves the energy it would take to recycle them (or keeps them out of the trash) while adding flair to your style or to your living room!

*  From Wristband to Wallet: Wallets and purses made from a variety of odd materials are ending up as progressive trendy accessories. Wallets are being made from plastic bags, old public transit cards, and even old stationary, like greeting cards. Event Wristbands are another great and durable material to use to create wallets. Tyvek is strong enough to withstand the test of time and use, plus this material creates something that works as a trendy conversation starter. The easiest way to create such a wallet would be to figure out a weave that will be aesthetically pleasing and work to hold the wallet together. The backing can be as simple as colored duct tape, which binds the outside of the wallet: a weave you’ve created from your variety of saved wristbands.

*  From Wristband to Jewels: You can even roll and cut the wristbands to a desired size to create unique and trendy jewelry. Earrings or even a keychain are especially good ideas if you have only a few saved event wristbands since they don’t require as much material as a wallet or even a clutch purse. With only a couple wristbands, you can create enough Tyvek beads to make a nice pair of earrings or other charms. While adding style to your outfit, they also act as keepsake reminders of music festivals and other events you have attended. And if you and a group of friends go to a music festival, creating things from your wristbands afterward lets you extend the fun you have had at the festival.

*  From Wristband to Hanging Artwork: Using an inexpensive canvas, paper, or even repurposed wood, you can create hanging artwork out of your Event Wristband. Be creative in composing the piece, feeling free to cut the wristband into shapes or lines. Tyvek can be glued, sewed, or attached with most types of adhesive.

*  From Wristband to Sculpture: If freestanding art is more your thing, you can also use the wristbands to build sculptural pieces that will act as conversation-starters in your living room. Cut them up into organic shapes to create a modern flower arrangement, or make something abstract. Making a sculpture will give your reuse of the wristbands a more dimensional, interactive quality that is also trendy and wholly unique.

Reusing your event wristbands gives you an opportunity to stretch your creative muscles, stay green, and create an instant keepsake of a variety of events you have attended. Having a get-together with friends to repurpose the wristbands is another fun way to breathe new life into a one-time-use object. It’s cool to be green.

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Using Quality Wristbands for End-of-School-Year Fun Days

Some schools host an annual Field Day, full of outdoor activities and competition, but when I was in elementary school, our last day of school was called Fun Day. It was a day of games and fun in the schoolyard, and we played Tug-of-War and other classic games. Sometimes classes or grades were pitted against one another, other times we played boys versus girls, or chose our own teams, but most administrators today understand how that can get out of hand. If you want to keep any event organized, the addition of Event Wristbands can be a great boon. You can make your school’s Field Day or Fun Day an organized and successful day of excitement for all involved, with customized, colored wristbands, which provide teachers and kids alike with a visual way of remaining with their given teams.

* Designing the Wristbands: Use the opportunity of using customized, colored wristbands to add some flair to the day! In advance of the big day, you can allow teams to create their own designs, hold an all-school contest to choose everyone’s favorite logo, or use an image you already have on file, such as your school’s icon or mascot. Then, you can print your wristbands online, creating wristbands that define your teams, provide your school with some extra advertising, and serve as souvenirs of the best day ever.

* Getting Students Involved in the Design: Teachers may desire to have their students choose a team name and design their own logo. These can easily be added to the wristband. Just get your kids into their teams and ask them to work together to decide on a name, a color, and a design or logo for their team. Provide them with stickers, stencils, and pictures for inspiration. Animal pictures can really inspire some creative mascots. This activity can set the tone for the whole day of games and fun, fostering a sense of teamwork and creative thinking even before the kids get outside. Remember, durable, waterproof DuPont Tyvek wristbands will really withstand the wear and tear of your active students.

