Post a video or photos on social media. Record or take photos of students doing activities and share with parents and the community via Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram TV (IGTV), Facebook, Twitter
Use our social tools:
- Use the #LightsOnAfterschool tag — see our sample posts for inspiration
- Post Lights On graphics on your website and social media channels
- Update your Facebook profile pic with our Lights On frame
- Take pictures of small groups doing the Lightbulb Challenge and post to social media

Decorate your community with posters and student lightbulb artwork
- Post in your facility’s windows – and provide artwork to families, partners and local businesses to post in their windows
- Turn your Lights On posters into yard signs and send home for students to post, or post a gallery of student artwork as yard signs in front of your facility or school
- Put up posters on community boards in grocery stores, parks, libraries
Coordinate a car or bike parade for your students
Have students make huge Lights On chalk sidewalk drawings
Post messages on school marquees and signs outside of faith-based institutions
Ask community landmarks to light up for afterschool on October 28, or consider lighting up your program facility, having students light up the outside of their houses with string lights, projectors, or flashlights on phones.
- Or use our Jack-O-Lantern lightbulb stencil!
Proclamations declaring Lights On Afterschool can be made by your mayor, governor, local officials, or even by organizations.