III. Promote recreation for everybody through -

1. Recreation periods at parent-teacher meetings, conferences, conventions
2. Family play; neighborhood recreation

3. Cooperation with youth in the development of programs which meet their
needs

4, Personal participation in recreation for the sheer fun of it

if,

 

A recreation committee or group of association or council members who are especi-
ally interested in studying recreation might form themselves into a study group.
For this purpose the pamphlet, "Recreation - A Major Community Problem," is
recommended, supplemented with the book "The Theory of Play," as a reference. See
the Parent-Teacher Guidebook sections on Recreation, Art, Music, Library Service.
Many interesting studies and experiments could be planned. Such groups, reporting
back to their associations, can be of incalculable value in stimulating activities
in the field of recreation by making specific recommendations supported by their
studies,

V. Use of resources

Every local parent-teacher association should know where to turn for advice and
assistance on any phase of recreation work. Let us keep them informed about the
services - offered through our state and national office, the Farm Bureau, the
extension divisions of state colleges and universities, recreation departments,
the National Recreation Association and its district representatives in different
parts of the country, and the state offices of the Federal emergency agencies -
W.P.A, and N.Y.A,

BIBLIOGRAPHY -

National Congress of Parents and Teachers Publications:

Parent-Teacher Guidebook. See Recreation, Art, Music, Rural Service, Reading and
Library Service, Character and Spiritual Education, Education for Home and Family
Life, Juvenile Protection, and Radio.

The Rural P,T.A. Leaflet,

Proceedings. Annual renort of national chairman on Recreation and report of
Recreation Conference at National Convention.

Qur Homes, Select chapters on various phases of recreation in the home,

National Parent-Teacher Magazine. A list of articles on recreation may be ob-

tained from the National Office.