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Check out the videos and documents linked here for how you can capture your tour's attention better:

How to Effectively Use Your Body Language

How to Talk with Your Hands!

What to do with your hands while you talk...

Storytelling on Tour

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How to Effectively Use Your Body Language

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How to Effectively Use Your Body Language

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A video explanation on important aspects of body language on tour!

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Be a Better Guide - Free Tour Guide Training

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How to Effectively Use Your Body Language as a Tour Leader - Body Language Tips

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One of the most important parts of engaging guests on your tours.

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Be a Better Guide - Free Tour Guide Training

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What To Do with your Hands while Speaking? Effective Hand Gestures for Tour Guides

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What to do with your hands while you talk...

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What to do with your hands while you talk...

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See this helpful pdf from Be a Better Guide!

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PDF - WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR HANDS WHILE SPEAKING - EFFECTIVE HAND GESTURES - BABG RESOURCE

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Learn how to a paint a verbal picture for your audience!

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How to tell great stories on tour? Story telling advice for guides!

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Campus tours can and do look a lot different from the travel tours that some of these linked resources appeal to. So how do we customize and make our specific tour setting at Purdue a little more interactive? Check out the following notes for suggested activities:

Photo-Op Moments

Opportunities to Move

Fill-in-the-Blank Verbiage

Pre-Setting Your Questions

Trivia Teams

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Pre-plan some stops on your tour for families to take a snapshot of a memory! A popular one is the Arch at the end of Stadium Mall. Here are some other places you might think of adding on your tour:

Engineering Fountain

Outside their Academic College (know your guests!!)

Memorial Mall

The Mural in STEW

The Block P

*Be sure to only use 1 or 2 of these and not all of them! Don't overwhelm your tour with photo-op moments :)

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Of course your tour is walking the whole time...but they're following you and don't have the freedom to move in a fun or engaging way during a long tour. So...insert moments to move! Here are some examples that get them moving and immerse them in campus life more fully:

Jump the tracks by the Bell Tower

Clapping in the Clapping Circles

Following Neil Armstrong's Footsteps

Drink from the Lion's Head Fountain (when it's running)

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Instead of simply giving your families facts, try having them complete your sentences! It creates more call in response. Here are some examples of how to do that:
1. Give: Neil Armstrong--the first man to walk on the moon--was a graduate from Purdue University!
1. Fill-in-the-Blank: The first man to walk on the moon was _______. Does anyone know where he graduated from?

2. Give: Purdue's mascot is the Boilermaker Special! It's a converted fire engine, and sometimes you'll see it riding around campus!
2. Fill-in-the-Blank: Sometimes you'll see a train engine driving around campus! It's called the Boilermaker Special and is Purdue's official _______!

*You can also set this up as a question instead of a fill-in-the-blank. (e.g. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?)

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If you want to create a competitive game for your families to engage in throughout the tour, divide them into "Trivia Teams!" Before the tour, assign each guest/family to 1 of 2 teams (e.g. Purdue Pete or the Boilermaker Special). Explain that throughout the tour, you'll be asking Purdue Trivia questions. Whichever teams answer correctly/first gain a trivia point for their team! See whose team wins by the end of the tour.
*For this to work, you have to pre-think-up some trivia questions! Make sure you prepare

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Tired of your families not asking questions? Try pre-setting questions for them to ask! You can write out questions on pieces of paper before your tour and hand them to guests at the beginning. Then, when you ask "Does anyone have a question?" you can prompt them to use the questions you gave them to begin with. This can help create an interactive prompt for things you want to talk about on your tour, rather than just saying them!