trying to find lucky dip prizes for school fundraiser, 20p or less

Counting_Pennies_2

Can anyone help me?

I am tasked with finding 200 different lucky dip prizes as part of our school's fundraiser. The children are paying 25 pence for the entry, so we need to spend as little as we can in order to make any money.

The price per entry is decided, there is absolutely no debate for that.

If anyone can point me in the direction of anywhere that sells cheap items I would be very grateful.

Many thanks

tori.k

cheap bubbles, hit the pound shop ive often found packs of bouncy balls key rings etc etc that ive spilt for geocaching

mrcow

This is what you need:

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Will cost you 16.6p each once you've factored in postage which is usually the deal-breaker

Children love them

Price your lucky dip at 50p per go and you will not get any complaints about the prize for the money. Make over 30p per go.

Out of 200 prizes, I'd usually buy 98 gliders and then pad the rest out - you'll be hard hit to find anything going (trust me.....I've been doing this for years lol)

hollyh

Hi,

When i ran a Toddler group the local newsagent used to save me the free gifts from the front of unsold magazines. i would collect them each week and by the time it came to do the lucky dip twice a year i would have loads. I also found Homebargains good for cheap bits, packs of crayons etc that i would split into smaller bundles.

never_enough

Hawkins bazzaar used to be good for stuff like that, but not sure if they're still around. Have you thought of asking local shops to donate stuff (for a mention on your flyer or something?)

dizziblonde

Poundshops, get packs of pencils and rubbers and stuff, split them and wrap them up into a little mini-stationery thing. Also the supermarket section for party packs often have things like 6 mini-water pistols or bouncy balls and the like that you can split as well, but when I was running a class raffle ticket reward box it was mainly financed by poundland to be honest.

VeganClaire

Wilkinson's do party bag mixes with lots of small items in a bag (not exactly sure of price per item but it is very cheap.)

Sharra

Baker Ross are pretty good for packs of cheapy toys.
http://www.bakerross.co.uk/

xmaslolly76

Have you had a look through the job lots on ebay :-)

never_enough

Was in Wilkinsons yesterday & they had rubbers, pencils etc 8 for £1, but they wouldn't make much of a prize on their own.