How to Get Children Involved in Your Fundraiser

Many fundraisers require you to get the children participating in the activity involved. From baseball teams to school fundraisers, the children are likely on the front lines for your fundraiser.

If you don’t do something to help get the kids involved, your fundraiser may become a flop in a hurry. Here are a few tips to help get children involved in your fundraiser.

4 Tips to Help Get Kids Involved in Your Fundraiser

1. Choose the Right Fundraiser

When a child can get behind the fundraiser, they will be more willing to help. For example, if you design a custom car magnet to spread awareness about childhood cancer, and then you visit a cancer patient, they can make the connection easier.

Children will be more likely to help with the fundraising efforts if they understand why you’re raising funds. Sometimes, if they see the reason for the fundraiser and they engage in someone impacted by the disease, they are more likely to get involved.

2. Make it Visual

Maybe you’re raising funds for an upcoming field trip. When you design a custom car magnet and start selling it, your children need to know why.

Pictures of the place you will be going to may help them want to get involved. If they can see the end result or the reward, they are more likely to want to sell the magnets to help raise money for the field trip.

3. Make it Fun

Finding a way to make the fundraiser fun for kids will help get them involved. Children will want to help with your fundraiser if they think it’s fun or entertaining.

When you decide to sell custom magnets as your fundraiser, get the kids involved in the design process. Turn it into their own little business and they can play pretend as little CEOs to make the fundraiser fun.

4. Offer Incentives

Kids will go nuts over the right incentives. Do you remember when you had to sell something for school and the top prize was a new bike? Didn’t you want to sell as much as possible to win the bike?

Offering the right incentives can help your children want to be involved in the fundraiser. Prizes for different sales levels with multiple choices offer motivation for children to reach specific goals.

Teaching children how to become involved in a fundraiser is a great lesson. When parents just do the work for them and the child reaps the rewards, it’s not sending the right message. Getting them involved may not be easy, but it’s necessary.

When you choose to sell custom car magnets to raise funds for any reason, get your children involved in the process. If they feel like they had a say in the design, it becomes their own little business.

If you’re raising awareness, make it personal by visiting the cause you’re spreading awareness for. You can also offer incentives or show your kids what they will get if they participate.

Kids won’t just blindly help you with a fundraiser. However, you can get children involved in your fundraiser by using these four tips. When children are involved, fundraisers are more successful and the kids learn valuable lessons.

How To Use School Magnets for Cars as a Fundraiser

School magnets are great for raising funds. Parents love them, students will buy them, and even other supporters will enjoy showing off their pride for your school with a school car magnet.

When you decide you want to start a fundraiser for your school, it can be difficult to choose what to sell. From popcorn to candy to pizza to school car magnets, there are so many choices. Instead of selling something consumable, why not sell something people can show off with pride?

What are Custom School Car Magnets?

School magnets are designed to represent your school. Whether it’s the football team, volleyball team, baseball team, or the entire school, these magnets can be designed to represent any group you want.

You can even have a school car magnet designed to spread awareness about a disease or cause. Instead of having the entire magnet represent the school, it can be a popular Hashtag for a cause. Then, you can add small wording stating the magnet was designed to spread awareness by your school.

Custom Design Makes it Fun

When it comes to using school car magnets for fundraising, the fun custom designs make it worth it. You can have magnets made in the shape of a football, baseball, basketball, or any other shape you prefer. You can even have different types of magnets designed for each group to sell within your school.

Along with a custom shape, you can customize the actual design of the magnet. There are several ways you can go about designing a custom school magnet for a fundraiser. At Arc Marketing, we will help you choose the right custom design to best represent your school or cause.

An Incredible PTO/PTA Fundraiser

When the PTO or PTA of your school needs to run a fundraiser, school car magnets just make sense. What parent wouldn’t want a beautiful car magnet representing the school their children attend? Most parents will buy one for each car they own and maybe one for the fridge.

How the School Magnet Fundraising Process Works

It starts with a simple virtual magnet designed specifically for you. Once you’ve seen the virtual design and you’ve approved, we will go to work creating your magnets. Of course, if you need any changes made, our art department will work closely to help you get the perfect design.

Your magnets will be delivered fast and you will have the ability to start your fundraising efforts within two weeks of contacting Arc Marketing. We know raising funds is vital to your success and we work fast to get you the right school magnets for your fundraiser.

If you’re sick of trying to sell perishable goods people have to wait for, custom car magnets offer a better alternative. You won’t have to worry about storing candy safely or taking orders, and then fulfilling them. Instead, just collect cash and hand out school car magnets for parents, students, and other supporters to show off their pride.