* Activities for Colored Wristbands: In addition to Tug-of-War, other games can also utilize the color-coded wristbands that will keep your teams organized on this fun, yet chaotic, day in the schoolyard. Classic games like tag and a safe, less physical version of Red Rover all will work well with the colored team wristbands, which also make it easy to join smaller groups together to create bigger teams. Try other games like kickball and even fun trivia games that use knowledge learned throughout the school year, and be sure to ask the students for their input. Their ideas may surprise you! Whatever you choose, being able to identify and organize your students based on easily visible wristbands will make transitions fast and simple.

* Turning the Wristbands into Keepsakes: After coming in from the outdoors, teachers may plan arts and crafts activities that use the wristbands from the day. Many parents keep scrapbooks of their children’s activities, so a keepsake will be very much appreciated by the parents. Something as simple as mounting the wristbands on colored construction paper that the kids may decorate would work, or something as complex as turning it into a craft object like a pencil holder can also create a keepsake for students and parents.

Durable quality colored wristbands that are waterproof will stand the test of activity in the schoolyard, as well as the test of time as a keepsake. Keeping large, active school events organized and fun is very important to keeping the day safe, efficient, and fair for all. Colored wristbands are a great way to achieve a successful school event like Fun Day!

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Using Quality Waterproof Wristbands for a Multiple-Day Event

Big events can translate to big fun, whether that means a long weekend of nonstop music, a week-long athletic competition, or a company getaway that includes your employees’ families. Large events spanning multiple days usually take place in large venues, often with a large variety of activities. If you need to control access to different parts of the overall event, high-quality, colored, waterproof wristbands do the job, so you can keep your event organized and maintain your own peace of mind about security. Wristbands are an efficient way for you to identify your guests, and DuPont Tyvek wristbands are soft, flexible, comfortable and waterproof, so your participants can continue to wear their wristbands for the duration of the event, and perhaps for some days afterward!

* Designing Your Quality Waterproof Wristbands: If you’ll offer different levels of access, you’ll want color-coded wristbands to denote who can go where. Choose vibrant and distinct colors to immediately allow access to different parts of your event. For example, a gold wristband could mean unlimited access to all parts of the event including meals, swimming pools, and so forth. A green wristband could denote special access to the vendors’ floor. Blue wristbands could be assigned to speakers, volunteers, or other special guests. Determine how many different levels of participation you’ll offer and choose the perfect colors for each.

Every Event Wristband should include some basic information, such as your organization’s name, along with the name of the event. You might also include the venue and the dates. Also, you’ll probably want include your organization’s logo. If your participants leave the event for part of the day, they’ll still be wearing their wristbands: a bold and well-placed logo on a brightly colored wristband works as a stealth advertisement: an instant marketing tool for your company and your event.

* Getting a Handle on Your Event’s Venue: All-company events in large hotels or convention centers can benefit from the use of colored wristbands. They can help your employees identify each other and ensure they end up in the right place. For instance, you could color-code based on individual employee’s status within the company. Consider offering sales representatives green wristbands that denote access to all the panels about sales and marketing, while the I.T. team gets blue wristbands for technology panels. Your vice presidents and higher ups can have access to all panels and parts of the event. You can further ensure order by color-coding the rooms, speakers, or panels themselves, so that your employees know at a glance if they’re in the right place, because their wristbands will match the space.

Or, consider the venue’s available services as you determine points of access. Will there be private parties on some nights, or receptions to which on certain levels of management are invited? Multiple dining options, or optional day trips? Event Wristbands allow you to organize and assort your guests in whatever way makes sense to you

* Making the Wristbands Durable: Make sure, too, that you create your customized, quality wristbands out of waterproof material since your participants will be wearing them for several days, and many of them may be swimming. The waterproof material will also help them last through weather and general wear during the event. Tyvek is the material of choice for high-quality wristbands. It feels almost like paper, but it’s tough like plastic, and so comfortable your guests will forget they’re wearing it. It’s even recyclable! Once they go on, these wristbands stay on until they’re cut off, so you can rest easy, knowing that they’ll last for your entire event.

