ideas for our school summer fayre???

[Nointhemood]

want to keep it nice and fresh!!!

what do you normally have so we can suggest alternatives?

normally cakes stalls, raffles, and craft stalls to be honest this is my first summer fayre at the school so i haven't been yet lol

We always do a Car Boot Sale with ours which brings in LOTS of non-school people.
We use school field but be prepared to deal with the hard-core boot seller little old ladies who will be clamouring to get in as soon as you get there and not in an hour and a half when the thing actually starts

Craft stalls in hall usually work well too

what about a bouncy castle/activity for the kids?

we let our P7's run a stall to raise some money too

do you sell the kids art work? our school has an art teacher who picks some stuff and frames it up (cheaply) grannies etc cannot resist that kind of thing!!

a local band to play some music in return for their promotion/refreshments?

face painting always a winner and money spinner if they do it sensibly and not spend half hour on every child!

Agree with selling the dc's artwork even hardened parents find it difficult to resist. Other real easy money maker are the glitter / pink / blue hairspray and the tattoo/transfers, neither sit well with the boden mums understandably but are quick and easy and the dc's love them.

We invite the fire brigade along with a nice shiny engine that they let all the little pre-schoolers clamber over!

Also wellie wanging.

Dance groups/gymnastic display.

Bottle tombola, soft toy tombola, chocolate tombola.

Hook a duck

Beat the goalie

Coconut shy (danerous this one!)

Golf game (bit of hardboard with arches cut out and a score above each arch, highest score of the day wins).

Balls in the bog (throw football into an old toilet to win) dead classy we are

Hair wraps/plaits.

Auction of promises.

Bouncy castles etc.

BBQ

We make several thousand

Forgot splat the ret!

Rat.

Last year DS's school had:

Splat the rat
Knocking over old china with balls ( prob has a name...)
Throw water soaked sponges at teachers in stocks
Police in with motorbike and car to sit in/on and do fingerprinting with certificate
Bouncy castle - one for under 4's one for over 4's
Speed stacking and dancing demonstrations
Hook the duck
Lucky Dip
Coconut shy
Raffle
Tombola
Bar
Cake stall
BBQ stall