Fundraising ideas for 8th grade?

[rdsx28]

Hi,
I am looking for suggestions for some easy, different fundraisers. My daughter's class needs to raise money for their year end Washington trip and class activities. I would appreciate any suggestions you can offer. Thanks so much!

 

[njmom47]

Hi,
I am looking for suggestions for some easy, different fundraisers. My daughter's class needs to raise money for their year end Washington trip and class activities. I would appreciate any suggestions you can offer. Thanks so much!

We have done a town-wide yard sale, % key cards for restaurants, clothing drives, gift calendar, Mother's Day flowers, and sports cards as well as more traditional (cookies, car wash, holiday pies from a local bakery). We have a chain restaurant that does a Pancake breakfast that is very successful.

 

[worm761]

Can they offer gift wrapping around the holidays?

Also, a good time of year to offer movie nights for little kids. This is how DS's 8th grade paid for that kind of stuff. During the holiday season the 8th graders hosted a dinner and movie night. They served pizzas or hot dogs and chips and showed a movie. It was from 5-8 and cost all of $5. It was perfect for those that were wishing to do a little holiday shopping together but without the kids.

Sell Halloween candy grams at lunch times.

Local restaurants are also usually willing to do a percent back on a specific night for sales if you bring in a flyer. You need to choose a slower day like a Tuesday but franchise restaurants are usually willing to do it. It boosts sales on a night that otherwise would be a bit slow.

 

[danygirl]

Car wash

Spaghetti dinner (is there a charity race that would let you do z carbo loading dinner the night before? )

Scrip

Host a Christmas shopping afternoon where you show a movie and the 8th graders entertain the kids while mom goes shopping

 

[DianeV]

Candy bars always sell and are easy money. I saw boxes at Gordons and it looks like you make about $20 a box. It can add up

 

[sharon_wv]

Hi,
I am looking for suggestions for some easy, different fundraisers. My daughter's class needs to raise money for their year end Washington trip and class activities. I would appreciate any suggestions you can offer. Thanks so much!

We just did a bake sale at our local Walmart for my daughters gymnastics club and made $1,251!! It was so easy. It's amazing how generous people are. Some would buy a brownie and throw in a 20 in the bucket. We did not price anything and just asked for donations. I think that was the ticket maybe??

We also did a flea market / yard sale and made 400; a couple car washes that made about 300 each in 4 hours; we just started the scrip program, but it seems to be slow going so far.

Good luck!

 

[McKelly]

I agree with candy bars. Nobody seems to sell them here anymore (not healthy?), always the frozen stuff........which is such a pain to store and deliver, not to mention, it's pricey. Candy bars are cheap and portable. I mean, who doesn't crave a good candy bar after a bad day or a certain time of the month? Try Seroogys.....REALLY good and they sell assorted, molded seasonal chocolates. Santas, snowman, Easter Bunny, chicks, etc.

And if the kids are in 8th grade......no brainer! Are they able to sell at school?

 

[eangel12]

Hi,
I am looking for suggestions for some easy, different fundraisers. My daughter's class needs to raise money for their year end Washington trip and class activities. I would appreciate any suggestions you can offer. Thanks so much!

Do you have a local Krispy Kreme? They do fundraising and our middle schoolers LOVE it.

Candy bars are a good idea!

 

[SEA333]

I used to be the fundraising chairperson for my kids' elementary school, and we did a monthly event that each grade sponsored (aka...the teachers were asked to find volunteers, which really meant I did all the pre-work and the same 5 people always volunteered, just like normal LOL) There were 500 kids in the school, and we would usually net about $400, which over the course of the year added up to be about $3200, that went directly to the teachers for extra classroom wish list items/supplies.

We did Hat Day - everyone paid $1.00 to wear a hat, and got an entry into a raffle drawing for various gift cards

Donut day - Tim Hortons gave us a DEEP discount on their donut holes, which we sold for 5/$1.00 - the kids LOVED these

Ice Cream sundae day - a local ice cream shop donated most of the supplies for the kids to make their own sundaes...it was a terrific setup - they had the ice cream prepacked into small cups, and the kids came through and told us what they wanted from their choice of chocolate syrup, sprinkles, whipped cream, etc

We also did pajama day, read-a-thons, movie nights, and a carnival.

 

[robinb]

Also, a good time of year to offer movie nights for little kids. This is how DS's 8th grade paid for that kind of stuff. During the holiday season the 8th graders hosted a dinner and movie night. They served pizzas or hot dogs and chips and showed a movie. It was from 5-8 and cost all of $5. It was perfect for those that were wishing to do a little holiday shopping together but without the kids.

This is a GREAT idea! I'm filing it away for my own DD's HS swim team.

 

[rdsx28]

WOW! All excellent ideas. Thank you and keep them coming. I appreciate the help

 

[kymom99]

My son's 8th grade class did a day trip last year. They sold Market Day all year long, and ended up with enough money to pay for every child's trip, and each child got $80 back! Ther were only 60+ kids in the class, so we aren't talking a huge number of kids selling, but the families of the school really support the sale. Each 8th grader was assigned a month to work to distribute the items sold. I didn't even buy that much myself. we had 2 moms who coordinated the whole thing. People can order and pay online and they sent emails and paper order forms home each month. Totally successful and profitable.