School car magnets are popular

School car magnets, in collaboration with PTAs and PTOs, have become a significant category in sales. They’re not limited to schools, though. Youth sports like Little League Baseball, football, and soccer also embrace them. Their popularity is undeniable, making them a top choice for fundraising committees. Fundraising car magnets are perfect for raising money for almost any group.

Why Choose Custom Car Magnets for Fundraising

If you’re part of a fundraising team, you’ve likely realized the potential of custom car magnets. Compared to other merchandise fundraisers, they’re simpler and more profitable. Many schools and youth teams sell these magnets for $10 each without encountering resistance. This pricing strategy succeeds because parents see the $10 as a contribution to their children’s education or sports activities. In essence, they’re donating $10 and receiving a magnet as a token of appreciation.

Financial Benefits: A Closer Look

Even the smallest groups can achieve significant profits. Selling just 50 magnets at $10 each yields nearly $300 profit after expenses. Our six-month average shows most orders range from 300 to 1,000 magnets. This volume indicates a healthy profit, even if sales span a full year. Remember, unlike perishable items like oversized chocolate bars, our magnets don’t expire. Ordering 500 magnets could net you over $4,000.

Beyond Profits: Supporting Your Kids

There’s more to these magnets than just fundraising. Consider the perspective of your children. Imagine your child plays for a local youth soccer team named “Thunder.” Suppose you choose ARC Marketing for your magnet design. Our experience ensures your magnet looks as professional as those from major sports leagues.

Placing a Thunder magnet on your car does wonders for your child’s morale. It boosts their pride in the sport and validates the hours of practice and travel. It’s about making your children feel esteemed and connected to their team.

The Parent’s Role: Enhancing Children’s Self-Esteem

Ultimately, as parents, our goal is to uplift our children. These magnets do just that. They are a visible sign of support and pride in our children’s endeavors. By choosing a custom-designed car magnet, you’re not just aiding a fundraising effort; you’re elevating your child’s sports experience.

Take Action for Your Team or School

Ready to boost morale and raise funds? Contact us to design a magnet for your team or school. Reach out at 760-743-6340 or visit our website at www.arcmktg.com. Let’s create something that makes your kids feel like champions and supports their dreams.

Top of Form

Wow! We’re almost to the end of another year, and hopefully this has been a successful fundraising year for your PTA or PTO.

PTA’s and PTO’s exist to create a bridge between parents and their schools, but one of your most important jobs is FUNDRAISING! That’s in capital letters for a reason… it’s IMPORTANT!

How many fundraisers do you conduct during the school year? I would be willing to bet that it’s more than 10.

You probably have a large annual event which might include dinner, entertainment and a silent auction. Planning and conducting events like this take a lot of time and a lot of help. You can raise a lot of money with these, but they are very labor intensive. PTO Today Magazine published a great article on Silent Auction fundraisers. You can read that article here.

You probably have a few other slightly less labor intensive (but lower revenue) fundraisers such as

• Car Washes
• Bake Sales
• Carnivals

These are going to eat up a lot of your time, and honestly won’t bring in much money. Most PTA/PTO’s conduct this type of fundraiser just one time before they learn! Just take the simple car wash for example. First, you need to convince a business, or someplace with a large paring lot, to let you hold your car wash on their property. That can be more difficult than you might think. Next you need to get all the supplies:

• A dozen buckets
• 3 or 4 hoses (at least 50 feet long each)
• Sponges
• Car Washing Detergent (yeah, it’s different. You can’t use Dawn.)
• Buckets
• Chamois, paper towels, drying rags
• 15 – 20 unlucky volunteers
• And more

Do all of that and you might make a hundred bucks.

Now we move on to the “sales & product” fundraisers. These are where you go out and sell merchandise. In the past, you would send out the 5^th graders to walk the neighborhood, knocking on doors and trying to sell merchandise.

• Huge Chocolate Bars
• Wrapping Paper
• Discount Cards

I think the days when you turn the 5^th graders into traveling salesmen are over. It’s a weird world out there in 2019 and most parents won’t let their kids participate.

But here’s another idea, and this product will practically sell itself. I’m talking about a customized car magnet. Along with your help, out talented art department will create an amazing looking magnet using your school name, your school magnet and in your school colors. Selling these are easy; no door-to-door sales. Just stand in the school parking lot during morning drop-off with a handful of your custom school magnets and sell them to the parents for $10 each. Sell 250 magnets and earn a profit of $2,000.

It’s easy. And we’ll make it even easier. We’ll do all of the design-work (for free, of course). We’ll print your magnets and ship them to your home or school. Then you just stand in the parking lot and make money.

Give us a call at 760-743-6340 for more info or visit our website at www.arcmktg.com