Schools christmas card fundraiser

[Albertsmum]

Hello there. Just wondering if anyone had any experience of organising for kids at school to have their Christmas cards printed and then sold to parents? I have spent ages trying all sorts of combinations of words in Google and Ask but to no avail.

Any help much appreciated.

I typed 'school christmas cards' into Google (don't mean that smugly, just telling you so's you can reproduce my search) and got:

www.epcdirectuk.co.uk/myclasscards/home.php

www.my-school-christmas-cards.c o.uk/

www.cauliflowercards.co.uk/

etc.

Hope that's useful.

My children's school uses this company - better get a move on though! They have just done their pictures for this Christmas and we have the order forms ready to send back by Friday. They do them every year - it's a great fund-raiser. Good luck.

www.apfs.org.uk/

Thanks very much.
about the right search. Spent 40 minutes typing in a combination of PTA, fund raising, digitial cards to no avail when scholl christmas cards was the one.

We will get our skates on. Thanks

Just noticed this post. We have been thinking of doing it this year as a fundraiser. Do you mind me asking roughly how much money it makes & is a lot of work involved? I made school calendars last year & spent hours & hours putting them together, when the Teachers eventually got eveyone to draw their self portraits We made just over £100 which was great but thought if we could raise the same amount but not have to spend lots of time making them it would be a better option

We are doing the christmas card thing this year for the first time -the apfs one. How did you do the calendars? Was it expensive to make them? We have been wanting to do this for ages. We also want to do a cd, but the teachers will not commit to learning ONE song for it
anyhooo!
The apfs company seem really easy to deal with - we lost our samplies and they sent us some more asap!

Oh! On the christmas card thingy, the cards are 6£ I believe for the first set of 12 and 4 for each additional pack. The school gets 60 pence from each pack. We are sending out an instruction sheet and an order form. All the teachers have to do is collect the money and the artwork with the order form attached.

We (well others!) did cards last year with old photos of the local area. They did well with non school parents.

Thanks for the card info. Will have to get a move on & look into it.

Re the calendars, they cost next to nothing to make. I got some small stickers ( 2"x1") issued them out to all the Teachers & included a class list so they could tick off everyone as they went along. The children had to draw themselves, with their names written underneath & I also asked various children to draw the Teachers, Dinner Ladies, TA's,even the lollypop man! Had to make sure I didn't leave anyone out. I had nightmares about Mum's chasing me round the playground cos their kids weren't on the calendar
I then stuck them onto an A4 sheet of paper, with the Class name at the bottom of the page. I did a page for every class, including TA's & Teachers then put Dinner Ladies etc on another page which still left us 2 pages short so we had a competition, one for Infants & one for the Juniors where they had to draw a November scene or a December scene. Most of them drew fireworks & Christmas. I was then really cheeky & went knocking at the door of a local Artist's Gallery to ask if he would judge the artwork for us. He very kindly picked two winners & even gave prizes for them & for some highly commended ones.

The School Secretary ordered the paper as it was a lot cheaper that way. I used cardboard for the front of the calendar which had the school logo on the front & then paper for the rest of the pages. November & December were in colour then the rest was in black & white. I was going to laminate them, but it would have worked out too expensive. Again the Secretary ordered the spiral thingys to hold them together & I then spent hours over the binder at School putting them all together.

We sold them at £3 for one of two for £5. They sold well but I do think we could have sold more if I had started them sooner, I hadn't taken into account how long it would take to get them all back & in hindsight I would probably have been better to use bigger stickers as it would have been easier to draw on, especially for the little ones. Only thing with doing it that way is that you have to have an ology in photocopiers to then reduce the pics down!

Gone on a bit havent I hope this tells you all you need to know, anything else, just ask

Thanks!!! When did you start it?

I t must have been about mid October I think.

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We do apfs cards. For calanders we use a company called polygon, they do all the printing etc, we just get the pics and lay them out. Last year we also included advertising, this raised a good amount.

Whew!! Still have time then!

geoteach, does it cost loads to get them printed up professionally then?

depends how many you order, check the website. We sell for £4 and I think there is a couple of pounds profit.

Hi we do this with Christmas Cards for Schools each year and we make about £500 profit and send £50 to a charity as well.

We make £1.25 on each pack of 10 cards and sell them for £5.00 a pack.

You need someone to oversee the admin and then a group of you to do the online order. All the packs come back per class so are easy to distribute.

Its very easy and the children and parents love it.

We have also done tea towels and calendars some year too which also go down well.

Our school have done it for 3 years now with a company called Mini Me Card Company. Last year we sent in our own pictures and made a 'family' card...everyone loved it! I think the first card was actually free, def doing it again this year. Em

we've used a company called 'easy school christmas cards' to run our project for the last 4 years. They're very helpful at all stages of the project and offer by far the best quality cards, not to mention a great range of other products including personalised advent calendars!

Ours do it. They do the cards very early in term because the sooner you get it in the cheaper they are. I think it's a small local company though.

as aparent I hate these cards. Dcs want to buy them, so I end up having to fork out for them, and they are very expensive. Then dc will not allow THEIR cards to be used for general, so Granny gets 2 cards one form each school age dc (and non from us

I also have a card making session with younger dcs for their friends, but that was poo pooed once they had posh school cards, sigh.

just noticed all the withdrawn and deleted messages - do you think some other parents hate them too?

I would be happy to buy them if made at school. I object to the profit making company taking my hard earned cash under the guise of money raising for school.

HI GRIG