School Christmas Fair????

pennyfrog

OK- just noticed how similar the tub one is to yorkygirl's jam jars!!!!! Definitely worth doing in whatever form, though!

How about a pick-a-lolly?
You could get the lollies (the sucky- sweetie kind!) from a wholesale store (which you probably have a membership card for as a PTA anyway) or, even better, ask a local sweetshop to donate.
You also need a tub of sweets (something like haribo or penny- sweets) and a few chocolate bars or 'nicer' sweets/ small bags of sweets.
Make lots of holes in the bottom of a cardboard box, big enough to push the sticks of the lollies into.
Before you put the lollies in the holes, colour or stick coloured paper/ tape onto some of the sticks. (eg, red, blue, green and gold)
The kids pay something like 20p a go and pick a lolly. White (no coloured end) means they just get the lolly, red (or whatever) means they get a sweet from the tub as well, and so on, each colour getting something 'better', with gold winning the choc bar. Obviously, you have fewer lollies with the top prizes on them. This way, again, it's one they come back to alot to try and win the extras- and they get something no matter what, so no-one loses.

How about the old favourites like:
Guess the number of sweets in a jar (winner gets the jar of sweets, name drawn out of a hat if there's more than one correct answer.)

Treasure Map- just needs someone to draw a map, put a grid on it and get people to pick a square where they think the 'treasure' is buried. (You can either have a pre-determined square or just randomly pick out one of the squares with names on at the end to win the prize). You can make it seasonal- where is Santa's lost toy sack, or base it on a current craze- eg, we did a Harry Potter f'ind the Snitch' one year.

How about decorate a Gingerbread man? You get undecorated gingerbread men and a small selection of icing tubes, sprinkles, smarties, etc and for 50p (or whatever) the kids get a gingerbread man and get to decorate it themselves. You need to keep an eye out to make sure that some kids don't go bonkers and pile everything on one little gingerbread man!

One year we persuaded a cheapo Christmas shop to sell us Reindeer antlers (those head band types) for 50p each, and we sold them at the fete for £1 each, but the child also got a very basic Reindeer face painting done as well for that (just a black or red nose, the white bits round the mouth/ cheek area and black 'dots' on the white.- if that makes sense!). You could always make it a 'make and take' session, though- get the kids to put together a cardboard headband with ears before being face painted, perhaps.

Ummm, what else.. bottle tombola? Just bottles of anything (shampoo, ketchup, washing up liquid, boozy stuff)

If you have the space outside- and a place the head will allow it (playground, if accesible?)- how about trying one of our popular attractions- drive a Car? try contacting the AA (the RAC did this one year with us) driving school for an instructor to come along with a dual control car. We marked out a barrier with traffic cones (borrowed for free- contact the police road/ traffic dept) and charged £1 a go for each child to drive the car round the course, obviously with the instructor in control of the pedals and keeping an eye on the steering. I don't know what arrangement you'd make- but we split the cost 50/50 with the instructor- (50p each per go) and he got free advertising out of it too. Something a bit different anyhow!

sarahf191979

You all have such super ideas, Thankyou so much for sharing them, I can't wait for the PTA meeting on tuesday now........

I only joined a few months ago, so I'm not sure if our PTA has a cash & Carry Card but I will ask about that...thanks for the idea pennyfrog.

Love the Jar/ Tub idea, think that would go down a treat...

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


Thanks Again

Sarah
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Dijor

We had a fab idea last year for our PTA. We filled (or half filled) a wheelbarrow with wine, beer etc and had our "Barrow of Beer" raffle. Basically, we lined a new wheelbarrow with straw or similar, placed probably around 20 bottles or so of donated alcohol, then had the headmistress walk around all night at the Christmas Fair selling the raffle tickets at £1 per ticket. The wheelbarrow was wrapped with cello and large bows etc so it looked absolutely gorgeous and the winning ticket wins everything, barrow included! I think we probably made £250 in ticket sales!

