I love the hanging door knob idea. Our teachers and staff get the heart cookies with the following poem on the tag:
There’s so much excitement the children may burst
so before the year starts we want to say first
that we parents know of the work that you do
all the care that you take so as this year starts new,
slowly munch on this heart before the first day begins
and may it cause you to smile as our little hearts walk in…
MBES PTO
And we tucked one into each mailbox. Then the PTO packets get handed to the members as they rejoin. They have a committee phamplet, a PTO flier, the calendar that we do, and this year free car magnets for PTO members (they cost us 1.84)and we'll sell those as well for 4.50 to non PTO members.
The paper scoops are part of our membership drive. We have large cones that we will fill with these scoops of colored paper--one per grade and build the membership cones so folks can see how their grade is stacking up. It is just a visual reminder, and tonight at the orientation we have a bell for the kids to ring if their parents join and then they get to put the scoop on the cone. We're going to hang them in the hallway until our first PTO meeting (and Ice Cream Social) when we'll take the scoops and put them into one big cone representing the PTO. Then as a celebration, we'll get the children ice pops for one of the lunches as a celebration for us all. I'll let you know how it works....(ps I think I got this idea from these posts) d
Great idea! Who gets the welcome back cookies? and who gets the PTO packets?
We send a PTO packet to every family in our school and have a similar day where we get together over bagels and stuff the packets. We then split up with our kids and deliver all the packets, by hanging them on their door knobs. A case of 1000 hanging door knob bags costs only $25 to $30 (much less than manila envelopes)and we don't have to pay the postage on 350 oversized envelopes. The kids think it's fun going door to door, too!
What do you do with the ice cream scoops for membership, too...
Well--we had a really successful PTO workday at my house today. I would really encourage folks to give this a try. Make it personal (we have an email list) folksy, let kids come, and have things organized to accomplish. We put together 100 PTO welcome packets, decorated, bagged and tagged with a welcome back poem 88 heart shaped cookies (previously backed), got 8 welcome back signs made as well as finding someone who is going to make a huge welcome back vinyl sign for the school, 6 balloon weights made (for welcome back balloon bouquets for the school entrances and 300 paper scoops of ice cream for our membership ice cream cones. All of that work in 2.5 hours and new people showed that had never come before. Now tomorrow another group is going to assemble 230 school supply kits...so hopefully this will go smooth as well. These days are fun but you can't do them too often or folks tire of them...but once or twice a year...it's fun.
