When you pick fundraisers for kids, especially kids that are in kindergarten or preschool, your fundraiser has to be incredibly fun. It also needs to be profitable and easy to sell, but the fun factor has proven time and time again to greatly improve the effectiveness of school fundraisers for young children.
Smart parents though have started looking for fundraising options that are not only fun, profitable, and highly marketable, they have also started choosing school fundraising ideas that are educational. The reasoning goes that if you are going to spend the time to raise money and motivate the kids to help sell, you might as well teach them something as part of the process.
Obviously any fundraising effort can be viewed as educational. The marketing skills, organization of money, and distribution to customers is a valuable experience that is a microcosm of what many students end up facing in the real world.
But bigger than that, and more immediately impactful, some student fundraising options have popped up that give groups the opportunity to teach students skills and lessons they can use now. Some examples include green fundraising, recycling fundraisers, and healthy fundraisers.
Healthy fundraisers work to show kids that food can be delicious and healthy at the same time. Green fundraisers run the gamut from reusable shopping bag fundraisers to flower fundraisers that let groups sell flowers bulb, veggie gardens, and even trees. Recyclicing fundraisers like our Smencils are also fun and educational and can mean the group collects items that can then be recycled or sells items made of recycled materials.
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