Ideas for Enhancing Your School Engagement and Fundraising

One of our incredible technology facilitators at one of our VJ schools, Southern Lehigh Middle, mentioned some truly amazing things that her school does to help further fundraising efforts and increase awareness for their Alex's Lemonade Stand efforts all year long. Thought it'd be great to share these ideas with you all to inspire you and possibly get you thinking of other ways to enhance your lemonade stand activities across disciplines and other activities in your schools.

Ideas from Tara Walter, Southern Lehigh Middle School 

Art Teacher
-- Getting students to create back drop for our Stand
--Also, hoping to get her graphic art 8th grade students to submit entries for the poster contest

Family Consumer Science
--Making lemon themed baked goods to sell during lunches with lemonade at our stand for the 2 weeks between the kick off event and wrap up. (We will actually be continuing this for the remainder of the week after the wrap up leading to our field day)

Physical Education
-- Hosting the 1st Annual Alex's Lemonade Field Day with lemon/yellow themed events. Please see below.

STEM
-- Building the Stand. The stand will be the stand for the event, but also the new stand for our sales.

Builder's Club
-- This is our service club, which supports Alex's Lemonade in addition to other foundations, that has a stand all year long at the end of the day one day a week during an activity schedule. They sell lemonade by the glass to students and teachers for 25 cents a glass.

My period 5 DESIGN 21 
-- writing script, planning, etc., for the event

TECH 
-- Taking footage to capture all events and showcase to students and for upcoming years Get coverage from local newspaper, school newspaper, and local news station, which was done in the past. 

Below are the ideas we have come up with for the 1st Annual Alex's Lemonade field Day (still a work in progress)..

*Volleyball (yellow VB)
*Tug of War (purple side---yellow side)
*Bounce Out (yellow bouncing ball, putting yellow tape around the white tennis lines, yellow decorations like streamers all along the tennis nets)
*Scooter Race (paper lemons to stick on the wall at the end)
*Kickball (yellow ball)
*Yellow sponge pass (for a relay race....pass it back and the last person empties the water in a bucket.  Or if not with water, maybe something within a relay race with a sponge?)
* Yellow hula hoops relay
* Yellow balloons for a shaving cream (too messy?)
* Lemon hunt (like an easter egg hunt concept but with lemons instead)
* Lemon toss (part of a relay race?)
* Cut lemon in half and put food dye it apparently turns the whole lemon a color?) Other ideas Builder's Club kids had:
* May 20-24 we would sell various items at the stand that STEM and Art Teacher create: during HR and activity period, sell the shoelaces, pre-wrap, bandanas...on Alexs Lemonade website there were also tattoos and lemon bandz (like silly bandz) we could also sell along with baked goods
* Donation boxes in Homerooms for lemonade. We weren't sure about if Field Day works on points earned at the games or not. But we thought that if you did, there could be a donation box all week. The amount of money plus the points earned at Field Day would determine the top winners? (Might be logistically tough!)
* Taking a picture with all of the kids in their colors by the stand
* Having various yellow food items like pineapple, bananas, lemon head candies, yellow peeps, Rita's ice, lemon ice pops etc.