You could also paint rockers or wooden ardanack chairs and raffle them off--- if you have sets that look similiar, your could raffle them as a pair.

hazel0874
I would love to know more about the fall tailgate party! Our school just seems to skip over the fall and it is my favorite time of year! This sounds like so much fun. I know you posted this a long time ago, buy any info would be great!

HAHA,
more ideas for me to use for our non-halloween celebrating school district. Plus the garden stone and bench ideas will be great for our beautification projects (and might land my mugshot in the PTO magazine again)

Thanks ladies...

We have a k-4 school that does a class project every year for our fall tailgate party....we have each class make a scarecrow. The class decides what theme to dress their scarecrow in and the kids bring items from home pertaining to their theme. We designate one afternoon to having all of the kids dressing their scarecrows. We have had many interecting ones over the last few years....Elvis, a chef, a clown...the kids get a kick out of them. Then we auction them off by selling tickets 10 for $1 at our tailgate party. We made about $150.00 this year. We have the wood donated, and a few crafty volunteers paint faces on plywood and assemble them before the dressing day. We also get some bales of hay donated by our local farm to dstand them up in.

I think the set of stepping stones and cookie jar sound really cute. Another complicated project we did one year was these concrete benches that had ceramic tile tops. For example: the theme for 2nd grade might have been sunflowers so each child was given some stones and they created their own sunflower out of tile pieces. Then, all the tile pieces were put onto the top of the benches and grout was applied. They were really cute, but alot of work. EAch grade had a different theme.
SHC

I think stepping stones are a good idea. One project my son's class did was a cookie jar. It was unbelievable. The teacher purchased a plain white ceramic cookie jar. She cut a sponge into a circle shape and painted on a light brown circle onto the outside of the cookie jar. There was one circle for each child (the circle was about 2 inches across - but can be smaller depending on the size of the cookie jar and the number of kids). Once the circle dried...each child dipped their pinky finger in dark brown painted and added chocolate chips to their "cookie". After all that dried - the teacher wrote the child's name with a black sharpie around their cookie. It was so cute. It made a ton of money. I made one of these for my mother-in-law for Mother's Day one year with just my two son's fingerprints. It holds cookies to this day.