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5 Related articles you might find helpful are listed below this blog post (click on the title of this article, if you don’t see topics listed below)…
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You’re invited to receive our FREE Hospital Clown/Healthcare Family Entertainer/Applied Humor Therapist/SmileMaker e-Newsletter… by signing up to receive FREE Hospital Clown e-Newsletter (click on this link here) Always FREELY offered since 2007, AHeart4Clowning e-Newsletter is filled with FUN ideas, tips, inspiring stories and updates!
Resources – Guides on: How to Establish a Hospital Clown or Healthcare Family Entertainer Group, and Entertaining in the Healthcare Setting, click this linked text (here)
Share Miles of Smiles: Funny Smilemakerz Kit + MORE for Smiles on a Stick and Endless Smiles
Click here for Miles of Smiles: Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE
Funny Smile Makerz have been popular for years with a lot of folks all over the place wanting to share smiles!
Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE is now available on our established Podclass platform. Podclass is the awesome place on the web where we’ve offered our AHeart4Clowning and Healing Humor webinars and audio programs since 2008. It’s a very user-friendly platform you can visit as often as you like, and enjoy our classes, webinars and products ongoing, indefinitely!
Over the years we have offered the Funny Smile Makerz Kit, it has grown, but so has the need! With this in mind, we expanded the Funny Smile Makerz to much more than just an art file to print out…
Funny Smile Makerz have always been able to:
- Easily share Smiles everywhere
- Print as many Smiles as desired, often as needed
- Produce quantities of Smiles in batches
We’ve repackaged and renamed it: Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE — and also included:
- 37 Totally FUN “Bright Ideas” eBook, filled with experienced presentation and production pointers to create more FUN and Smiles
- FUN Printable Label Templates, to share smiles more creatively
- Video Tips
- Easy Printing Tips eBooklet
The Tips and Performance Pointers are designed to help you create a presentation or performance segment built around and using Funny Smiles for all types of audiences and venues. These ideas are based on my tried-and-true experience as a Family Entertainer since 1997. We believe this repackaging offers much more value, service and product, presented in an all-in-one user-friendly environment, organized and easy for you to find, use and enjoy!
- Click here for Miles of Smiles: Check out Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE
This all-NEW very cool version of Funny Smile Makerz Kit is better than ever, with added features, NO waiting, NO email hassles.
Easy! Download and use right now, and when you need them!
- Fast! Or fast as your internet connection (can’t help you there lol)…
- No placing orders for ‘another kit’ or ‘supply,’ hoping to get them in in time!
- No more hoping the order arrives as your ordered, risking disappointment!
- NO shipping charges! NO sales tax!!
- THE most inexpensive way to create Miles of Smiles!
- Can’t find your Funny Smile file downloaded on your computer? It happens, doesn’t it?! No more searching your computer for the art or label templates — easily found and always available in your Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE — just a click away!
Our Promise: If the Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE fee increases — you will pay no additional charges.
When new materials are added to this program, you will receive the value at NO additional charge!
Check out our NEW Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE (click this link)
That’s right! Absolutely NOTHING… and it’s pretty drab, boring, downright cheerless, and probably depressing — for everyone. Don’t let this happen! Add color, smiles and cheer to the healthcare setting near you — TODAY.
“Healing Humor is NOT a Band Aid — it’s a Way of Life.
It’s for EveryBuddy!” ~ Becky Cortino
REMEMBER: A Smile is a terrible thing to waste.
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Resources and other Great Stuff to help you:
5 Related articles you might find helpful are listed below this blog post (click on the title of this article, if you don’t see topics listed below)…
—-AND—-
Resources – Guides on: How to Establish a Hospital Clown or Healthcare Family Entertainer Group, and Entertaining in the Healthcare Setting, click this linked text (here)
—-AND—-
You’re invited to receive our FREE Hospital Clown/Healthcare Family Entertainer/Applied Humor Therapist/SmileMaker e-Newsletter… by signing up to receive FREE Hospital Clown e-Newsletter (click on this link here)
—Share Miles of Smiles: Funny Smilemakerz Kit for Smiles on a Stick and Endless Smiles—
NEW Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE for MORE Smiles!
Recently, I shared with you that due to a change in services provided, our publisher informed some of our products will no longer be available for purchase after July 18th.
In addition to our audio and video products, our Funny Smile Makerz Kit is no longer available for download from our publisher site. Earlier this summer, we relocated the Kit there for ease of purchase and delivery, from the previously-established email delivery system.
Keeping in mind the purpose of this very popular kit, and the kind of work you do, we reviewed possible ways to continue to make the Funny Smile Makerz Kit available. Over these years, it has grown!
