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Idea:
Cobwebb Chase
Premise: This idea is to search out historical buildings or homes in an area. Map the course and take a bus load or two of people to visit these places. A tour inside is a must and get permission of course. You either get a spokes person to tell the history or search it yourself if no one else is available. Have a bus commentator, preferably someone who knows the area and some history. Make one of the venues a stop for morning tea and lunch. Seek giveaways for passengers according to the theme. 20's, 30's or whatever. Timing is crucial and must be constructed before the actual day. This is a fun day and a great profile for your cause.
Needed: Bus/Van, Map
Source: KidsForOurTroops.org/ideasfromkids.htm
Idea: Sports/Craft/Cooking Clinic
Premise: The Westview Dance Troupe conducted a Dance Camp Clinic. This two-day intensive dance clinic for all experience levels will include technique classes covering several dance genres, lunch, drill downs, and a halftime performance during the Westview men's basketball. This same idea could be used for the various sports teams. Have the players work the clinic.
Varition 2:
Ask a local chef to donate their time and hold a cooking clinic. At the end of the clinic perhaps you could have a dinner featuring all the creations you learned to make. At the dinner you could also ask for donations.
Needed: Plastic flamingo(s)
Source: RoyalRentals.net
Source: Synodresourcecenter.org
Idea: Singing Christmas Cards Fundraiser
Premise: Set up a booth at a fall Parent-teacher conference session, sporting events, or after church services to sell "Singing Christmas Cards." People pay a fee to have you go to someone's home and sing Christmas carols. A card would be given to the recipient with the giver's name.
Source: carolinask.org/kcb/kc7p2.htm
Idea: One Day Vacation
Premise: Choose a popular destination within two or three hours of your hometown and organize a one-day outing to it. It could be a theme park, gigantic shopping mall, or historical sight. Charge a fee for the trip, charter a bus, and publicize the trip in your community newspaper. Offer a box lunch or box supper for added revenue. Along the way, hold funny contests and mini-raffles to entertain your captive audience.
Needed: Bus/Van
Idea: Lifesize Monopoly
Premise: A Maryland youth group and its leader invented Giant Monopoly, a great indoor, winter fund-raiser. The group created a "board" by laying out a 35x35-foot square from a roll of butcher paper, then painting it with the property names. A layer of heavy plastic protected the paper so kids could walk on it. They made title deed cards from poster board, giant foam-rubber dice, and a jail out of a nearby storage closet. Paper bags filled halfway with wadded newspaper, folded over, and stapled became houses and hotels-one bag (painted green) lor a house and two taped together (painted red) for a hotel.
The game is played in three-person teams with people as the tokens-one person throws the dice, one keeps track of the money and deeds, and one moves around the board. Group members collect pledges for the time they intend to play in a 24-hour Giant Monopoly marathon. In addition, outsiders are invited to drop in and play for $5 a half-hour.
Source: Don M. FundraisingDeals.com member
Idea: Invest in the Future
Premise: Give each group member $10 to $25 and challenge them to find ways to double or triple the money in three months. For example, they could buy seedlings, grow the plants, then sell them. Or they could invest in a snow shovel and clear driveways and sidewalks for a fee.
Source: Kristie S. FundraisingDeals.com member
Idea: Play-Dough Fundraising
Premise:
Our pre-primary school have been making its own play-dough for the kids to play with. We are now selling it as a fundraiser. It is pre-packed in 25 gram containers. We make different colors and sell them individually, in packs of 3 colors and packs of 7 colors. This has proven so popular that other schools place orders with us us (special price per 1 Kg), churches are buying from us and re-sell it for their fund-raiser. We then give them a percentage of the profits. This is a wonderful way to involve parents. They pack the play-dough and help make it as well. This is a sure winner!!
Source: Sarah S. FundraisingDeals.com member
Idea: Kid's Recipe Book
Premise: Involve the whole school in writing a book of the children's favorite recipes. This is a hilarious and profitable fund-raiser. Ask each child in the school to tell you:
1. What they are going to cook
2. What ingredients they will need
3. How do they make their recipe
4. How do they cook their recipe
5. Draw a picture of what they want to cook
Write the children's responses down exactly as they tell them to you. Compile the recipes into a book and sell them to parents, friends, etc.
Needed: Could be incorporated with schools english and art class
Source: Daylene M., FundraisingDeals.com member
Idea: Quiilt Fundraiser
Premise: Each year we do two fund-raisers. We go for the "big bucks" because I do not like continually going to my parents for more and more money. We make class quilts each year that have the participation of each student and the parents divide up the cost of making the quilt. We then use a silent auction method and auction off the quilts at the end of the school year. We have them open for bids during our graduation/spring program and the entire week following the program. They usually go for anywhere from $200-$800. It depends completely on the size and quality as well as the "art" value of the particular quilt. We have five classrooms so it makes a nice little bit of change.
Needed: Fabric and sawing machines.
Source: Lindsey M., FundraisingDeals.com member
Idea: Give and Take Fundraising Board
Premise: Our preschool is currently condicting a great fundraising project. We call it "GIVE & TAKE". On a big foam board located outside of the classroom families can post services they are willing to GIVE or services they want to TAKE. Each service has a pledged donation amount that will go to the preschool. When a family selects a service they remove the pledge card and present it to the author. Examples are: to GIVE - babysitting @ $5 an hour, a home cooked meal delivered to your home for $20, a day with the teacher for $30. To TAKE - furnature moving @ $75, Saturday babysitting for a $25 donation, "taxi service home" for two children @ $10 a week. And because these are donations to the school families can claim them on their taxes. The list continues to grow and is a perfect fundraiser for our cooperative preschool.
Source: Mike T., FundraisingDeals.com member
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