We have done this for the past 2 years. We do daily drawings, and each child is eligible turn in the first slip just for selling 1 item. Thereafter, they may turn in a slip for every 5 items sold. We have many low-income families in our school, so this way each child has a chance at getting a "good" prize. This year our fundraising company didn't give us prizes, so we handed out $5 bills, a school Hoodie, a CD/MP3 walkman, and right now I can't remember what else. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Also, we don't do a prize for the top seller. We figure that those children who sell lots of items will earn their prizes through the company. What we do instead is have a drawing for those children who turn their CORRECT money and orders in on a certain date. This year we offered a $50 Toys R Us gift card, and over half of our sales were turned in the first day.

Hey Scottmom!
Our catalog fundraising rep. encouraged us to try the same sort of thing this year. It did keep the kids enthusiastic! We had a drawing every morning. For every 3 items they sold, they got to turn in another raffle ticket. The company proveided the prizes. It didn't really help with profits. It did help on the day that the orders were to be turned in, we gave each student who remebered a fake tattoo. We had more turned in the first day than ever before!
Kelley
Madison PTO
Mount Vernon, WA

With our next fundraiser, in hopes that parents and students don't take it home and forget about it until it's due, the company we are working with suggested we run prize events partway through. For example, on day 7 any child that has sold 7 itmes gets to take part in picking a prize of some sort out of a jar. This reminds children and parents to keep selling and gets them motivated again halfway through. Of course, this was new to me, so I wondered is anyone else doing this or something like this to try to keep fundraisers fresh in their families minds.