How Ingenious Are You? Creative Minds Needed!

[justjulie]

My friend's son has a class project in which he has been given $5. He must turn this $5 into $10 via some type of fundraising endeavour. Five dollars is all he has to spend on supplies, advertising, etc. and his efforts must gain him a fundraising total of $10. He cannot promote his "product" in school, it must be solicited to family and friends.

Any ideas?

 

[clarabelle]

These aren't very creative but...
Buying some car soap and washing a car
Having a bake sale

 

[Disney_1derland]

That's a toughy! Wonder if he could buy a box of microwave popcorn and some of the white almond bark and make the covered popcorn we've all been raving about on the quick holiday recipe thread and then sell it in baggies for $1 each?

It's really easy to make, you just pop the popcorn like normal, pick out the unpopped kernels, melt the white stuff, mix it into the popcorn and spread it onto a baking sheet covered in wax paper then break it into chunks and bag it up. Believe me, it's worth $1!!!

 

[FergieTCat]

I propose a 50/50 raffle.

Make a sheet of raffle tickets on your computer. If he had to reimburse you for the cost of the tickets -- it would be the price of a piece of paper plus ink. Make copies of these tickets at a copy shop. The cost is however much copies are.

You sell the tickets to friends and family for $1 a ticket. 1/2 of the proceeds raised goes to the raffle and 1/2 is for the prize. Let's say he sells 20 tickets. $10 is for the charity, and $10 is for the prize. Who ever wins the raffle, wins $10.

We've done this on a much larger scale and it worked pretty well.

 

[lillygator]

how about a small cookbook? something you can just print out on comp paper and bind with ribbon or something?

 

[lillygator]

if he would have to show costs for printer ink I am not sure about the cookbooks, but how about coupons handmade on construction paper for chores? I am sure family members would buy them!!

 

[justjulie]

I knew I could count on my fellow DISers. I thought he could somehow tie it into Valentine's Day and sell something to his siblings - then again who wants to give a Valentine to your own sister or brother - hence the reason I turned to my more creative friends - keep those ideas coming!

 

[mickeyboat]

How about offering to clean the siblings' rooms for a fee. He could buy cleaning supplies and get to work.

Denae

 

[CathrynRose]

I knew I could count on my fellow DISers. I thought he could somehow tie it into Valentine's Day and sell something to his siblings - then again who wants to give a Valentine to your own sister or brother - hence the reason I turned to my more creative friends - keep those ideas coming!

if you did the almond bark/popcorn thing, as someone suggested, red food coloring could be added for a Valentines theme.