* Wristbands to Work as Identifiers of Status: If your group is large and hierarchical, your wristbands’ color can indicate where on the ladder participants are stationed. This can provide the event with added texture: attendees can identify others with the same level or position, or, if they seek to move up, they can determine with whom they may want to communicate with during the event. These delineations can also motivate your employees to achieve more. Perhaps at the next event, they can experience the prestige and privilege that comes with the next level of wristbands.

* For Families: Events for families can especially benefit from wristbands if there are to be various levels of age-appropriate activities. Color-code children’s to denote age: grade school kids will need different activities than tweens, while teenagers will need their own areas (and be grateful to you for keeping the younger kids out). Of course, this system can also help you keep older teens out of adults-only areas! You shouldn’t have to be policing the bar all week, or policing serious events for childish infractions. As an added benefit, these wristbands can help your staff determine where lost children belong if any should happen to wander away from their designated areas.

Using quality, colored wristbands that are waterproof will allow long-time use for your guests and their families. Including your group or event’s logo and name will also act as a marketing tool when participants are outside of the event itself. If you’re looking for a higher level of organization, security, and peace of mind, Event Wristbands can take you where you need to go.

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Customizable color wristbands can make your business's or organization's regular events to boost teamwork among employees more fun and efficient. Need to divide employees into different groups for corporate team building exercises? Color-coded and individually numbered Event Wristbands make it a cinch. You can create large groups of odds or evens (or, if your group is mathematically inclined, using more complicated functions) and smaller groups based on a random distribution of colors. Just order as many different colors as you need groups and ask each participant to choose a wristband. Or, pass out the wristbands yourself if you want to create your own groups.

Here’s an example of one team-building exercise to kick off the festivities.

Begin with a selection of colored Event Wristbands: each participant gets a color, and each color becomes a team. For this exercise, you will also need several large ropes with different types of knots tied throughout (maybe 4 knots per rope). The object will be to untie each knot, and the team to do so first will win. But this is the main task, be sure to utilize the wristbands throughout the event to create a variety of team-building exercises.

*  Colored Wristbands as the First Step to Team-Building: When you begin with colored wristbands, you’ll be able to easily identify each group by color. To make it even more unique and fun, let the first team exercise be coming up with a team name using the assigned color. For example, a red team may decide to call themselves the “red roses” and a green team may call themselves the “green giants,” and so on. In addition to a team name using the color, they can also design a logo for their team. This can even be done before an event at an office meeting, in which case, team names and logos can be printed on the Event Wristbands in advance, for greater team cohesion.

*  The Best Name and Design: You’ll want a panel of judges to declare the winners of the exercises. Points can be awarded in advance for winning designs and team names. Some companies will randomly choose their panelists, or you can wrangle some supervisors for the task, whichever is more fitting to your event. The judges will have to come to a consensus in choosing the winner of the name and design on the wristband, so this, too, will require teamwork on the part of the judges.

*  After the Winning Design is Unanimously Chosen: After the winning team for design and name on the wristband is chosen by the panel, that team will be permitted to choose which of the knotted ropes they will untie. The rope, therefore, should comprise a diverse variety of knots of difficulty. The winning team’s prize is the power to, as a team, figure out which rope has the knots that they would mostly easily untie. The remaining teams can be assigned to other ropes by the panel of judges, or, if ranking has been assigned to the previous contests, let that determine the order.

*  Untying the Knots: After the team with the winning wristband design and team name chooses their rope, the teams will begin to untie the knots. Teamwork and communication is imperative in untying the knots in the rope, so it is a very good exercise for communication and teamwork. The first team to successfully untie all of the knots in their rope will win the exercise. Depending on the event, prizes will be awarded to the team who finishes first.

Of course, that’s only one exercise. Once you’ve used your Event Wristbands to divide your company into groups, the day’s work has just begun. There are plenty of team-building exercises to help you create cohesion and unity.

Exercises like this require teamwork and communication, just as the design and team name on the customized wristbands requires strong teamwork and communication. This exercise can be adapted to a variety of businesses and organization employing team-building exercises at an event.

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