School Carnival

Planning a School Carnival

School Carnival Money Making Guide

Did you know that many schools regularly leave hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on the table each time they hold a carnival?



Did you know that from the minute a family walks into your school carnival, everything they see and experience must be tweaked to maximize profit? Are you doing this?

If you want to make sure you're doing everything you can to make as much money as possible for your school, you must be armed with knowledge. Knowledge you can get in the

School Carnival Money Making Guide

• The philosophy behind holding a school carnival
• Planning
• Marketing
• How to monetize the event
• Volunteers
• Prizes
• Games & Activities

Each chapter is written from a perspective of “How to Make Money”...

You'll find incredibly useful information

• 34 excellent ideas for basket auctions
• Instructions on how to run a gourmet dessert auction and a hilarious fishing vest auction.
• A frank discussion on the earning power of picking the right theme for your carnival.
• A not-so-obvious debate on the value of holding a raffle at your carnival.
• 38 pages of midway game and participant activity suggestions
• An advanced money-making strategy from our friends at VolunteerSpot.com, which will definitely ramp up your bottom line by thousands of dollars, if done right.
• A handful of “rationale statements” that you can copy/edit/paste into your own communication with parents that make the case for why you need them to actively participate in the carnival.
• An exposition on the extraordinary power of “school spirit” and how there is a direct correlation from the amount of school spirit you, as a school, possess and the amount of money you are able to raise.
• A seven page marketing timeline that starts 8 months before the carnival is to be held and runs right up to just a few days before the event. This timeline will tell you exactly when you should be accomplishing each promotional and advertising task.
• Several specific recommendations on how to use social networking to increase your carnival attendance.
• An in-depth discussion on how to price your admission tickets and passes. Jim actually tells you how he would do it, right down to the nitty-gritty policies he would enforce.
• And much, much more- remember this book is 186 pages long! There’s gotta be some really good stuff in there!

A Highly-Detailed Planning Process is Outlined

1. What are your priorities, in order of importance, for this carnival?
2. Should you use a theme?
3. When will you hold your carnival?
4. Where will you hold it?
5. Do you have a large enough volunteer pool to pull from?
6. Do you have the support of the school's administration and staff/faculty?
7. Should you hire a carnival company to run your event or should you do it yourself?
8. Should you buy games from a supplier, or should you ask volunteers to build the games?
9. Should you have a combination carnival with another school to cut down on expenses?
10. Should you serve beer and wine for adults?
11. Should you also consider raising money for other causes at your carnival?

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