We have two different companies providing the food. Dominos Pizza will have a booth and give us 25% of what they sell and the company that rents us the inflatables will set up a seperate tent to sell cotton candy, funnel cakes, nachos, and popcorn and give us 25% of what he sells. That way we don't have to pay for anything or find volunteers to staff those booths.

This amount wouldn't be enough for our event-- we count on our families spending between 40-100.00 during the evening-- between food, games and raffles.

one more thing... candy....

one year, we put candies in large bowls on each table and it disappeared in seconds. this year, we made goody bags with local donations of free kids meals.

one year we did vendor booths and had them pass out candies. we made money off vendor booth fees, but candy disappeared again bc kids went round and round 5 times.

we have 3 charges: $5 per family plus 1 bag candy donation, $8 per family, no candy donations, $10 per family at the door.

good luck!

d

I've been involved with our "Monster Mash" for the past 4 years. We've been very successful.

we have 745 students, about 200 plus their families and siblings attend each year.

budget: $1500. this covers DJ, decorations, prizes, food, games.

we charge $5 per family whether you have 1 child or 10.

activities: DJ, costume contest, plinko for prizes, tattoos, spider ring toss, bowling for ghosts (painted gourds) and a haybail setup for pictures.

decorations: halloween stuff, crepe paper, ribbons, balloons, lights (keep it simple, it's gonna be dark!)

food: pizza $1/slice. free items: chips, pretzels, gold fish, water, punch (donated from local McDonalds)

prizes: best costume for each grade level, best teacher costume, best adult costume

volunteer tips: use local high school students. they have to fulfill community service hours.

we hold ours at a local high school since they have a larger space than our school does.

We usually profit abuot $900 each year. This is a "give back" to our community, not intended as a fundraiser.

if you are doing it for the first time, than I would keep it simple.

we hold a spring fling carnival in May/June where we have inflatables outside.

tips: ask local churches or other schools to borrow their games.

email me directly if you have other questions or would like to see our fliers and volunteer forms.

Diem

We are a school of 600-- we budgeted 5,000 or our Spring Fair and we bring in about 10,000 annually. We pre-sell tickets for our game area 5-1.00 before event and 4-1.00 day of event. We also sell food -- hot dogs, chips, drinks, ice cream and cotton candy -- And we have approx. 12-14 baskets made up that we raffle off- tickets are 1.00 a piece -- plus we have another raffle with larger prizes such as 500.00/400.00/ PSP/ Nintendo DS/ REs. gift cards... etc... a fun night out with some profit.

We have inflatables, games and sell food. We sell pre-sale wristbands for unlimited use of the inflatables ($8 presale; $10 day of) and sell 5 tickets for $1 presale and 4 tickets for $1 the day of. Our presales typically cover the majority of our costs. All of our food and drink was donated and dads volunteered to grill and sell the food. This is where we made the profit. Our school has 1400 children and 74 classrooms. We spent $5000 for inflatables, decorations, games and prizes. We made $8000 profit.

Hope this helps.