What does your school for fun activities as a way of fundraising?

[MrsWeasley]

That?s about it really.

My DC's school does a fun activity for the kids as a half term fundraising activity (like photo comp, scavenger hunt, how many items in a match box, design a kite, make a picture out of leaves, I-spy, etc)

I was wondering what your schools do (so I can pinch your ideas)

Thanks (feel free to use any of our previously tried and successful activities)

The usual stuff really - discos, tea and cake sales, music and dancing events, barbecues in the summer etc.

One good fund-raiser that they did oneyear was co-ordinated with the staff; hte whole school was doing an art project (some classes did a theme, some studied one artist, some a particular painting). The childrens work was made into one big exhibition and parents had to buy their children's own work. That plus the wine (and other food/drink on sale!) raised over £2k.

Fun? I don't think any of them are fun.

However we have an art gallery a bit like Mercy's. All the children do a painting or collage, the school get it framed and you are 'invited' to buy it for a fiver.
Nothing else unusual.

My scholl does a 'sponsored bounce' where a buncy castle is hired and a team of mums records each childs no. of bounces. The kids love it, even if my heart sinks when a sponsor form is produced from a school bag!

A fiver, that's a bit steep

It didn't seem so bad the first time when I only had DS#1 in school. 6 years down the line with 3 DCs I have a small gallery in our dining room. Saying no to 'mummy, do you want my picture' is very hard

I've thought on another thing. Covering the lines on the floor in the playground with pennies. We did that for Red Nose Day and it raised loads.

Same with school photos I imagine

We have Summer and Christmas Fairs and a ladies indulgence evening which is fab. We also have jumble sales, coffee mornings, Bags 2school, the usual. Something new is to sign up to a website and every time we buy through it school gets money.

Easter Egg hunt too which is actually find questions and answer them to make another word. Kids get a tube of mini eggs and we pay £2 to enter.

All fund raising is highly annoying but I must warn against random ice cream selling after school from a little table because the pressure really did diddle me right off when this happened at our school last Summer.

Throw a wet sponge at the head would go down well for me. I'd pay a tenner to do so.

we did a cookbook

I designed it

we raised £1,000

Thank you for all your replies.

we do many of these things already included "Soak the Head"

We also do an activity that the kids do over a half term at home and bring it into school on their return for judging but I have run out of ideas. (this time last year we did Decorate a Flower pot)

OK, I printed off this thread and took it to my first PTA meeting!!

I am now signed up and volunteered to do the art thing! and have no idea where to start!

Our school is going to be twinned with a school in Africa and so our Summer Fete is going to be African themed..Go Africa or Out of Africa or something as the title.

I thought it would be great to match it up and do an African style picture which can then be mounted and framed and sold to the parents. I actually think just mounted would be fine.

I also had Cinema Night idea where the kids pay £2.50 each to watch a film after school and get popcorn and a drink and I have been volunteered for that too! This will make a fortune for the school I think.

so thanks for your ideas.

my schools pta are b&&&y money hungry cannibals.
the christmas fair raised six grand. now they are already organising the summer fair. the circus in septermber. the bingo night in march. the whitsun half term bob a job weeks. a football tournament, in which you pay to have teh pleaseure of wathcing your own kids play. ad nauseum.

SueW - Can you remember how much those exhibition paintings cost? I'd like to bring that idea up at the PSA meeting this week.

That's not too bad - thanks!

We have an adult quiz, Plant sales (most schools around here do, but I don't have any details on that atm), summer fayre, those printed tea towls where children drew thier own faces.

The frames on ours weren't brilliant but reasonable, it has given me one piece of 'art' from each year for each child to keep. So I don't feel so guilty about throwing the others in the recycling

1 YEAR THE CHILDREN WERE GIVEN AN A3 PIECE OF PAPER IVIDED INTO SQUARES WITH EACH LETTER OF THE ALPHABET ON IT AND THEY HAD TO FIND SMETHING THAT STARTED WITH EACH LETTER AND STICK IT TO THE PAPER.

this year we are doing

Valentine Cake Fair
Valentine Disco

Bingo Night

Cinema Night (£2.50 for child + popcorn)

Easter Cake Fair

Summer 'Go Africa' Fete
African Artwork Display to be sold to parents

there are others but cannot remember......

Dynamicnanny excellent, just the sort of thing I was after. Thank you

Has anyone done a disco/dance for adults before? How much would you reckon you could charge for tickets (food included)?