City of Ontario — Bring Your Kids to Work Day

On July 14, 2026, the City of Ontario, CA hosted its annual Bring Your Kids to Work Day — a morning celebrating families, connection, and public service, with hundreds of employees and their kids moving through discovery stations across city departments.

The City’s Human Resources team wanted a keepsake worthy of the day: not a generic photo strip, but something each child would hold onto. Captured Celebrations delivered the Commemorative Collector Card Experience — a personalized, double-sided trading card for every kid, designed with City of Ontario landmarks and branding, printed, trimmed, and sleeved on site.

Bring Your Kids to Work Day is about making public service feel real and exciting to the next generation. The City wanted every child to leave feeling like part of the team — and to have a physical memento that captured that feeling.

The brief: a collectible, personalized card. Each child’s own name printed on the front with their photo. A back that celebrated the day’s theme with public-service icons and a space to write in their favorite City Discovery Station. Official enough to feel like a real collector card, personal enough to be theirs alone.

140 booth sessions in a single four-hour morning — each one a personalized collector card printed, sleeved, and handed to a kid on the spot. The digital gallery kept working after the event ended: 214 shares, 313 gallery views, and a combined social reach of 15,527 with 52,378 impressions in the week that followed.

Those numbers came with zero incentive program. Parents and employees shared because the cards were worth showing off. For a city, that means the event’s message — families, connection, public service — traveled far beyond the people in the building that morning.