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    Thinking caps on: school fair

    Right, I've been put on the PTA, and first task is organising the school Xmas fair.

    I need ideas for "activity" stalls, esp for the older children (age 9/10) (sales and cakes etc are done).

    I've thought of:

    - print your own design on a bag (£2 a go, bags are 60p ea)
    - buy a seed pack for 50p and fill it with Two_Sheds bean seeds
    - make a birdfeeder (monkeys nuts on a string) 20p a go
    - knit a scarf (pay 10p for a minute's knitting/crochet, adding rows onto what I've done already). The finished scarf will be worn by the Head for a week
    - nail bar 10p a nail for a Xmas sticker & topcoat


    any more ideas, you PTA-ers?
    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.
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    decorating plain cakes or biscuits
    make a xmassy table decoration
    decorate salt dough tree decorations
    colouring competition - a christmassy picture
    Imagination is everything, it is a preview of what is to become.

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    • #3
      Why dont you ask the older children ( year 6 ) what games they would like to run, its what we used to do, but in the summer. They are in control of the game / activity, you have to watch them with the money side but on the whole they enjoy it.
      Too late for this year and you might already do it, is design a christmas card and the winner from each year have theirs printed and sold to parents in packs.
      Also the kids used to make decorations to be hung up in the school hall for a couple of weeks and prizes for the best in each year, including an adult section.
      Gardening ..... begins with daybreak
      and ends with backache

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        Water in a bowl, children dunk faces then retrieve chocolate pieces from bowl of flour. Messy but year 6 boys love it"
        WPC F Hobbit, Shire police

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        • #5
          Originally posted by FionaH View Post
          Water in a bowl, children dunk faces then retrieve chocolate pieces from bowl of flour. Messy but year 6 boys love it"
          OMG flashback .......party game when I was a kid, you made like a sandcastle out of flour and put a ring on top , everyone took turns cutting a piece away until the ring fell in . Then the last one to cut the flour had to pick up the ring with their teeth, no hands.
          S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
          a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

          You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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          • #6
            How about putting stuff in covered pots , they put their hand in and have to guess what's in there.
            S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
            a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

            You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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            • #7
              A 'can you tell the difference?' stall

              blindfold sampling of say Cadbury's choc and Galaxy choc
              pepsi and coke
              Heinz beans and a well known value one
              2 different makes of jelly
              ^^^^ digestive biscuits
              ^^^^ cornflakes
              full fat milk, semi skimmed
              low fat marg, butter
              etc etc

              ( good one for parents!!! )
              Last edited by Nicos; 17-11-2010, 07:11 AM.
              "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

              Location....Normandy France

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              • #8
                Tombola with family size chocolate bars or selection box for the winners only tickets that end in no. 5 win, £1 per go makes a profit. especially if you can get the parents to donate the prizes.

                lucky dip- a big box filled with kinder type eggs with small toys inside(can buy 100 for around £12 from online suppliers) in two or three eggs put a raffle ticket for a special prize ( teddy,toy etc) that way every one is a winner....great for the smaller kids

                face painting

                nail bar

                beat the santa- three shots at taking penalties with santa suited volunteer in goals..

                having our PTA christmas fayre on 27th nov will update you as to what proves to be the most successful..

                if you can get each class to donate goodies then a parent gift room is a good idea where the kids can pay to enter and pick a present and have it wrapped for mum or dads christmas present.. room for kids only with no parents alllowed!
                May the road rise to meet you,
                May the wind be always at your back,
                May the sun shine warm upon your face,
                The rains fall soft upon your fields and,
                Until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand                .

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                • #9
                  wet sponges at the teachers

                  bottles on strings ........ you get loads of bottles like wine, bubble bath, bath salts, etc etc .... tie strings to them, then put all the strings over a pole, and make them into a bunch .... also add strings with nothing on, they then pull the string and sometimes they win sometimes they dont

                  guess the name of the teddy

                  guess the weight of the cake

                  guess how many sweeties in a jar

                  hook a duck

                  disco after the fair

                  sweetie stall with 10p mixes

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                  • #10
                    Thanks everyone, some really good ideas in there. I'll put them to the committee today
                    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                    • #11
                      Possibly a bit late but we have a civvies day and ask the children to bring in chocolate or toileteries,'Friends' then get the wonderful task of assembling it all into hampers which are raffled off at the Christmas Bring and Buy.
                      the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.

                      Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xx

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                      • #12
                        Thanks Di, we do that too.
                        We've just had "Victorian dress up day" and this Friday is "dress up all spotty" day.

                        Parents get a bit fed up with it, tbh.
                        All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                        • #13
                          Thats cos dress up days are a nightmare for Mums, especially if you work. Posh mums round here hire the kids outfits!
                          WPC F Hobbit, Shire police

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                          • #14
                            They don't mind the dressing up (although some don't have any imagination: if they can't buy the outfit in Asda, the kid doesn't get an outfit )

                            It's the 50p they have to pay for non-uniform days that they hate
                            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                            • #15
                              we must be posh then coz its £1 for non uniform day here!!!!
                              May the road rise to meet you,
                              May the wind be always at your back,
                              May the sun shine warm upon your face,
                              The rains fall soft upon your fields and,
                              Until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand                              .

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