What are good things you can do to raise money at school for fundraising?

Question

example...raffles etc.

Answer 1

plate smashing, cake sale, tombola, coconut shy etc

Answer 2

Maybe a bingo party?

Answer 3

teacher dunking booth...or pie-toss

Answer 4

The best and easiest way is to have the president of the PTA send out a letter asking for money & setting out the reasons why people should give.  Then there are various sales: bake sale, candy sale, wrapping paper, car wash etc.  These are good because students get to participate and help with raising the funds.  A more ambitious type of sale is to hold a huge yard sale where people donate their treasure/trash and the school gets the proceeds.  Another more upscale version of this is to hold an auction/dinner/dancing event, where everyone in the school solicits contributions of good stuff - tickets to sports and art events, new goods, entertainment, services, etc. etc., and then sells tickets to come to the auction.  My son's schools have raised huge amounts (25,000 and up) from this latter sort of event.  Be forewarned though, you need a team of parents and teachers who are dedicated to putting on this sort of event.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do!

Answer 5

What my daughter school does is ask the class to bring in brownie mix and teacher takes home to bake and  and sells them for .50 cents a peice.Her field trip cost 90.00 dollors and buy the take selling brownies all year the cost went down to 30.00 dollors.

Answer 6

I go to a k-8 school, and my school does a lot of these things.

First, you can have a family movie night, they don't pay for the movie, but they pay for drinks/snack. My school makes about $150 each time they do this.

Have a spring fling/fall festival, where you have a festival with rides and games, charge 10 for a bracelet(bracelets are for rides) and 1 ticket is 25 cents or 5/$1(tickets are for games). A lot of schools already do this.

Depending on the grades the school has, have a dance. $3 for a ticket if bought before the dance, and $5 if bought at the dance. then have boys bring in drinks and girls bring in snacks(you can switch this to 7th graders and 8th graders or the other way around, it doesn't matter).

Have a chik-fil-a night or another fast food place like this. Where you make an agreement with the company where from 6-8(anytime) any purchases bought you get 10% fo the profits.

I hope I helped you.

Answer 7

out local Kroger setup a system that a certain percentage of our grocery bill would go into a fund for school.

It was very successful, not sure about the details though.

Answer 8

hold a car wash, sell things like a barbeque (in our area, every week some organization holds a public barbq, selling a hotdog, a snack size bag of chips and a can drink for $3.00. They do quite well too!), how about arranging a yard sale where all included contribute items to sell and all proceeds go the group? Advertise well!

Answer 9

At my son's elementary we used to have a fair twice a year.  It included games, crafts, silent auctions, booths to sell donated items, bake sale, food sales, dunking booth with volunteer teachers.

Each activity, game or craft required a ticket or tickets to participate and the tickets were a quarter a piece or 5 for a dollar.  We also used to run catalog sales of candy, wrapping paper, etc...

Answer 10

I think they are a waste of time and do not support them. When they have to stoop to using kids to sell their wares they are a ripoff. The schools are making plenty of money to pay for their needs and if they can't meet their budget then put someone in office that can. I am sick and tired of hearing how bad the schools have it yet the schools here have collegiate quality facilities. These kids have it better than we could have ever imagined.

Answer 11

How about auction? The ONLY one who bit the LEAST can get the good. If two people bit the same lower price, then they are out.

I'm not sure if I make myself understood...

Answer 12

I would suggest a fun-fair or a boot sale. We did that back 1980 when I was a 4th Grader (in Switzerland) and all the classes had to make some art works, hand made items etc which where sold on that Sunday fun-fair market. It was a bit of high-class because we where able to collect enough funds to construct one school in India and one school in Africa. I was quite proud about that because I was allowed to do the opening ceremony.

Answer 13

a bake sale? maybe some fundraiser through tupperware? Or a raffel of donated Items

Answer 14

I was a sixth grade cheerleader and we sold candy bars each of us had to sell 200 and we all raised about $2000 together

some other people are doing things like book drivesfor little kids

And some people are geting clothing and iteams for the homlies

And our 7&8 grades are doing a money raiser for kids without education in Hounderas