Kindy Fundraising ideas?

[Lucy]

Hi all,

For those who have already gone through the Kindy Fundraising stage, in your experience, which ones worked best?

Which were easiest to organise?

Which ones generated the best profits?

Niliac.....I am sure you have a wealth of advice with this one....I know that you were involved with it all last year?

TIA!

[mrsmac]

We did the draw on a plate one and it was pretty good. I think there are so many around these days people sell less just cause they are inundated with them! The chocolate ones still seem to bring in the most cash.

[Mother Goose]

I second the choc (or natural confectionary) ones. A girl at work just brought some in for her kids child care (a BIG box) and it all sold out within 2 days!!!!

MG

[Rouge]

Draw on a plate, Tea Towels, Cookie Dough Buckets, Chocolates are good but we have found due to the fact that a lot of the mum's have kids at school/brownies/tennis they all seem to do it and it can be a right PITA when you have 10 boxes. I'm lucky as Marc works in an office with hungry people who love choc but not everyone is in the same position. The latest fundraiser they did at our Kinder was Sweatshirts and Polo's with the pre-school logo on it, went like hotcakes and a lot of the kids love them so much they wear them to kinder. Another goodie is the label places like stick it on, because kinder kids will eventually be looking at labelling for school its good because it can be advertised as in advance. Cleanskin wine also went well, fashion nights, parenting experts who donate their time and parents all buy tickets with proceeds going to the kinder. There's also a portrait place that do portraits giving some proceeds to Kinders. Will think more as I know there is heaps more.

[Shellbelle]

So far we have done -
choccies,
draw on plate,
numerous raffles (mothers day etc),
nutrimetics,
movie night (kids movie played at kindy and sold sausages, popcorn, drinks, glow sticks etc),
art show (kids paint paintings and displayed like art gallery for sale!!),
obstacle-a-thon (kids sponsered to do laps of obstacle course),
bunnings BBQ

Gosh will be back when I think of more!!!

[christy]

Matilda's kindy has had toy drives.... where you buy your Christmas toys and the centre gets to choose toys from there.

Also... a sausage drive!! They had a local butcher sell sausages & the centre got $1 per kilo, they were healthy sausages, 90% fat free, no preservatives, no dairy and no gluten.... We bought 4 kgs for the freezer...