Group Fundraiser
Group Fundraiser
What are some of your fundraiser ideas for a church youth group?
I need some ideas on youth fundraisers for out church!! Thanks!!
When I grew up through Youth Group, we did many different things as fund raisers.
Pancake breakfasts
Car washes
Dinner Theatre – dinner while seeing a show – faith based
Carnation Corsages for Mother’s Day – gather carnations, greens and straight pins and/or elastic and create corsages for mothers day. You set the price.
Sub sandwiches – take orders over a few weeks time and then the kids make sub sandwiches according to order. Make an order sheet up so there are specified meats, cheeses, etc. available for order by parishioners.
Crock Pot cook off – each child in the youth group as well as others in the congregation provides a crock pot of a delicious meal – Meal charge $5.00 or so. You decide how much to charge to come for a “pot luck” dinner. The extras and beverages are served by the youth group. Also have a bag by each crock pot where each person is given a ticket upon entrance. Then they get to decide which crock pot was best and they place the ticket into that bag after eating. Have a prize for the winner.
Bake sales – cakes, cookies, pies, etc.
Sell your wares auction (kids provide services like cleaning a home, babysitting, etc. and parishoners bid on the services)
Cookbooks created with recipes that your youth group kids love.
Chocolate fund raiser – get molds and chocolates and lollipop sticks and create candies and sell them.
Christmas wreath making / sale – gather wreath making supplies, have the youth group take orders, and they make and sell the wreaths.
Banana Split Social – An afternoon event for the whole family. Youth group kids walk around and take orders from tables and come back with special ordered banana splits. Give choice of ice cream and toppings.
Birthday Calendars – For several Sundays, have youth available the as congregation leaves. Youth write the members’ names or anniversary on the appropriate date on a calendar. Use the church directory so no one is left out. Then have youth help w/Print Shop or American Greetings Spiritual Greetings, etc., and make a 12 month calendar with all the names on the appropriate dates. Add personal testimonies, pictures of Sunday School classes, church info (service times, mission statement, how to be saved, so on) to each month. The more personal, the more they sell. We print them out and copy and assemble them with hole punch/string binding and a heavy bond front and back. Then sell the calendars for $10. Everybody will want one as a keepsake as well as a birthday reminder.
Hope that these ideas can help you.
God Bless
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