Volunteering is serious business.

For as much as we work at having volunteer programs that positively affect our communities and we’re able to measure the results of our work, sometimes we forget something very basic about volunteering.

It’s okay to have fun while you’re doing it. It’s encouraged.

The folks at KaBOOM! reminded all of us that having fun is an important part of any volunteer project by sharing pictures from a few of their 2000 playground builds. They didn’t stop with just pictures, though. They invited their Facebook fans to leave captions for the pictures and then vote on which was their favorite.

Here are two of our favorite reminders that volunteering should be fun.

Thanks, KaBOOM!, for reminding us to have fun when we’re volunteering with our favorite causes. Congratulations on your 2000th playground!

How do you encourage your volunteers to have fun while they’re volunteering? Let us know in the comments!

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