We have done (1) movie night and didn't charge any entry fee. What we did make money on was the CapriSuns, Spiced Hot Apple Cider, and Meat Sticks. We collected about $230 from the treats.
We're getting ready to do our 2nd movie night on Jan. 21st, and this time we're going to serve hotdogs/chip/CapriSun and a candy type treat. Will let you know how that goes.
Just out of curiousity, I noticed that the papers I got stated that "admission may be charged to cover the cost of the license, but can NOT exceed the cost of the license". How many of you use Family Movie Night as a fundraiser? How much do you generally make? What do you make the money on?
Back in October we showed Mosters vs. Aliens. Had a whole gym full of kids/parents. Was lots of fun....and I highly recommend them, as they're easy as all get out! We offered free bag of popcorn. Then sold CapriSuns for .50cents, and Hot Spiced Cider for $1.00. Also had a company that donated some Jack Link Meat Sticks so we sold those too. We made roughly $270 from the foods...didn't charge any admission fees. It was completely free unless you wanted the treats.
We hyped up the movie with the free bookmarks and poster print outs from USA Movie Licencing where you have to purchase your movie license (which is mandatory) because of copyright laws. Here is the site to contact (as long as it's not a FOX Movie): www.movlic.com/k12/index.html
In Nov our students did a fundraiser and one of our prizes was that the TOP selling classroom would get to pick out our movie for January's Movie Night. They're thrilled and have the choice between G-Force and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
This time around, we're going to sell the Capri-Suns, along with hotdogs and bag of chips, then a couple munchie candies. Still going to have our free popcorn too.
We had movie night last night. We showed Polar Express, and had purchased bells for the students. Santa made a guest appearance and his elf handed out all of the bells. Admission to get in was one canned good per person, which will be donated to the Salvation Army. We sold popcorn and lemonade during the movie.
The downfall- we had a lot of rowdy kids which made it very hard to hear the movie. The parents were all expected to stay, but once you get kids together with their friends, the parents are talking and discipline kind of went out the door. We also requested kids wear their pjs and bring blankets to sit on, but we had quite a few complaints about not providing actual seating.
Overall it was a big success, it was our first movie night-we've definitely learned from it!!
Someone had mentioned that they showed a current movie at the school. How do you go about renting a movie that is currently running in movie theatre? If any one has a clue, I'd love to know.
We have had successful movie nights for our district (4 schools). We usually offer the latest movie that isn't more than 90 minutes long and have concessions available. Half way thru the movie we take a bathroom break and play some games at the end of the night to help burn off the sugar consumed thru the evening.
