School xmas fair, how much to see santa ??

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Have just got back from ours, total chaos but thats another story.

It was 20p to get in, for kids aswell as adults, drinks and crisps and stuff was generally 10p and 20p and then there were stalls with bits and bobs on ranging from 50p to £3.

Anyway, you could visit santa too, how much do you think it should be ?

Our fair is 50p per adult to get in and Santa was £1.50 with a gift.

It was free to see santa unless you wanted a photo. Then it was a £1. A mum took them with a digital camera and they will be given out at school. ds got a mini bag of haribo.
It was 50p each adult to get in and free for children.
Pin the nose on rudolph was 50p as was the lucky dip etc.

I am sitting here exhausted, absolutley F*ing exhausted.

I am the class rep, we had a stall, with a few of the other mums we manned it for three hours.

Did we need to be there for three hours ?? Yes because we put a list up and not one fucking lazy bastard put their names on it.

So it was the ususal gobshites who flogged themselves again

We as a family spent the guts of £25 and all we came home with was a painted face and transformer that cost 20p.

We are lucky, because we had the £25 to "waste". but if I had only had a tenner I would have only spent a tenner.

I am a parent helper, and last year we bought the children a mobile computer suite, the joy they get from it makes it all the hard work worth while.

We had our Christmas Fayre yesterday which i had the pleasure of organising!
We charged 2.50 for sanat but the presents cost at least £2 horrible history books, stationery kits everyone was really pleased with gifts.

We charged 50p entrance for adults free for kids, Refreshments sold out burgers and hot dogs from local butchers.

Loads of kids stalls for 30p each and tombolas from 20p

However best stalls were adopta an animal and money tree and secret room

Everyone seemed happy and I now we have been asking for donations over the past few weeks but it is for our kids and we are now paying for interactive white boards to be installed in each classroom in the school

At our school you are not so much asked to donate to various things but are told you must. If you don't your child misses out on non uniform days etc. I think this is a horrid thing to do and allways end up scraping through my purse to find the reuired donation.

I've just realsied as well that on friday, when it's the Chrismtas Fair, i shall have two toddlers, a 4 year old, my DSes and a 7 year old! And they will all want to go, i just know it.

£1 to see santa at dd's school
£1 for bouncy slide
£2 for glow in the dark necklaces
£1 cotton candy

I don't think they wanted to deal with change at all

and we spend about £15 between 2 adults and dd there - younger dds had nothing

we had the money but felt it was v v expensive

We just had out xmas fair which I organised as chair of the PTA.
Entry free but if you want a programme they cost 50p and go into a draw to win £5
Kids stalls eg pick a lolly 10p, guess name of teddy 20p.
Santa £1.50 in a beautifully decorated grotto and given a gift which cost apporx £1.20 (eg colouring book & crayons)#
Lucky dip 20p
Adult stalls eg find the wine 50p
Lots of lovely local craft stalls selling stuff from 20p to £10 (we do not allow them to sell anything over £10)
Raffle £1 for 5 tickets, lots of fab prozes
Tombola £1 for tickets, prizes donated by parents (this is the only stall we ask parents to donate for).
We also had tea, coffee, bar etc at very reasonable prices.
Lots of other stalls too.

We put in hours of hard work and we get donations for raffle etc from local companies and ask parents for help on the night rather than lots of donations which cost money.

We raised in excess of £1500.

My kids are given a certain amount of money (I have 3 of them) and its up to them what they spend it on and when its gone its gone they do not get any more so they are told to spend it wisely and not all within the first 20 mins.

ours is £1 to get in and think it was £2.50 for Santa and they got a selection box. mine didnt go as Ds is going with nursery into Town tomorrow.
Stalls all £1 for 5 goes.
Ds wanted a piece of chocolate cake at cafe so I got it stunned at it being £1!!
I bought a cake off the cakestall for £3 its like rubber!!!
All in all I spent about £30!!!! AAAAAAaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

Had school fayre yesterday. It was £1 entry for adults and 50p for children. Father Christmas did arrive and it cost £1.50 per child to have a quick hello type chat and they recieved a wrapped gift each - mainly books I think.

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deckthehallswithboughsofmummy>>> that happened at our school. Ds had to bring in a gift for tombola etc (it said on note'preferably alcohol')or otherwise they were not allowed to wear their own clothes on non uniform day. Luckily my mum gave me something to give.

Ours was a pound in for adults and children were free. To see father Christmas it was £1.50 and an extra £1 to get a photograph taken , they got a selection box too. Everything else was quite reasonable the booze tombola was £1 for 3 tickets and I won a bottle of Lemonade!

£2 each but not at fayre, done in class time so rather removes any no-see options. Times 3 that's not cheap but fits the school arther well- they made decorations alst week and then chargeed 9agin for all 3) £1 each to be allowed to take home! And trust me I know my crafts, they cost max £0.25p each to make, if that.

Plus panto next week X 2- £15. And the fayre was about a tenner including entrance , obligatory chocolate box swap 9they all ahve to fill oje they buy another for £1....)

Oh do support PTA- making plate of food for teacher's lunch in a frtnight, provided card blanks for teachers cards (made by kids) and make cakes etc. Oh and indeed was nominated for grotto mker for the next 3 years not sure how that happened. certainly did not volunteer.

When our school abolished an entry fee to the fair the takings on the door shot up by 100%.

I meant to say we asked for donations instead.