Fundraising ideas - christmas fair

esmf73

Don't forget to charge your stall holders. And ask them for raffle prizes too, cheap advertising for them!!

ciderwithrosie_2

Something we ran many variations of over the years at our school fetes and fayres is the racing game.

You need a long table , or a big piece of board you can mark off into 6 by 6 squares/rectangles with a start square as well so 6 lanes of 6. You need a large dice (schools often have these anyway for maths games) and 6 characters (about 6-8 inches high) made out of thick card, plastic or wood that will stand up and robust enough to handle being moved all afternoon. Traditionally it's horses but one year I took pics of some of the teachers and made them into jockeys on the horses (the kids loved it) and another year we had pokemon characters. So you could do reindeer, penguins, elves or santas.

You need to recruit 6 racers each time before the race can start - charge them whatever you like as long as you're making a profit each time as you have to give a prize to the race winner (packet of sweets/chocolate bar or money back).

Each racer picks a character 1-6 and places it at the start, then you start rolling the dice. Whatever number it lands on that racer moves one square forward. The first racer to get to the end is the winner.

It usually attracts a lot of attention and can be quite noisy with kids/adults cheering on their character but is lots of fun, especially if you have someone running the game who is quite gregarious.

Maysie

punchballons are in the 99p store quite often so way cheaper than baker ross. ok not christmas icons but same job.