 

[verleniahall]

In HS, we did somethign called a Super Savers Card. We went to different businesses and they woudl give a discount or a freebie on differnt days dring the week. They were good for X amount of time. We did them quarterly and you could either pre-pay for the full year and get them all at once or buy the current one, or however the person want4ed to do it.

We also ran concessions at the games.

also most of your home businesses do fundraisers as well, just a thought; good luck!

 

[writersblock42]

For schools, subs do really well. The teachers always will buy a sub because it means not having to pack lunch that day. Plus it is something that people eat. We have a place that sells them to us for $2.20 and then we can price them at whatever we want. Generally an acceptable amount is $4.50 to $5.00. That has us earning a couple of bucks per sandwich. Other successful fundraisers around here have been Wolfgang Candy and basket Bingos. The subs and Wolfgang candy are super super easy and make decent money. The basket bingos can bring in a lot of money but are a lot of work because you have to have a place to have it, you have to get basket donations from people, get the bingo cards ready, have a bingo game, schedule a bingo caller, prepare food and drinks for the night and sell the tickets. But again you can make serious money. Basically, what they normally do is have about 20 baskets or so and about 15 games. They charge about $10 advanced and $12 at the door. You have it in a space that can hold a couple of 100 people. So already if you sell out then you are making $2,000. Then you have a few special games that are $2 or $5 and you can usually collect another $500-$1,000 that way. Then you usually make another couple of 100 on drinks and snacks. I have heard of people making several thousand off of a really successful bingo.

 

[beck02]

We also ran concessions at the games.

This has been a long time, but when I was growing up my mother would sell balloons for the band as a fundraiser at the at-home games. The concession stands were already going to the football teams so that wasn't an option. You can rent a helium tank, and get either the regular balloons or the fancier ones (the ones that can last 2 weeks). I'd help her blow them up as people picked out their designs. 1 helium tank could make a lot of balloons! Another thing was a button maker--fairly inexpensive, and they'd create whatever logo/sayings & sell those for a modest amout. The best thing about either of these was you could store the leftover materials fairly easy, and they'd appeal to a different crowd of people.

I've no personal experience with it, but cafe press might be another option, for making t-shirts & the like, with the profits going towards your school.

 

[lovin'fl]

Unfortunately I know a bit about fundraising...sigh. Applebees does a great fundraiser...flapjack breakfast. You sell tickets for about $8 for all you can eat pancakes and sausage that their cook makes. The kids can serve and bus the tables...parents seat folks and work in the kitchen to plate the food and pour the drinks (also all you can drink). Applebees takes like $3 per customer (to cover the food but thew cook and the facility is a community service donation...gotta love Applebees). You can do a 50/50 raffle there too. It will be on a Sat or Sun morning. Only specific Applebees does it. We usually make several hundred to a thousand dollars. It is really easy.

Also, you can do a silent auction. That's always a big hit. Have kids' families donate items to auction and see if you can set it up in the school cafeteria/gym or something. Maybe try to do it on a night that folks are in the school for some reason (our ES did it with a spaghetti dinner...dinner in the cafeteria and silent auction in the media center).

If you want to do something big, you can do a bingo. My girls' softball team does Coach purse bingos and they are a big hit, but a lot of work and does cost some money to put on (though you make that back plus a HUGE profit...like $4000-6000).

 

[LMN]

For schools, subs do really well. The teachers always will buy a sub because it means not having to pack lunch that day. Plus it is something that people eat. We have a place that sells them to us for $2.20 and then we can price them at whatever we want. Generally an acceptable amount is $4.50 to $5.00. That has us earning a couple of bucks per sandwich. Other successful fundraisers around here have been Wolfgang Candy and basket Bingos. The subs and Wolfgang candy are super super easy and make decent money. The basket bingos can bring in a lot of money but are a lot of work because you have to have a place to have it, you have to get basket donations from people, get the bingo cards ready, have a bingo game, schedule a bingo caller, prepare food and drinks for the night and sell the tickets. But again you can make serious money. Basically, what they normally do is have about 20 baskets or so and about 15 games. They charge about $10 advanced and $12 at the door. You have it in a space that can hold a couple of 100 people. So already if you sell out then you are making $2,000. Then you have a few special games that are $2 or $5 and you can usually collect another $500-$1,000 that way. Then you usually make another couple of 100 on drinks and snacks. I have heard of people making several thousand off of a really successful bingo.

Just a word of caution regarding bingo...be sure to check out your state's gambling laws. We looked into holding a bingo night for my daughter's cheer team (to raise funds for nationals at Disney World) and were told in Texas it is considered gambling and is against the law without the proper permit.

 

[bigbabyblues]

Our school seniors do a sub sandwich sale.

 

[clh2]

some chain restaurants, as well as some local ones (in our area) will often host "fundraiser nights. As far as the chains - Noodles, Panda Express and Qdoba will host nights where your group will get a percentage of sales for the evening. I'm sure there are others - but those are the ones in my area that offer this.

 

[bellebud]

with fall coming, can they rake peoples yards?