OT--Budget Fun Frolic prizes

[Lovin' Disney]

Hey everyone,

We are in charge of prizes for our elementary school's Halloween Fun Frolic. Does anyone have any ideas for cheap, but fun, prizes besides candy? I have looked in the oriental trading catalog and have some ideas, but I was hoping to figure out something I could buy locally instead.

What do kids like? Each game costs a quarter, so we don't want to go over that amount per prize.

Any suggestions would be mucho appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Floridagal23]

McDonald's sells the halloween booklets of coupons usually for $1 each. Each booklet comes with maybe around 10-12 coupons in it for a free hamburger, free ice cream, free fries, etc. You can get a couple of booklets and give out one or two coupons per prize, maybe? We get them for the trick or treaters around here.

 

[VanessasMom]

Walgreen's has halloween pencils 10/$1. Tatoos also go over very good and they are super cheap.

 

[MommaSnowwhite]

How about little tiny gourds that look like pumpkins? My DDs love them because they can use markers to decorate them easily.

 

[ktkerber]

McDonald's sells the halloween booklets of coupons usually for $1 each. Each booklet comes with maybe around 10-12 coupons in it for a free hamburger, free ice cream, free fries, etc. You can get a couple of booklets and give out one or two coupons per prize, maybe? We get them for the trick or treaters around here.

I was going to suggest the same thing. Kids love McD's. Wendy's usually has those coupon books also except they are for a child size Frosty.

 

[Lovin' Disney]

Thanks, I will check out McD's for coupons. We don't have a Wendy's within 2 hours of us. We have a ton of pencils and erasers and are considering tattoos. Any other ideas?

 

[luvsgrumpy]

I've never been in charge of purchasing the prizes, but we just had a Back to School fair and had candies (tootsie rolls, sweet tarts, etc), pencil erasers, little foam type airplanes (the ones you put together and last 5 minutes -haha), tatoos, plastic rings, pencil grips, and maybe a couple I can't think of. I do know we usually use Oriental Trading co. Their prices are good and it's convenient for us. We also charge .25/game and try to keep it very low cost. Actually this year we had left overs from previous years so we sort of cleaned out the closet if you will.

 

[Pixie Dusted]

How about friendship bracelets, beaded necklaces, glow sticks or bracelets, mini bubbles and mini play doh? Many of these things can be found in multipacks at Dollar Tree.

 

[Crystal0608]

Check out your stores for 75%/90% school supply & summer clearances for novelty pencils, pens, & erasers.
Also:
Mini bubbles
Glow-stick
Plastic Spider
Stickers
Play money
Mini Playdough
Stamps
Notepads
Slime
Vampire teeth