Fundraiser Ideas

Penny Wars

Penny Wars between grades in which coins are placed by students in their grade's respective jar. Penny's are one point towards their team per se, while if you place a higher-worth coin in another team's jar, they get points deducted. An incentive for the winning grade is necessary, of course. Also, set out jars such that you can't see the inside, with teachers' or administrators' names on it, and have students place money in them. The staff member with most money has to kiss a pig, get a pie in the face, a dare, etc...

The Bottle Lottery

An idea that worked exceptionally well at our local elementary school during the family fall BBQ was called The Bottle Lottery.

Families were asked to donate items to the school that could be contained in a bottle. Some will choose to donate a bottle of shampoo or a jar of peanut butter, but give them ideas on what to put into bottles. We had rental movie coupons with microwave popcorn, beanie babies, candy, lottery tickets, Barbie doll clothes, bath beads etc.

These bottles are displayed in the school prior to the evening and the students got new ideas from the display case. The bottles are then numbered and people pay $2 to play. Every player is a winner as they draw a numbered ticket from a box. The number corresponds to a bottle on the display table. This is great fun and we had over 300 bottles sold out in less than 50 minutes. At our event, participants took it one step further as they swapped items trying to trade for things that they could use. (e.g. shaving cream for Lego)

It's a great event and there's no product to return or tabulate.

Cake Auction

As a fundraiser in our school we have cake auctions where you make a cake/cookies/etc. and auction them off to like the basketball crowd or whatever...we tend to get like $25-$30 a cake.

Our students went around to first period classes and took orders for coffee, hot chocolate and donuts. They then ordered from Tim Hortons and delivered the next day to first period. It was so successful that they only made it half way through the school, because students and teacher who had not ordered previously wanted to buy stuff. Over the two days it took to get around to the whole school (pop. 1000) the students made $400 profit. Hey, "You've always got time for..."

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