School Christmas Fayre - Any ideas?

amanda40

I am looking for ideas for the school Christmas Fayre.

So far we are looking to have Santa, Book & toy Stall, Tombola, Face Painting, Puppet Show in Tea Room, Home Bakes.

Does anyone have any other ideas - for low outlay but fun.

many Thanks in advance

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scottishfreebiehunter

My son's school normally have a fete and put one of the teachers in small goals and have to score against them usually PE teacher or someone they do not like lol,though they are more than happy coughing up to try and put one past them and get a lolly if they do not.

Xmas Baubles made to order with person name on them with gold glitter,a few cheap baubles and a gold glitter pen and away you go ,sell on the night or take money and give to kids at school few days later.


Xmas santa letter again not much expense if someone has a printer get a letter of a internet site ask the parent's to put down there pet's name,friends,favourite toys etc and it can be inserted into the story you choose.
You can get a few pounds for this and then sent out second class post to the kid's,always nice to see the smile on there face.


A bottle of whisky locked in a small cabinet with many various keys and they have to pay(adults of course)to chose a jey which unlocks the bottle.

Hope these help

Nenen

This is really easy... I can't remember what we called it though... pound raffle'..... or something!!!

Basically it is a kind of raffle/lottery but you don't have to buy/beg for any prizes.... instead they get half the takings!

People pay either 50p or £1 with a single coin and you write their name on a list next to a number and put the same numbered sticker on the coin which is put into a large bucket. You get as many people to have a go as you can... the more coins you have in the bucket the more likely people are to join in as they get tempted by a large cash prize! At the end of the event one coin is picked out of the bucket at random and the winning number gets half the coins in the bucket while the school get the other half.

Hope this helps and have fun :j :j

pavlovs_dog

i really like that idea nenen!

greenpixey

Perhaps sell some reindeer food???




If you got some spare fabric and are good at sewing or you can buy small organza bags on ebay fairly cheep (around 11p each) and fill them with oat, asda do a big bag for 48p, and then add some glitter
If you sell them for 50p you should be in profit by at least 30p per bag

Edit: Sorry about the picture being so large, I'm new at this

shykins

1...do a tombola and ask each class to bring in different items eg class 1, smellies, class2.. sweets etc and give a prize to the class that brings in the most amount of items

2..a cake stall.. send the children home with a paper plate and ask them to fill them with cakes to bring back the day of the fayre to sell

3...xmas present stall, buy small presents (poundland good for this) and resell them to the children for their family,, the children pick the present and u wrap them

HTH

papworth

you can buy kits online eg at yellowmoon to make snow shakers - charge the kids to make one

Have a wish room - ask for donations of unwanted gifts then have a room with all the gifts in which only the children can enter (no parents) They choose a gift for a nominal amount eg £1/£2 and it is wrapped in Xmas paper for them to take home and put under the Xmas tree

sallycinnamon99

We had a Christmas Fayre in our school and it was really successful. Each class made some items to be sold - like the reindeer food, napkins in holders (card cut out into shapes of santa, snowmen, etc and wrapped around), Clay and glitter decorations for the tree, painted glass tealight holders (you can get the glass holders cheaply from Ikea and some cheap glass paints), shortbread (re-packaged in cellophane), Boxes of sweets, Boxes of pot pourri, etc.

The classes did all of this as an enterprise activity throughout the term. This meant that they decided what to make, the materials needed, made them, decided on a price to make a profit, made posters and letters etc to invite people to the fayre (these were put up in the local shops and church etc). The kids had a great time making everything and having a hand in the decisions and we made several hundred pounds on the day.

We also wrote to local businesses for donations for tea, coffee, cakes and raffle prizes as well as asking parents for donations.
Sounds like a lot of work but if everyone does one part it really isn't.

Sorry for all the text. Hope this is of some help,
Emma.

minimacka

What about a bottle draw, you could get the children to donate a bottle (wine, pop, sauce, shampoo) any bottle tie a string round the neck of the bottle and feed it through a tube, also make some dunny strings that dont have a bottle attached to it so when you pull the string you either win a bottle or nothing. Hope ive explained it ok.

bluenose1

I love going to the Christmas Fayre, anyway -

A popular one at ours for the kids is for them to decorate a small cake/ biscuit.
You just buy loads of cheap fairy cakes, think you can get 20 for about a £1.00 in Asda/ Tesco etc. Then just make icing sugar and jars of different decoration -smarties, choc buttons, sprinkles etc.
Charge £0.50 per cake. At our fayre they have small tables and chairs for the kids to sit at.

Also they have a playdough table were they can play to their hearts content for £0.50 Just need home made coloured dough, rolling pins, shapes etc.

Face painting always goes down well.

Teddybear raffle (we had so many donated that all the teddies were numbered and you were on the teddy that corresponded with your ticket.

The Church and School ask the kids to donate unwanted toys/books and have a bric-a-brac stall - very poular.

full-time-mum

Our school does wrapped jam jars which are really popular. You either buy and wrap a jar of jam/pickle etc or get an empty jar and fill with anything from sweets to cotton wool balls.

You do need to specify that jars of jam should be unopened - yes some one once wrapped a jar that had a spoonful scooped out!

We also state it mustn't be alcohol as it is popular with the children.
I get baby food jars and then go to the poundshop and buy cheap wrapped sweets. 1 bag of sweets usually fills 3 jars so £1 outlay = £3 school funds.

Another popular idea which needs a little more organising and support is photo calendars. You can get A4 calendar sheets which have a blank space at the top. You get a digital camera and take photos of the children at the fayre and print them out there and then. You obviously need a reasonable printer and a computer available and someone technical to man it. You would also need to work out cost of the ink - it might not be profitable.

My SIL once did laminated bookmarks. Cut out the bookmarks and provide some colouring pens/stickers. The children then decorate their book marks and then you laminate them in batches as you go along.

Panning for pennies. You need a large tub of sand, small coins plus a few larger ones and some seives. The children scoop sand into the sieve and get to keep whatever is found. I think you need to experiment with the ratio of sand to coins.

Treasure map. Map covered in squares. Choose a square and at the end of the day, open the envelope with the winning square in.

I've seen the reindeer food done with cellophane and hessin.