Alternates to using raffle tickets to label prizes at school fair

[Trueknott]

Hi, looking for fresh ideas! We have two fairs a year at school. A few games are won by pulling a numbered ticket from the barrel and if it ends in a 0 or 5, you are a winner. This is time consuming to organise and a bit monotonous. Just wondered if anyone has alternative ideas. A friend, for example, suggested rolling a die. Roll a 1-3 you win. Roll 4-6 you don't. Appreciate any input. Thank you.

Any set of identical objects (rubber ducks, plastic beakers, whatever) that you can use a sharpie on the bottom of and shuffle between players. Set of straws, one shorter than the others, held so you can't see which is the short one. Playing cards - court cards win.

If you mean labelling all the prizes, just have two boxes or tables - 0 means you take something from one box, 5 from the other.

0 and 5 means 1 in 5 chance of winning.
1-3 and 4-6 means 1 in 2 chance of winning, better odds, lower profit.

Raffle tickets work. People understand the system.

Actually labelling prizes with exact numbers means less chance of a stallholder saying 'oh just have a prize anyway' which i my experience happens more than you might think it would.

Our school uses milk bottle lids. Paint some one colour for the bigger prizes and some another colour for smaller prizes, leave the others plain for no prize.
Still takes prep but they can be re used. Winners can pick from the table with big prizes or table with small prizes depending on colour pulled, essentially you don't have to hunt for numbers when it's busy and people can chose something appropriate to them.

By labelling them you ensure the winner doesn't get to choose their own prize so they come back to try again for a better prize so raises more money.

And yes.. the one in 2 chance of winning will earn less money than a one in 5 chance.

We did a cuddly toy tombola and named them - so you pulled a name out of the hat and won the toy with that name. The kids loooooved it - was the most popular stall we had.

Oh yeah... cuddly toy tombola!! Super popular on both sides at our school fair... loads of donations and loads of excited kids throwing money at the stall.... with some exaberated parents wondering how could they possibly need more cuddly toys. Left overs can be donated to https://droppoint.org/ch/theteddytrust

A common one when I was little was a table of plastic cups all filled with sand. They then had a sieve over a washing up bowl and you had to 'pan for gold'. It was mainly 20ps or the odd 50p but it was about 20 years ago. Fun and gives you something to actually do

Some of the things from our school fairs,

Lolly sticks with some of the ends painted and stuck in a sand pit or similar. Painted stick gets a prize.

Hook a duck with numbers under some of the ducks and a number gets a prize.

Giant snakes and ladders. Roll the dice until you get a snake or a ladder, Ladders get a prize.

Marble run where the marbles can go one of two ways. Three marbles for one go if you get on in the right exit you get a sweet, two in the right place a slightly bigger prize and three gets an even better prize.

Tomba with prizes put into coloured hoops. Coloured cubes in a draw string bag. Cube pulled out and prize chosen. Once all the colour is gone the cube is taken out. The lowest prize was a sweet or lolly.

Playing cards? If you pull out a King, Queen or Jack you win, special prize if you pick the Joker.