We’ve also heard your feedback, thoughts and ideas. You’ve told us how much you’ve enjoyed using the Funny Smile Makerz Kit, and we know the folks who get the Smiles get so much more from the experience.
Based on all this, we determined a redesign was in order, and the best way to offer the Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE was on our established Podclass platform. Podclass is the awesome place on the web where we’ve offered our AHeart4Clowning and Healing Humor webinars and audio programs since 2008. It’s a very user-friendly platform you can visit as often as you like, and enjoy our classes, webinars and products ongoing, indefinitely!
Over the years we have offered the Funny Smile Makerz Kit, it has grown, but so has the need! Keeping all of this in mind, we have expanded this product to much more than just an art file for you to print out…
Funny Smile Makerz have always been able to:
Easily share Smiles everywhere
Print as many Smiles as desired, often as needed
Produce quantities of Smiles in batches
We’ve repackaged and renamed it: Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE — and also included:
- 37 Totally FUN “Bright Ideas” eBook, filled with experienced presentation and production pointers to create more FUN and Smiles
- FUN Printable Label Templates, to share smiles more creatively
- Video Tips
- Easy Printing Tips eBooklet
The Tips and Performance Pointers are designed to help your create a presentation or performance segment built around and using Funny Smiles for all types of audiences and venues. These ideas are based on my tried-and-true experience as a Family Entertainer since 1997. We believe this repackaging offers much more value, service and product, presented in an all-in-one user-friendly environment, organized and easy for you to find, use and enjoy!
NEW Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE
This all-NEW version of Funny Smile Makerz Kit is better than ever, with added features, NO waiting, NO email hassles.
Easy! Download and use right now, and when you need them!
Fast! Or fast as your internet connection (can’t help you there lol)…
No placing orders for ‘another kit’ or ‘supply,’ hoping to get them in in time!
No more hoping the order arrives as your ordered, risking disappointment!
NO shipping charges! NO sales tax!!
THE most inexpensive way to create Miles of Smiles!
Our Promise: If the Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE fee increases — you will pay no additional charges. When new materials are added to this program, you will receive the value at NO additional charge!
Check out our NEW Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE (click this link)
Celebrate International Mirth Month!
International Mirth Month is upon us — how will you celebrate?!
“International Mirth Month” is a humor-based celebration developed by the world’s ONLY “Jollytologist” Allen Klein, “to help people turn their Maalox Moments into more mirthful ones.”
In my interview last month with THE “Jollytologist” himself, for the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, Allen shared ways to use humor in coping.
It’s an established fact that the simple act of laughter has powerful physiological and psychological results. We feel better when we “lighten up,” don’t we?
The effect is not really just “in our heads,” as there are physiological reasons for this phenomenon…
Ongoing research continues, and points out the incredible positive effects humor has on the body. Humor and laughter do offer documented health benefits:
- Physiologically, laughter causes a similar exhilarating effect of strenuous exercise.
- Laughing increases oxygen intake and in the process, replenishes and invigorates cells.
- Through the action of laughter, the body’s threshold to withstand pain is increased, immunity is boosted, while relieving stress.
Research shows humor provides physical health benefits including:
Stronger immune system
Improved cardiovascular health
Reduced stress hormones
Reduced pain Muscle relaxation
…and more!
Mental health benefits, resulting in:
Less stress
Reduced anger and anxiety
Increased joy
More positive, optimistic mood
Sense of control
Increased emotional intelligence
…and more!
Humor in the Healthcare Setting
Growing evidence points out that most patients welcome the opportunity for humor and laughter during their hospital stay. This might seem to defy common sense — after all, if someone is sick enough to be in the hospital, would they actually feel like laughing? Absolutely!
One of the most effective ways of making therapeutic benefits of humor available in an ongoing and regular basis to patients is through daily interaction with the hospital staff. This can be accomplished by a Humor Program in the facility, supported by the staff and volunteers.
Humor offered and applied in this venue, helps reduce patient anxiety and tension, while promoting healing and coping with life circumstance. The affect of therapeutic humor is to provide a positive balance to a negatively-perceived or actual situation or condition.
Throughout the ages, man has recognized a correlation between mirth or humor and healing.
The earliest reliably recorded source is the Bible. About the effects of the presence of humor in our lives, Scripture says:
“A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.” ~ Proverbs 15:30
“but the cheerful heart, has a continual feast” ~ Proverbs 15:15
“A cheerful heart is good medicine.” ~ Proverbs 17:22
So — from all of us here at AHeart4Clowning: “Happy International Mirth Month”! How will you celebrate? Each-and-every-day, and well — we hope!
