Quick-Cheap-EZ fundraising idea
Beth Guth (bethguth@ENTER.NET)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:52:04 -0500
Tonight we had our annual cake auction. We are a small pack but I
increased attendance by offering those coveted glow-in-the-dark pony
beads-one for each person a boy brought to the auction.
We made $346 dollars. My silly pool table cake went for $37 dollars. I
stole the idea from the Internet too. A wonderful cub pack web site!
BUT the EZ fundraising part was the $54 I made by auctioning 3 aluminum pie
tins. No takers at first.
So I filled them with whipped cream. Still not much interest.
Then I called over the webelos Den leader and put a garbage bag (with a
hole in it) over the top of his head.
THE CROWD WENT WILD! Boys screaming, jumping, mobbing me...I had to stop
and make eye contact with some of the parents to make sure these bids were
ok with them.
His pie in the face went for $19. The cubmaster went for $20 and the wolf
den leader went for $15. Me, I thought up the idea and nobody figured out
I didn't get a pie in the face until it was over (tee hee).
NOTE: some boys really put some velocity on the pie tin. One small wolf
cub sent whipped cream 10 feet back and all over church property. And
silly us, we were worried about the carpet. Think horizontal, not vertical.
This was really, really fun!
*****I wonder if you could give kids points for good behavior and then
allow them to buy things or bid at auction. Silly things like
glow-in-the-dark lace (or do you say gimp?) or BB's (why do little boys
like bb's, what do they do with them?) or riding "shotgun" on the next
field trip. Just a thought.
Beth Guth, soon-to-be cubmaster, tiger cub coach
Vice-Chair Membership North Valley District
Minsi Trails Council, Eastern Pennsylvania
bethguth@realtyexecs.com
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