subject: Cookie Gift Oxes [print this page] Our youth group at church needs to lift cash for a visit that the members want to make. The trip is to attend a youth rally in the neighboring state. The journey will even include an in a single day keep at a big water park near the rally sight. We've already executed some fund raising; but we are attempting to come up with new ideas. Now we have already had a bake sale. This was a superb money maker, but we didn't know if another one in a short time would be properly received. One woman prompt that we make up cookie reward packing containers for the holidays.
This sounded like an interesting idea. The woman explained that the cookie reward boxes may embrace what ever number of cookies we'd choose and the bins might be as elaborate or easy as we needed to make them. Folks would purchase the cookie reward packing containers to provide as gifts or to set out for guests. We determined that we wished to do this. The youngsters had been excited because most of them get pleasure from making cookies. We had several weekends earlier than the holidays so we thought we'd begin with two completely different sizes of the cookie reward boxes. One dimension would feature an assortment of dozen cookies and the bigger measurement would have 4 dozen. We determined to have three kinds of cookies. We selected spritz, as a result of a number of group members had the cookie presses and they are straightforward and inexpensive to make. Filbert balls because they give the impression of being nice with out having to decorate and the normal reduce out cookies. The youngsters needed the reduce out cookies so they might have a frosting party within the fellowship area. We need to keep the fund raising actions enjoyable so we agreed to the frosting party.
For the bins we went to a local cake and sweet provide store. They've a variety of containers. We purchased a number of decorative containers that had holiday themes after which a number of plain white containers that may very well be embellished by the youth group members. We made twenty bins of every size. Our price for the cookie present bins was minimal as a result of most of us donated the elements for the cookies. We had priced holiday cookie trays at the local grocery retailer and bakery and located that they charged over $3.00/dozen. We thought this was costly but because this was a fund raiser we decided we would cost $8.00 for the small box and $15.00 for the larger box. We thought that we may drop the worth the second weekend if they didn't sell.
The cookie present containers were an enormous success. We bought out in minutes the primary weekend and had people requesting to be positioned on an order checklist for the second weekend. In addition to promoting the cookie reward containers we positioned a donation basket by the pay station. By the top of the third weekend we had raised sufficient cash to pay for the rally and water park prices, with more money left over for the following event.