A winner at getting the menfolk to part with some money as they trudge around the Christmas Fair!!!

sarahf191979

Thanks for the Great Ideas everyone, they all went down a storm this afternoon. Thanks so much for sharing.

Sarah
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furrypig

Sad that my children's school doesn't do a Christmas fair but the last school they were at did and I was on the PTA in charge of the raffle/auction if we got some good prizes!

Ideas are
cake stall
bottle tombola (brought in the day before for a mufti day)
presents for parents stall
jolly jars
wine or water stall
50/50 bucket
hamper raffle (each class makes a huge hamper up of Christmas gifts and tickets are only sold on the day abd are £1 each makes a lot of money!

Oh just looked at last post and I've come on here too late!!

sarahf191979

furrypig wrote: »

Sad that my children's school doesn't do a Christmas fair but the last school they were at did and I was on the PTA in charge of the raffle/auction if we got some good prizes!

Ideas are
cake stall
bottle tombola (brought in the day before for a mufti day)
presents for parents stall
jolly jars
wine or water stall
50/50 bucket
hamper raffle (each class makes a huge hamper up of Christmas gifts and tickets are only sold on the day abd are £1 each makes a lot of money!

Oh just looked at last post and I've come on here too late!!

Thanks furrypig, will be going to another meeting next week to finalise any Ideas and add new ones if we have anymore room left, So thanks for sharing yours.

Much Appreciated.

Sarah
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Amanda65

Yorkygirl wrote: »

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

We always did jam jars in the summer and crackers for the Christmas fair - basically asked everyone to bring in one or two homemade crackers (just a loo roll cover in crepe paper and stickers with one or two little bits inside it).

The teachers always ran this stall (kids love seeing 'Miss' outside teh classroom). Each cracker was put on a face up playing card and the teachers had another pack. You paid 50p, take a playing card and win the cracker on the corresponding one.

kissmekate_2

Hi

its gotta be the 'chocolate fountain'. 3 items on a stick (mashmallows strawbs, mini-doughnuts etc) and they get to dip it.
NB worth having a tarpaulin on floor around the fountain!

Also we ask each child to fill a loo-roll (sterilised in microwave) with sweets etc then wrap it like a christmas cracker.Bring into school and its then sold as a bran-tub dip.

Also do a homemade mincepie (made by the enthusiastic Nursery mums and kids) and a cup of mulled wine for a £1. We also sell these at the nativity show and christmas concert. Goes down very well.

Have sold our own school portrait tea-towels previously. The kids each draw themsleves and it is then added to all their other class drawings and printed onto a tea-towel to then be sold. Cant remember which company did it though.

Hope this helps
Kissmekate

beaver2111

I am looking for new ideas for our fayre this year but here's a couple of ours that we have.
Decorate a card - we have templates, stencils, glitter, envelopes etc, kids make and decorate their own cards, they love it,

Sweets in a can - we have 6 tin cans on a bench filled with 4 or 5 sweets, kids throw a ball at the cans and knock off the can and grab the sweets that fly out. This went down a storm at our summer fayre so we are giving it a go at Christmas.

Find the ticket - A large crate or tub is filled with shredded paper. 3 tickets are hidden in the paper, written on the tickets are LOSER, WINNER
loser stills gets a penny chew and the winner gets a nice sweet or small gift.

We also have, guess the weight of the cake, how many sweets in the jar, choc tombola, bottle tombola,(anything from shampoo to fizzy drinks), how many smarties can you mocve from a dish with chopsticks? name the teddy.

esmf73

bride_on_a_budget wrote: »

Hi,
i sell stuff at my sons school christmas fair, i run a business selling pj's ect and i give the school a fixed fee of £20 to have a table at their fair.

we also had a christmas present stall where all the gifts are under £4 and kids can pick gifts for family members
i think their were mini notebooks, pretty pens, photo frames mens novelty socks and loads more, they wrapped everything apart from 2 of each item so the kids could choose and the parents could not see waht they bought

i hope this helps

bride on a budget

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