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New Family Night Event Ideas

10 years 11 months ago #164676 by Rose H
Love it, Debbie! Thanks for sharing!

How did the pumpkin cake walk work?

Rose C.
10 years 11 months ago #164672 by Debbie Shelton
Replied by Debbie Shelton on topic Re:New Family Night Event Ideas
We hosted our first Harvest hoedown for our school community and we had a huge turnout! Almost 250 people attended. We had a DJ planing family friendly tunes, a pumpkin cake walk, a craft area, face painting, and a chili cook off contest with some teachers. We also had a free show by a local clogging group. We made $700 in 2 hours and the goal was not to raise funds but have fun! Everyone loved it.
11 years 1 month ago #164467 by Rose H
Hi everyone!
This thread has so many great ideas for family night event ideas, thought it would be helpful to bump it up in case anyone is looking for something new!

Also, wanted to mention that we just published an article on winter events in our October issue of PTO Today Magazine. The online link to the story is here: www.ptotoday.com/pto-today-articles/arti...inning-winter-events

Rose C.
13 years 11 months ago #155375 by schadley
Love the idea of the family fitness night.
14 years 2 weeks ago #155094 by Lynn
Replied by Lynn on topic Re:New Family Night Event Ideas
Thank you brockwood for that info. We were wondering how to do it the right way, and your info helped us get what we needed! Thanks!
14 years 4 months ago #153873 by brookwoodpto
I think there is some misinformation going on about movie nights.

First of all you can not just show a movie - you must have a movie license to do so. Watching a movie at school is not like watching a movie at home - you are making a public performance so you must get a license to do so. Schools have some freedom to show movies without having a license - but according to the laws you must have a curriculum tied to the use of the movie - which generally does not apply during just a movie night. For example, if a teacher is reading the book "Winn Dixie" and then shows the movie - that is part of a curriculum.

Another mistruth is that you cannot charge for the movie. According to the people we have our movie license with you can charge, but you just cannot make more money that the cost of the license. For example - a one time fee to show one movie is $75, therefore I can make $75 from admission but no more than that. We have purchased a yearly license for $350. So we can charge admission but we can never ever make more than $350 from admission. if you are charging an admission price, make it very low so that you don't go over that amount and then make the bulk of your money from concessions.
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