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!