Ours does it parent teacher conference week, so the kids visit during the day and make a wishlist, and then the parents can go and buy the books the kids want. The kids can also bring the money to school to purchase the books.
As a working parent, I would love to be able to go with my child and Saturday would be an option. i did stop by ours this year on my lunch a pick a book. i would have rather been with my son and let him pick it.
We just finished our book fair and tried the weekend this year. Our school week was 4 days instead of 5 that week, so being a parochial school, we opened the book fair on Sunday for a few hours following our last mass.
I'd definitely do it again. We average about $1,000 a day in sales and in a few hours on Sunday, we did about 1/2 of that.
If you can't do it on Sunday, I'd try to schedule it around something else that is going on to help motivate parents to stop in on the weekend.
In the past, when we run a book fair, it runs for one school week, with a family night on Thursday night. This year, due to scheduling conflicts, we'll be running it from Tuesday to the following Monday. So, I wanted to suggest trying a Saturday family day. Has anyone tried to have a family day over the weekend? Any idea how it compared, profit wise, with a weeknight?
Thanks!
