I'm new to being the president of the pto. I got a lot of ideas from boxtops4education website.
I've started the first challange for making a room vs. room contest for creating collection boxes. Judging is based on neatness and creativity. I choose this because boxtops wants to charge for a custom made from them.
Our school has four box tops challenges a year. The first one runs from Mid-September to January and its called Box Tops Football challenge. Each students gets a playing card that looks like a football field. They tape box tops (tape to the back only) or glue stick them to the playing cards to earn touch downs. The classroom that collects the most box tops (touchdowns) wins a jeans day and the top collector a prize. The second is Boys vs. Girls. 25 box tops earns a block in the tower. The team the collects the most box tops wins. The first year the boys won! We have a great race challenge and use teachers faces on cut out sneakers and run a track around the cafeteria. In this challenge each team (grade level) has to collect x number of box tops. The teams that reach their goal win a jeans day and the team that collects the most is rewarded an ice cream social. Final collection is the Summer Bag collection. We also run a year round contest from June - May called Box Tops Acrosss the USA. We ask students to contact grandma, Uncle Joe, or Aunt Besty that lives out of town and send Box Tops directly to our school with a note saying which student they are sending them in for. Two years ago someone sent us Box Tops from Hawaii and this past year we got some from a marine in Iraq. The students who get someone to send them in from the fartherest location wins a special prize. We take the top three. This helps our label program and the kids get excited to see where the labels are coming from. Our teachers and kids love these collections and have a blast. We have doubled our collection! We earned over $2,300 last year! Good luck!
We are a pre-k through grade 2 school. Our class sizes vary so it would be hard to have classroom competitions. We want to be fair and have an "all school" reward for collecting boxtops and to get away from any "hurt feelings" if so and so got something and they didn't. Any suggestions? Ice cream treats one day? Maybe pass a prize bucket around the classroom and the kids have to pick out something (like pick one classroom per month???) Our enrollment is about 500 kids. Any tips?? I'm open to suggestions [img]smile.gif[/img]
Our school has two big collections one in October and February so they go out before the cutoff date.
We send out a big flyer annoucing to send them in. This year our theme is BOX TOPS for BOOKS!! For each grade level the students in the winning class will receive a Scholastic book voucher for $1.95 And they will get one of the box tops book marks. We're a k-2 school. On the back of the flyer I have the box tops flyer listing the products or about the Market place. So they can keep it to save.
This year I am also having a raffle to win $25.00 in Box Tops products at Parents Night. At the booth I am going to have the flyers about box tops and the charge card info you can get them all from the box tops website.
Maybe you could offer to Help the other girl and it will light a fire under her butt. She might be just a little burnt out if she has been doing it awhile or she wasnt aware of the info available out there.
Good Luck
Cindy
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I am the Box Top coordinator for a middle school. I give a prize to the student that brings in the most Box tops. At the beginning of each school year, I send home a letter and brochure that tells what the Box Top program has done for our school.
Two weeks before the Box Top due date, teachers announce the due date and tell them the prize is located in the building office.
It's a friendly competition and it gets a lot of box tops turned in.
Our prizes have been movie tickets, basketballs, free bowling, etc.
Our school has four box tops challenges a year. The first one runs from Mid-September to January and its called Box Tops Football challenge. Each students gets a playing card that looks like a football field. They tape box tops (tape to the back only) or glue stick them to the playing cards to earn touch downs. The classroom that collects the most box tops (touchdowns) wins a jeans day and the top collector a prize. The second is Boys vs. Girls. 25 box tops earns a block in the tower. The team the collects the most box tops wins. The first year the boys won! We have a great race challenge and use teachers faces on cut out sneakers and run a track around the cafeteria. In this challenge each team (grade level) has to collect x number of box tops. The teams that reach their goal win a jeans day and the team that collects the most is rewarded an ice cream social. Final collection is the Summer Bag collection. We also run a year round contest from June - May called Box Tops Acrosss the USA. We ask students to contact grandma, Uncle Joe, or Aunt Besty that lives out of town and send Box Tops directly to our school with a note saying which student they are sending them in for. Two years ago someone sent us Box Tops from Hawaii and this past year we got some from a marine in Iraq. The students who get someone to send them in from the fartherest location wins a special prize. We take the top three. This helps our label program and the kids get excited to see where the labels are coming from. Our teachers and kids love these collections and have a blast. We have doubled our collection! We earned over $2,300 last year! Good luck! 