gifts for 50-70p each - school fayre

MoaningMyrtle

Small boxes of After Eights in Tesco for 49p, mugs from multipacks, tea lights in small glass holders (Ikea great for both of these), car washing sponges.

My DD bought me a 'surprise present' when she was 4 in Reception class, the poor little mite dropped it on the way home, it was a mug and it smashed. I don't know who was most upset, her or me.

It is a very popular stall though!! :j

sianb84

you could buy a bulk load of keyring blanks and cut some paper/card to correct size (easier to use guillitine) and get the kids to decorate.

You could also do the same with coaster and magnet blanks.

sianb84

buy in bulk some small polystryene (sp) trays buy some plaster of paris (my dad used to get huge bags of stuff from builders merchants for the playschemes I used to go to) and the kids could do hand print in the plaster. As long as the fayre is a few days before the end of term this would work fine as you could write the name and class of the child on the bottom of the tray before they start.

Poppy9

Claire's in the Bridgend outlet has 5 items for £5 but usually a week after this promo it changes to 10 items for £5.

Also scour supermarkets for clearance items in all depts. Last year I picked up bright pink and orange frizbies for 10p each.

A good fund raiser for the raffle is a M&S Hamper. Ask parents to donate any item of food or toiletries from M&S. We used to get enough for 3 good hampers from a school of just under 200 children. We also used to make up children's hampers - one boy and one girl.

jane130

on thrusday the 8th Lidl are having some smelly candle sets in , i don;t know what they will be like but its 29 pieces for £3.99 maybe good for spliting up and wrapping in cellophane .

http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20071108.p.Scented_Candle_Set_29_Pieces.ar6

funnyfreckle

Just wondering if you would have time for the children to sit down and decorate a calendar. You can get them from places like Baker Ross starting from about 10p or print them off the pc yourself. I'm sure any parent would like to receive their own child's masterpiece and be able to look at it throughout the year. If you don't want them drawing, could you perhaps use a digital camera and printer and take a picture of each child and then print it out to stick on the calendar? However, I guess this would be a lot more work for you.

A school near us doesn what Jellycat40 suggested and gets the parents to donate unwanted but new gifts which seems to work well and obviously costs nothing. I'm sure the same things probably keep appearing year after year!

HTH