An added treat to help you celebrate: Jollytolgist Allen Klein was quoted, along with other notables in Psychology Today’s “25 Quotes on Humor” (to read, click this link here)
Are you interested in learning more about Healing Humor…
Healing Humor: Live Happy – Be Healthy (2 formats — your choice of: Audio CD (physical product) — OR — online Home Study with Audio and Printables – click on text links of choice)
Learn more about Applied Humor Therapy: Injecting Healing Humor in the Healthcare Setting…
From the Heart: Injecting Healing Humor in the Healthcare Setting (book – click link here)
Are you always ready to share Smiles? Here’s a great E-A-S-Y way…
On February 17th AHeart4Clowning TalkRadio Show kicked off our 4th consecutive broadcast season, with a very special guest: therapeutic clown Kathy “Piccolo” Keaton. Here is a great vid that shows the work she does, spreading happiness and laughter in the healthcare setting:
Kathy is one of the featured instructors at Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor (AATH) Conference April 7-11th, Buena Vista Palace Hotel & Spa (Disneyworld) Florida. This year, there are 3 therapeutic clowning sessions being offered! I know all of the instructors, and think you will thoroughly enjoy their classes… Check this cool conference out — for more information: http://www.aath.org/conference.htm
Last year, I was honored to present on How to Establish a Hospital Clown or Healthcare Family Entertainer Group at the AATH Conference. To read my impressions of it, click this link here
AHeart4Clowning now offers a Home Study based on my presentation: Work of Heart: Establishing Hospital Clown/Healthcare Entertainer Group – Train/Prep/Equip, for program details, click this link here
There are additional suggested related links listed below, including a link to the post about our AHeart4Clowning TalkRadio Show interview, in case you would like to tune in…
’tis always the season for Hospital and Caring Clowns to share their hearts and to give lots of smiles! One of the fun things about making Clown Rounds is having a little leave-behind, or a small token as a reminder of the visit. Of course stickers often come to mind, but there are many things that can be made at low to almost no cost — simple is best. But do keep in mind the facility guidelines, and get any item approved before you begin handing it out.
Here is a nifty-gifty basket I just made up for our next Clown Rounds… I purchased this cardboard ‘handbag’ from a crafts store, in the party section, and filled it with fun small give-away items.
TIP: Make your own gift basket or bag by cutting the bottom off a cereal box to the desired height, cover it with fun contact paper (so you can wipe it clean, for hygiene). Attach your handle with brads or knotted yarn, rope or ribbons, fill it with cool stuff — and away you go!
Great Give-away: Make Miles of Smiles with the Funny Smile Makerz Kit
Share Your Smile Everyday - Make the World More Beautiful!
Join this worthwhile-wonder-full worldwide celebration, won’t you?!
On 10-10-10 Wherever in the World you are!
Begun by my friend Bronwyn Roberts in Australia.
More info: http://letslaugh.com.au/smileproject
About: My friend Certified Laughter Leader Pam Wener’s Smile Project Event in Montreal
Here is a great video on Smile Project Montreal, featuring Pam Wener, Certified Laughter Leader:
Total coolness!
Isn’t this a great-fun video?! Seeing Pam share our Funny Smiles at The Smile Project Montreal makes us smile! How totally FUN and completely wonderful to see her sharing Smiles and laughter, as she does! Crowd reactions are absolutely priceless and precious.
The colored craft sticks Pam uses are way cool FUN, too — great idea!
It’s heartwarming to see Miles of Smiles appearing all over the world YaY
What a thrill to have our Funny Smiles touching so many hearts!
Miles of Smiles — it’s a simple idea really, isn’t it?! It’s all about the idea — a simple-simple concept. Let’s hope this becomes a true epidemic!
Join the Miles of Smiles Campaign — Smile project — share a Funny Smile!
Get your own Funny Smile Makerz Kit here: Funny Smile Makerz Kit+MORE
The Funny Smile Makerz Kit is for those who want to spread laughter and cheer, while making happy memories for others!
These Funny Smiles are wildly popular leave-behinds. We have been using them for years and years, and just realized they could be enlarged from the art in the kit for some B-I-G FUN!
Several friends have joined the Miles of Smiles Global Quest and have kits, so I wanted to share my surprise discovery!
Join our Global Quest to spread Smiles around the World!
It’s for everyone, and you’re invited 
You can get your own kit and make unlimited Smiles: budurl.com/FunnySmileMakerzKit