A good prize for a 14 year old?

YORKSHIRELASS

Just a thought about tickets. DS2 won a pair of tickets to a cricket match last year. It was a great prize and he was very excited. We couldnt leave our eldest son out so bought an extra ticket for him. Then there was travel there and back (20 miles each way), food, parking etc. It was a great day but it wasnt exactly free!

I have 15 and 17 yo boys. Chocolate would always get them interested and I woudnt be bothered about them winning chocolate (its a one off after all). Other than that a lot of other suggestions might appeal to one of my boys but not the other. Sorry but the exam kit they would both hate!

duchy

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

Just a thought about tickets. DS2 won a pair of tickets to a cricket match last year. It was a great prize and he was very excited. We couldnt leave our eldest son out so bought an extra ticket for him. Then there was travel there and back (20 miles each way), food, parking etc. It was a great day but it wasnt exactly free!

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You could say that about any prize

I've seen people win fantastic holidays and then grumble about the cost of renewing passports
or people with six kids complaining that a prize was only for two adults and two kids
Free cinema tickets - lets grumble there was bus fare to get there and then had to pay for popcorn
and on....and on........

In your case you could have had one parent take one child.......or had another child who hated cricket .

It doesn't matter what a prize is there's always someone who will decide it is less than ideal for one reason or another

You had a great day out for less than it should have cost you -if it was too much money even so then perhaps you need to have a family chat about not entering for prizes that aren't completely free

VeGGie-STyLe

I would go with a chocolate/sweets hamper.
If the aim is to sell as many tickets as possible to teenagers, then, putting principles aside, sugar sells!

I saw on 'Educating Cardiff' that they were doing some sort of fundraiser, and a couple of the kids were phoning around companies from the teacher's office to get some prizes for it. They did quite well IIRC. Would your son be up for doing that?

sheramber

An Amazon voucher. Gives them a wide choice of items.

Bogof_Babe

A JD Sports voucher, if you have a local branch.

Sagz_2

Try your local pizza places, they might give you a few vouchers for freebies. Or maybe you could put together some "party deal" for the 8 quid? Pizza, fries, fizz for 4 people?

I used to get a good response to my requests for prizes by writing letters clearly marked "Official Scrounging Letter" and signed by me, the chief scrounger!

Spendless

The business studies class at my kids school, does something similar to this. Gives groups of kids a set amount, let them buy something to sell in school and the kids get to keep any profit.

It is always the chocolate and sweets that do the best.