If you are looking for something simple and easy, we do a nacho, candy bar, coke sale. We have just over 300 students and clear $400-500 per sale. We go to Sam's for the chips and cheese. Heat the cheese in the crock pot in the morning. We use 2-3 boxes of chips and 2 cans of cheese, thinned with milk or water. We purchase candy bars when they are on sale at 3/$1. We sell nachos for $1, candy bars, $1 and cokes .50. O yea, in the south all sodas are called "cokes", so let me be more specific. We have Coke and Sprite. Our local Coke distributer will donate to our school a couple of times a year for events and we use any left over for the sale, the rest we purchase when 2 liters are on sale. Also, our local fast food restuarants are so good to donate cups and other items to help us through the year. I know some schools might frown on the "non-healthy" snack, but ours doesn't mind letting the kids have this as a treat 4 or 5 times and year. The kids LOVE it and our parents are very supportive of this fundraiser. Of course you won't make a killing, as they say, but it is a decent fundraiser especially if you need to raise funds quickly for something. A major fundraiser at our school that raises over $5000 (remember, 300 students), is Home Interior candle sale. We have a rep that will do all the packaging and sorting for each classroom, so not too much work on the schools part.
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