Kids Curing Kids

Here’s a chance for kids to get involved! Listed below are some ideas to help kids get involved in the fundraising and awareness efforts of the Prayers from Maria Foundation. All of the thoughts and ideas are intended to be springboards for your own creativity and individualization. Each of the ideas can be adapted for appropriateness depending on the age level and the type of organization that may wish to entertain it. For each event be sure to put together a clear statement of what you hope to accomplish and your goals for raising money for the Prayers from Maria Foundation. Resources to support your fundraiser, including pamphlets and donation forms, can be obtained through our fundraising kit. Ideas Such As: Student-Faculty Play Off Game "Be a Wallflower" Rosary Marathon Novena Candles Break the Rules Day Fast Car Wash Costume Ball Birthday Donations Summer Job Talent Show Dance, Read, Walk, or Jump Rope-a-thon Face Painting Day Cow Pie Outdoor Summer Theatre Bake Sale Guessing Jar Principal Challenge

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Student – Faculty Play Off Game

• Choose a sport …volleyball, basketball, soccer or another one of your favorite sports…to compete against the teachers!
• Organize a team of students and a team of teachers
• Advertise and sell tickets to the event

“Be A Wallflower”

• Make a donation and decorate a sunflower to be displayed on a wall in the hallway of your school, church, or community building

Rosary Marathon

• Organize a sign up sheet divided into ½ hour segments
• Each participant collects pledges
• On a specified day each person, class, or group on the sign up sheet prays the rosary for their specified time
• Make sure there are no breaks in the schedule as this should be a continuous “marathon”

Novena Candles

• Purchase novena candles (in bulk) from a craft store, decorate them with glass paint and sell them
• You could decorate them around a theme (i.e. Christmas or Easter) in honor of someone you know

Break the Rules Day

• Donate $1 to have crazy hair, wear jeans, chew gum, or anything else that is “against the rules” at your school

Fast

• Get your class, youth group, or team to give up junk food for one week
• Donate the money you would have used for the snacks to the Prayers From Maria Foundation

Car Wash

• Hold a weekend car wash in your school parking lot or neighborhood
• Make fliers advertising your event

Costume Ball

• Organize this event around Halloween and sell tickets

Birthday Donations

• Ask the guests at your next birthday party to bring a donation for the Prayers From Maria Foundation instead of a gift
• You can do the same for your friend’s birthday. Make up a card explaining that a donation was given in their name

Summer job

• Make yourself available this summer to babysit, mow lawns, walk dogs, etc
• Make a flier to pass out to your neighbors explaining your job and that the money you earn will be donated to the Prayers From Maria Foundation

Talent Show

• Organize a talent show at your school to be held after school or on the weekend
• Sell tickets to the event

Dance-, Read-, Walk-, or Jump Rope-a-thon

• Create a pledge sheet and decide where you will hold your event
• Collect pledges from family, friends, and neighbors for each hour you walk, dance, or jump; each book or number of minutes you read; or number of times you jump rope
• What kind of “-a-thon” can you think of?

Face Painting Day

• Designate a day…sports day, school spirit day, the day of the “big” game…when kids can get their faces painted for a donation
• Gather a group of older students to do the painting in the morning and let everyone wear their art all day!

Cow pie

Here’s a humorous idea, if you know someone with a cow!

• You'll need one cow for about an hour, a football field, and a great sense of humor! Before the first football game of the season mark off a grid of 100 (or more) squares on the field. Number each square. Prior to the event sell one raffle ticket for each number on the field for $10 each.
• After a good lunch, let the cow loose on the field. As the excited crowd waits, let the cow pick a place to "go". Whatever square the cow "goes" on wins 50% of the monies collected. The other 50% goes to the Prayers From Maria Foundation.

Outdoor Summer Theatre

• Ask your parents and their friends if they know anyone with a projector
• Organize a movie night --show a movie on the side of your house or on your garage and provide popcorn and drinks
• Choose a date and make fliers advertising your event
• Tell everyone to bring a blanket and pillows or a beach chair
• Charge admission (the amount you would pay to see a movie at the theatre)

Bake Sale

• Organize a bake sale in your neighborhood or school
• For something different give your sale an international theme

Guessing Jar

• Fill a jar with something small; jelly beans, gumballs, Tootsie Rolls, etc
• Sell guesses for a specified amount
• The guess closest to the correct amount wins the jar!

Principal Challenge

• Challenge your principal or coach to shave his head or dye her hair a crazy color!
• The students/team must raise a specified amount of money for the Prayers From Maria Foundation in a certain amount of time determined by you and your principal/coach. When you reach your goal your principal or coach needs to make good on the challenge!