What stalls do you have at your local fete?

Easy stall are white elephant (anything anyone will give)
Coconut shy. need coconuts and shys?? (yes I am being facetious)!! big word don't know if I have spelt it right.

Cake stall with james etc.,

Palm reading member of family or person that knows how to do it. Tent and gypsy outfit.


Face painting. again talented member of commitee or family.

Darts. Cards pinned to a board score above a certain amount and win a prize (have to work out amount of prize money to cards. against cost of entry)

Hoop la I know it sounds awful but as in all fairs the good prizes have to be put onp linths that are not easy to cover with hoop.

Duck race - if near a stream otherwise paddling pool with ducks and magnets.

The stall we have always found makes the most money is the strawberries and cream stall. Loads of punnets of streawberries cut all strawbs into 4 pile into dish add cream and charge £1 each. They sell well.

chocolate chopsticks - selection of gold coins and as many as they can pick up in 20 seconds.
soft drinks hoop- la
ping pongs in jam jars
cereal killer - knock down individual boxes of cereal (filled with sand!)
lucky dice - prize every time
pick a card - prize every time
lucky dip
soft toy "coconut" shy
snail racing
beat the goalie
pinata (home made)
and many more - pm if you need instructions more ideas
better still visit loads of school fairs and see what they do

book stall
brick a brack
cake stall
guess the weight of...the cake/guess how many sweets in the jar
a dressed doll...gusee the name of
treasure map, guess where the treasure is?
oh and that annoying beat the buzzer game, top scores wins something everyone else wins penny sweet
shove penny- if you know what i mean,lol

IME, the things which raised the most money for the smallest outlay were the raffle and any tombolas. Teddy tombolas with donated toys, bottle tombola for adults, tin tombola, toiletries tombola ... people love to gamble.

What we found worked well on that theme was a Jam Jar stall: you ask everyone to bring in a jam jar full of something - anything. Then number them up, charge 50p (could probably make that £1 these days!) and give a prize every time.

Ideas to put in the jam jars - coloured pasta, bath bits, stationery, sweets, small biscuits, cakes - if it fits in the jar, use it! And the jar doesn't have to be a jam jar - any size jar will do.

We also used to run a 'best-decorated jam jar' competition before the day of the fete to encourage everyone to bring one in. It also brightened the stall.

Ooh, look, I found this from last year, more ideas, plus I describe Olympic Balloon Throwing! Doesn't raise a huge amount, but great fun!

went to my son's school fair last night and by far the busiest and most profitable stall was a raffle for a wheelbarrow full of beer. It was an absolute winner with the dad's needless to say. I know you said you wanted little outlay but if you bought the beer bogof, or the other way would be to use a tesco 1000 point wine code and have a wheelbarrow full of wine instead. good luck:beer: