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Our school has signed up to run the PTOSanta program. It looks fun and the kids will love it! Found it at PTOSanta.com. This looks like a no/very low investment program that will turn in some good numbers for our school. We are excited about it!

Dear Concerned,
You do not " think " the website is, you KNOW it is because you've left the exact same post in 4 different threads... Are you the vendor, owner, or just a commissioned employee? You're definately NOT a school or PTO group... just exactly who are you?

[ 10-10-2004, 03:12 AM: Message edited by: TheMetzyMom ]

I started a list of fundraisers & acitivies from all the reading I have done here & elsewhere. Here it is. I think I got all the activities out so it is just fundraisers. Hope this helps.

Fundraisers:

Spaghetti Dinner
St. Patty’s Dinner
Ice Cream Social
Mystery Dinner Theater (performance by the drama department)
Dominoe's Pizza Night (other restaurants do this as well)
School wide Art Show & Theme Basket Silent Auction
- All student participate
- Baskets are put together by class (room parent)
- Those who wish can enter contest to be juried by local artists
- winners spend 1 hour lesson with local artist
Fall Welcome Festival
Art/Poetry Book by the children
Cookbook by the parents - ask young kids how they would make something & add their recipe
Teachers vs. Students games
Potlucks & BBQ’s
Plays - Dama Dept
Golf Tournament
Brochure/Catalog Sales: Cherrydale Farms, RedWheel, there are so many!
Kids Art on products Fundraiser
Entertainment Books
Silent Auction
- Match your funds
- Walmart will do this up to $1000
- Find other businesses to do the same
Read-A-Thon
Jog-A-Thon
Plant Sales
Book Fair (Fall/Spring)
Penny Drive
Box Tops
Campbell’s
Tyson
Verizon
Smith’s
Albertsons
Kash for Kids – Recycling cartridges
Bumper Stickers
School Supply Program
- Can do through Walmart
Spirit Wear
Popcorn & Pickle Sales

Here are three ideas that we tried for the first time last year that were succesful and simple:

"Fortune" Cookie Sale - a bakery donated dozens of cookies (oat meal, chocolate chip, etc.) to us that we sold at a holiday fair. The "fortune" part was that the bakery included a free month's supply of cookies coupon in one of the bags(2 dozen per week). Needless to say, the winner was very popular that month and the bakery received some great publicity [img]smile.gif[/img]

Smileysbookstore.com is another we tried for the first time. I can't remember what post it was but I found their name here somewhere. We were pleased with the service and it really is a "no-brainer" because they handle it all.

Dunk the Mayor - was real popular too. We had him sit at our dunk tank during our Summer Carnival and over 400 people paid $5 each to try and dunk him! The funny thing is he is well liked [img]smile.gif[/img]

Ummmmm - maybe another idea.

Thanks!