Your idea was just what I was looking for ~ I love the idea of giving lottey tickets. Was wondering if you'd share the note you put with the tickets! We're really pressed for time this week so I'd really appreciate it!!
ScottMom-
I bought 300 pencils from Oriental Trader for $.10 each and sold tickets for $1 a chance. Kids kept the pencil, but if they pulled a red-tipped one they got an extra little prize (left overs from Accelerated Reader prizes in previous years). The kids couldn't get enough of it and I felt better giving pencils than lollipops!
For American Education Week, our schools were asked to paint billboards for the food trucks for the district and they supplied the supplies. Last year, all the children held red, white or blue balloons in the design of a flag and launched them. This even made the local news, maybe so people wouldn't wonder about the 500 extra balloons stuck in the trees around the school!
Tell me how you made that much on Pick-A-Pencil.
The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating-in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life. --Anne Morris
As a new Vice President I was struggling to find a low cost gift for over 100 teachers, staff and aides for the NEA's American Education Week (11/14-20). From their website I found this one, which ties in nicely with the theme this year: Celebrating the American Dream. I'll be buying everyone a lottery ticket for $1 with a "Thanks a million" note attached. I'm so happy - I'm under my $2/person budget!
Just thought I'd pass the idea along since I've found so many great ideas on this PTO Today website. Thanks! (By the way, the Pick-A-Pencil idea I got from someone on this site helped raise over $300 in 3 hours during our pumpkin patch last week!) Thanks a million!
