School Christmas Fair????

sarahf191979

:T Thanks for all the great ideas.

bravobeastie we do this too but at the summer fair it always goes down a treat, I think it's a great idea to do!

Siren137 Some game stall sound a good idea, kids always love thing like that, Thanks!

elektra-2007 We have no craft club at school this year but are looking at doing a christmas one for the 6 weeks run up to christmas. The Year 5/6's normally make things for the summer fair so will see if they can do some for the christmas fair.

dizzy lizzie Love the Rainbow idea I bet it looks really nice.

CandyB101/elektra-2007 Lucky Dips will go down a treat and I'm loving the jelli bath idea (Not sure if the teacher/parent stuck on the stall will though:rotfl: )

whitewing I want all the Chocolate...............What a great idea

rainmac Bags of reindeer food Great, I make this every year with my kids I could even suggest one of the younger classes make this :T

And As for asking some of the parents to make cakes we will be asking but we are lucky enough to live near a cake factory and they donate loads of cakes every year

skylight Good Idea, I will see what they say will give a bit more choice to the day!!

greenpixey Another one that maybe the younger ones could do in class


Thanks all for the great ideas. If I get anymore I will share then anyone else doing a fair can benefit also

Thanks Again, Your all great!!

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Jo_F

The kids seem to love the chocolate tombolas, prizes range from the huge bars down to the little cheap Animal bars, or your could use the 2 finger Kitkats for the little prizes.

Someone else suggested finding parents that sell things, this is always good, especially if you have any crafty mums, at this time of year they are all looking for events to attend that are not going to cost the earth for a table, most would be happy to pay about £15 - £20. You could also ask them to dontate something small for the raffle.

DaisyFlower

DS had his first school fair last year and loved the ring toss. Between him and dad they won a few prizes lol and cost me a fortune lol. This used up all the alcohol that was donated - if the kids won they could swap for pop if the parents didnt want the bottle for themselves.

Ping pong balls into cups was another fun one, harder than it sounds and the kids got a little prize if they managed it.

We had 4 or 5 dress down days in november/december to get the prizes or bric and brac etc (small school hence the number of dress down days) - one was for wrap or cards and they sold really well.

The best one though was a classroom set up for children only where they could choose a present for their mum, dad etc and have it beautifully wrapped whilst they did a tag - kids loved this as it was like shopping on their own.

After dress down days cost me a fortune last christmas, i stocked up in the boots sale and have a dozen gift sets in the loft so no last minute rush to buy something this year.

sarahf191979

more great ideas thanks

Jo_F & DaisyFlower

Thanks.

Will be looking into the idea of Stalls to parents, We will be having a PTA Drop in/ coffee morning next month so could suss the ground out then.

Love the idea of a classroom set out for the kids to pick a pressie and get it wrapped.

And the Chocolate tombola is at the top of my list LOL :rotfl:

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Sarah

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jollyjojo

The best selling stall at our Christmas Fayre every year, without fail is the Hamper Stall!

The doors to the fayre open 15mins before the fayre officially opens and there is always a queue for the Hamper Stall.

We ask the parents to send in unwanted baskets, (of which it would appear that most people have kicking around at home that they have had flowers toiletries etc in)

We then have a non uniform day and in exchange for wearing home clothes the children bring in things to fill the hampers (we send a list of suitable items home!)

The fun bit, then comes when 5 or 6 members of the PTFA meet at someones home (with wine, pizzas and nibbles!) and construct the hampers.

They look just like the ones on the hampers thread.

We do tiny teeny ones with a few sweets and rubbers etc in that we sell for 50p, right up to big ones that we sell for about £10.00.

Our school only has about 90 children in it and yet we get enough stuff to make about 40/50 baskets.

We were a bit dubious about it first year, but they always sell within the first 20 minutes or so and are by far the profit making stall of the evening:j

PS we put a little note in the bottom of the hampers asking people to save the baskets for next year.

sarahf191979

jollyjojo wrote: »

The best selling stall at our Christmas Fayre every year, without fail is the Hamper Stall!

The doors to the fayre open 15mins before the fayre officially opens and there is always a queue for the Hamper Stall.

We ask the parents to send in unwanted baskets, (of which it would appear that most people have kicking around at home that they have had flowers toiletries etc in)

We then have a non uniform day and in exchange for wearing home clothes the children bring in things to fill the hampers (we send a list of suitable items home!)

The fun bit, then comes when 5 or 6 members of the PTFA meet at someones home (with wine, pizzas and nibbles!) and construct the hampers.

They look just like the ones on the hampers thread.

We do tiny teeny ones with a few sweets and rubbers etc in that we sell for 50p, right up to big ones that we sell for about £10.00.

Our school only has about 90 children in it and yet we get enough stuff to make about 40/50 baskets.

We were a bit dubious about it first year, but they always sell within the first 20 minutes or so and are by far the profit making stall of the evening:j

PS we put a little note in the bottom of the hampers asking people to save the baskets for next year.

Thanks, Thats another Fab Idea. Thankyou for Sharing will add that to my list of ideas for the next meeting. And I will be giving a credit to all of you on MSE for your wonderful ideas

Thankyou

Sarah
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paddingtondoo

At every fair that my DD's school has the head walks round selling playing cards for £1 each and then somone pulls the winner out of another pack. The prize is £20 so if you sell them all it's a straight £32 profit.

Our head always sells them all as we're all too scared to say no! :rotfl:

roosterbean

I'm also on the PTA and one of our best selling stalls is the toy stall (donated by parents of course). We also do a fancy dress day and also Breakfast with Santa which goes down well.

Could do a penalty shootout with Santa - usually done at the Summer Fayre here with Lenny the Lion, but could be adapted...

sarahf191979

thanks roosterbean and padingtonboo

more great ideas

Thankyou so much

Sarah
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Yorkygirl

at our school fair Jam Jars where always the most popular basicall jam jars filled with sweets/lego/mcdonald type giveaways/hair stuff/beads/art stuff/small toys/marbles/ youre getting the idea......no matter how many were dontated we could easily have sold them 3 times over. We did end up putting a raffle ticket number on them and they had to pick a number out as the older kids did get a bit over exited about choosing otherwise. We sold them at a £1 each