Two Words:
C O W ~ P L O P
One of our teachers suggested this at our first meeting this year. We are going to do it ourselves in the Spring (I think...lol).
You turn your school field into a grid, marking it off with that white chalk used on baseball diamonds. You have a grid on paper that corresponds to the grid on the field. You sell squares from the grid (it was suggested that we sell the squares for $100 a square, but I don't see that happening. I think smaller squares with a $5 or $10 price tag). You get a recently well fed cow (or other barn yard animal...lol). Turn him loose in the grid (ah, did I mention you would need to rope off the grid?) and where ever he/she 'plops', the person, family or business who purchased that square wins a prize. I think it would be very easy to get a big prize donated, from say, Magic Mountain, Disney, SeaWorld or any other major park. That way all funds go to the school. If you have a grid with 200 squares in it, and sell them for $10.00 a piece, get the cow on loan from a dairy or local farmer, get a Disneyland/World prize package for a family of 6, YOUR school would make $2000. Figured as it was presented to us: 100 squares @ $100 a square = $10,000. That's a lot of B.S.!!!
[ 09-08-2002: Message edited by: TheMetzyMom ]</p>