Who doesn’t like peanut butter sandwiches? Not many people, that’s for sure! Have a fundraiser where kids or entire families make peanut butter sandwiches with all kinds of toppings.
Contact local grocery stores several weeks in advance of the event. Explain you’re having a fundraiser and tell them who will benefit from the proceeds. Ask if they will donate bread, peanut butter, jelly, honey, bananas, pickles, wheat germ, and anything else you can think of that will make great and strange peanut butter sandwiches.
Don’t forget to ask about donations of several different types of chips, lemonade, tea, and ice. Check with the dollar stores or a bigger chain store about donating paper plates and paper towels as well as plenty of sturdy plastic knives. Be sure to offer everyone lots of advertising in exchange for donations!
Make posters for display in family friendly locations. Don’t forget to list the businesses that are donating and their donations. Also, make posters for use at the event and list those who are donating. On all posters, be sure to note the intended use of the proceeds – and if you have brochures, you can hand them out at the event.
Find a park with lots of shade and picnic tables. Contact a church or community center and ask if you can use several tables and some folding chairs. Again, explain about the fundraiser, who benefits, and how they’ll use the proceeds.
When you’re setting things up the morning of the fundraiser, have one table for collecting the entry fees or donations. Have another set up with the snack foods and drinks. Put the rest of the picnic tables and folding tables in rows, with distribution areas for bread, plates and knives, and plenty of open assembly tables with condiments. Another area should be reserved for contest sandwiches. Ask local dignitaries to be judges.
You should be charging around $10 for each individual or $30 per family. Have different categories such as grossest sandwich, prettiest sandwich, and most creative open-faced sandwich. You get the idea. (Be sure to tell entrants the finalists have to eat at least half of their own sandwich!) (In addition, tell them as soon as the contest is over you’re serving lunch – their creations!)
This fundraiser is fun and you should find many entrants at your signup table! Everyone gets all the P B & J they can eat, along with chips and lemonade. You might want to have wet wipes handy for sticky fingers and faces!
