School Fundraising Ideas for Christmas
The best school fundraising ideas are those that provide something useful to would-be supporters. This is especially true or fundraisers during the Christmas season, as the holidays leave many people busier than ever. Buying and wrapping Christmas gifts, preparing for out-of-town guests, cooking and baking special holiday meals and treats are all things that demand extra time. School fundraising ideas that can help busy families with some of these time-consuming tasks will be popular.
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Babysitting Services
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Students who are old enough can be paired with families who need babysitting services during the holidays. Such a school fundraiser can be conducted in two ways: the students can go directly to the homes of families who need sitters, or the school can hold an open gym night and older students will be on hand to entertain children who need looking after.
Pricing for these babysitting services can be done by charging a flat, hourly rate that is consistent with the going rate for sitters in the area, or by simply asking for donations from the parents who hire the students to babysit.
Gift Wrapping
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Appealing to busy parents, students can sponsor a gift-wrapping night at the school. To stock the wrapping supplies, put a request out to parents that the students are in need of gift-wrapping materials. Parents can donate leftover wrapping materials from previous Christmases or purchase new supplies for the fundraiser.
Hold the gift wrapping fundraiser a week or two before Christmas. Assemble a team of Christmas elves (otherwise known as students and parents) to staff the gift wrapping station. Charge a flat rate per gift or request donations and leave it up to the "customers" to decide how much the gift wrapping services are worth.
Gift Baskets
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Many people like to keep extra gifts on hand at Christmas time for unexpected guests and to use as hostess gifts when visiting. Students can prepare gift baskets and offer them for sale. Gift baskets can be created in different price ranges and can be designed separately for men, women and children.
Dog and Cat Gifts
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For a different twist on traditional Christmas fundraisers, students can bake treats for dogs and cats. The treats can be wrapped and slipped into miniature Christmas stockings and then offered for sale.
Christmas Cards
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Students can create Christmas-themed artwork that can be transferred to card stock (by way of a local printer) to become Christmas cards. Sold singularly or by the dozen, these cards can be offered for sale as an alternative to store-purchased Christmas cards.
Christmas Light Help
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For many people, hanging Christmas lights is a dreaded chore. Students can charge a small fee and offer themselves "for hire" to help others hang their Christmas lights. For an additional fee, they can also agree to come back and help remove the Christmas lights once the holiday has passed.
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Teach children how to build a hamburger collage using construction paper. This is a fun and easy project for an art class, home school or just an afternoon craft. Allow the children to design their favorite condiments and toppings for their hamburger
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After Easter time, all parents with young kids end up with a ton of hard-boiled, colored Easter eggs. While youre making an enormous egg salad with the eggs, have your children save the colored shells and use them for an eggshell mosaic. This is a be
