Think sidewalk chalk. Think entrances, walkways, tennis courts, parking lots, driveways and bricks. Get creative and design a welcome back sign, a dance ad, and a spirit logo. We’re the Panthers and if the weather cooperates, we’ll have paw prints leading up the walkways to the school for the first day. A hose or Mother Nature can erase your artwork and you’re ready to start again.
Fundraising and Awareness
Ideas which seek to raise money for a school, charity, organization or campaign, or which seek to raise awareness about issues, campaigns, etc.
Kiss a Pig
If you can, find a teacher that is willing to kiss a pig for donations. Or you can have 4 teachers volunteer and the teacher with the most money gets the opportunity.
Tell the students that if you raise a certain amount of money the teacher will kiss a live pig at the next pep assembly. At the event, sell pictures of the teacher smoochin’ the pig for a buck apiece. Students love it, and lots of staff will contribute to the funds as well.
Stephanie McTaggart
Skyview High School Denver Colorado USA
Christmas Tree Lights Charity
Have students sell light bulbs ($1.00 each) and hang the light bulbs in the front of your school in the form of a Christmas tree and donate the money to a local charity. Our Grade 7 Team at Florenceville Middle School raised $1200.00 and split it 50/50 to Christmas Daddies and a local family (cancer).
Jay Colpitts
Have a Cow! Holy Cow! Udderly Outrageous Fundraising!
World Vision Canada has a gift catalogue that allows you to purchase farm animals for families in underdeveloped countries. We found their catalogue to be a great way to raise money for this worthy cause. Students don’t want to just give cash, they want to know what their money is doing. We decided to purchase a dairy cow, because we are a rural school in cow country. The cows cost $600 each and our goal was to purchase one cow. We raised enough money to purchase two cows! It helped that one of our council members had access to a life-sized cow from her dad’s work. We placed it in the principal’s office along with lots of hay.
Check out the website for the World Vision gift catalogue.
Amy Stevens
Elmira District Secondary
Car Smash for Charity
Sell tickets in advance for a car smash for charity. You can also sell tickets on the day, but with promotion, you will sell more tickets when you sell them in advance on this event. We sold ours for three swings for $2 and auctioned off the chance to be one of the first three people to swing the sledge hammer. We got a car donated from a local wrecker and had the fluids and window glass removed by our auto shop. (The windshield remained because it is safety glass.) Swingers had to wear safety glasses and work gloves and could not get on the vehicle.
We raised over $250 for our charity.
Maddie Charnuskie
EDSS
Kraft Dinner Dominoes
Collecting cans of food for the Food Bank can become a weak activity as people get tired of collecting the same old thing. Instead, collect boxes of Kraft Dinner and set them up like dominoes on the gym floor. Have a member of the class that brings in the most Kraft Dinner be the person who knocks over the first Kraft Dinner domino and sets all of the others flying. You can make very interesting patterns with all of the different colours of boxed macaroni. When you are setting up the dominoes, you can take one or two out of a pattern (ever 50 boxes) so that a slip of the hand doesn’t set the whole display off by mistake.
Make sure that you check with your Food Bank to see if they want to have all of this nutritious mac’n cheese!
Dave Conlon