I need some ideas for a primary school christmas bazaar, please help!

[Eddas]

I'm on the committee of the pre-school and we are able to have a stall at the primary school's christmas bazaar.

They have said that any activities which get the children involved would be great, so we're going to do reindeer food(idea swipped from mn last year!)

does anyone have any other ideas?

They are already doing some kind of decorations and biscuit decorating.

They need to be simple as i may be running the stall alone! I'm hoping to rope in some others but alot of our committee work weekends.

TIA

If you'er doing a Nativity or similar, sell photos of the children in costume.

Homemade cakes.

Make angels/trees/santas.

Paper Xmas style bunting.

salt dough candle stick holders to decoarte.

Decprate biscits or gingerbread.

thanks littlerach, we can't do alot of those as we are the pre-school committee, not the school, we're just going to try to make a little money from their bazaar

I was looking for more child-orientated things. I suspect they'll already being doing the usual lucky dip/lolly board/tombola/raffle etc etc things.

Hi at my dd school they allways do biscuit packets on string rubbish at explaining basically all the packets are tied with a single string you pull a string and win pack of biscuits allways sell fast,guess the number of smarties etc in a jar

Remembered annother more the game where you move the loop round the wire without touching

How about name the fish? buy a goldfish and the best name wins the goldfish?
Also what about facepainting?
Or pin the nose on rudolph (adapted from blindfolded pin the tail on the donkey)

Or make a Christmas tree decoration. pre cut baublue shape threaded with string and let them use glue and glitter, plus painting with string- it dip sting in paint and paint it over your bauble.

Can you have a private room where they can choose and wrap a present for their parents? This gives mum/dad/carer a chance to spend look. Some parents do't get presents from their children so this might go down well. A box of smellies/car things/chocolates etc, the child wraps it away from parent/carer and takes it home. Charge just over what the present costs, maybe things from the pound shop and charge £1.50?

Chocolate fountain goes down very well.

Mine would be making crowns. You would cut out pre-made crowns from shiny card and buy glitter and sequins or those fake plastic jewels, you know anything cheap and showy. They just "decorate" ahem and then you staple the ends together to fit the head. I suppose it's more of an activity than a stall but I'm sure parents would pay a quid for it.

This site has fab toys for less than a pound and you could do a lucky dip

www.tickseed.co.uk/stocking-fillers-party-bag-toys-and-gifts-under-1-pound-3169-0.html

I'm sorry it's a useless idea because you'll be on your own. Hence completely impossible!

thanks for all your ideas.

Again, alot of them would not be possible as they'll already be being done by the school. ie parents presents, lucky dip, decorations

blueskyandsunshine, that was actually more along the lines I was thinking and maybe possible if we have some more helpers thanks, i'll put it on my 'possible' list I don't think I will be going alone, but atm everyone seems to be busy

I still need some more ideas if anyone has any

decoratge a biscuit stall - you could make loads of festive shaped biscuits (have some packets as back up) icing and christmassy silver balls, sprinklesw etc.

thanks bbbee, but the school are already doing that(see op)

sorry! read thread yesterady and forgot that bit. Need more coffee!

um - christmas party hats - cut out loads of card adn have glitter and stuff?

don't worry, it's keeping the thread bumped

Party hats/crowns may be the way to go, glitter/glue/stickers/pens etc. We should have all of this at the pre-school. But my only thought is that it may not make any money with the outlay on card etc. IMO there's not much point in us doing something unless we make a few quid, as that's why we're doing a stall.

You are right. But the crowns don't have to be big.. maybe two inches of body and an inch of spike. You could get a lot of crowns out of one piece of shiny or coloured card.

OR make your own christmas decoration, pre-cut shapes like stars and baubles, hole punch and a bit o' Christmas ribbon -- much smaller?

Last year a couple of us made some salt dough xmas shapes stars etc. made a hole at the top then tied some ribbon whencooked & had the kids decorate these with glitter etc. was very popular

we can't do decorations because the school is already doing them. They are popular though, we're doing them at the pre-school one. Beacuse we only have 40 children we make salt dough shapes and put a name on each one. The children then decorate them in a pre-school session and we sell them at the bazaar!

I still need ideas please, no decorations/biscuits and we've already decided to do reindeer food. Anything else?

What about pick-a-straw?
Needs a little preparation at home, but deadly easy.
Cut drinking straws into 3. Small piece of paper with one of these written on:

• win a sweet
• win xpence (between 10p and £1 - star prize!)
• have a free go
• no win (or just a big X writtten on to save time)

Roll paper and push into a straw. Stand straws up in a tray of sand. I did about 500 straws, more winners than losers but then I bought bags of sweets from £1 shop so v cheap prizes.

Not sure what you would want to charge, it really varies from school to school but at ours it was 20p a straw or 3 for 50p. The children pick their own straws and push out the paper using the end of a thin child's paintbrush. Then they have to unroll the paper and see what's on it.
Doesn't sound hugely exciting but they loved the "doing" bit of it and the fact they stood a really good chance of winning something!

oooo i like that one posey. Would be cheapish to do. Definately on the list to check with the school to see they aren't doing one similar already. Thank you

early evening bump

Similar to poseys but with lollipops, buy massive bags from pound shop or similar. On the bottom of the stick use a felt tip to colour in about a third of them. Stand them up in a board with holes in, sand, whatever.
If they pick a coloured in one, get another go. If not, they still get the lolly.
Not festive but the kids used to go nuts for that one Just keep refilling the board as they get taken out. Nice and easy

Have you looked on Baker Ross? Loads of pre-prepared crafts, which are very inexpensive in bulk then you charge more to make them.

What about a jamjar tombola? Get people from pre-school to fill empty jars at home with whatever they fancy,decorate the jars, then tombola them. Makes a nice change from mushy peas and Fray Bentos pies!
Ideas to put in jars, sweets, a small cuddly toy, unwanted or leftover party bag presents, crayons, individually wrapped tea bags. I love doing this stall, and love filling jars
Only problem is if you're running stall alone as its a bit full-on.

Will ponder more.

Have a teddy tombola where everyone donates their unwanted teddies. Attach all teddies to strings and drape across table and onto floor. They pull the string from the other side and win every time. (Same as yorkigal's biscuits really). Doesn't cost a penny.

Straw thing good, we've done that. Ditto lollipops - the colour on the end denoting what prize e.g. yellow - have another go, red - win 20p, blue - big prize etc.

Hook a duck. Cheap and cheerful. Just a paddling pool and a kit from Baker Ross etc. Get a christmas version with penguins instead of ducks!