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Fundraiser/Volunteering Ideas for High School Art Club...?

• we don't want to just sell candy bars or fruit snacks as a fundraiser because we are a specialized club for art, not just a regular community service club. does anyone have ideas that we could come up with that would involve not much labor, artistic talent, and easily profitable in a high school? also, any volunteering ideas too, if you have any? i tried soup kitchens and maybe some animal shelters, but i would like other ideas! thanks :)

• Answer:

  Sell roses for Valentine's Day, shamrocks for St. Patricks, carnations for Easter (take orders for delivery on "the day"). Sell local art-related businesses on the idea of a discount card. Galleries, framing studios, supply shops, crafts stores, and so on pay you a nominal amount to be listed on a discount card which you then sell to others for $5 or $10 each. It's the same idea as the Babe Ruth League selling discount cards for fast-food cafes, only the subject matter is art-related rather than fast food. If photography is part of the art program, take candid photos of your fellow students, upload them to a handheld device, and then offer to sell prints for $5 each to the people in the photos (or the friends of those people). An art-oriented bake sale. Bake plain pizza-size cookies (8" or 10" across) and provide decorative frostings, sprinkles, add-ons such as M&Ms, and that sort of thing. Sell the cookie plus whatever is required for the purchaser to "personalize" the cookie, artistically, of course. Or plain cupcakes with access to decorative add-ons. Have a contest for the "best decorated cookie or cupcake," "most original cookie or cupcake," "most mouth-watering cookie or cupcake."