Garden group ideas for school fair please

[jackyspratty]

Hi all

Thought Id posted this yesterday but not here!

Any way our school fair is looming and Id like ideas for our garden group to do to raise cash. We have very limited resources so cheap and cheerful, plus quick please!

Ideas generously given so far are....

Salad pots
Terracota pot decorating
Grass heads
scarecrow making
and obvously selling stuff weve grown!

What ideas do you have that could help a cash strapped group raise its profile and funds, whilest having fun!!

I woldve put this in a school growing sticky but there isnt one

Im awaiting your inspiration! xxx

[jackie j]

This week I asked the people who do the council gardens if they had anything we could use on the lottie that would be thrown away. In the skip I found hundreds of plastic pots in the trays ( 18 slots ) seed cells ( mostly 6 cells ) they also gave me loads of dahlia's and geranium's some of which I took to grandson's school for the school fete. Find out who does your council gardens and ask. The ones that do ours are right next door.

[Hans Mum]

donna, ask at redhall the council nursery place, we got loads of 6 cell pots, some compost which we sieved and got a load of tiny tiny plug plants out which grew on. Its the plant sale there this weekend I think so they might have left overs on monday

[Two_Sheds]

I've saved up loads of yogurt pots and mushroom boxes over the year, the children are now planting them up with compost and seeds (free or cheap seeds: self-saved pumpkins & sunflowers mostly). They need a waterproof marker to write the seed name on the pot too

They're really, really happy doing that: maybe you could charge 20p a pot to cover the cost of the compost?

They like painting stones too: get a big pebble and some acrylic paint and turn them into ladybugs, bees etc. (For permanence, coat with yacht varnish)

[reetnproper]

Hows about the children writing care sheets for the various crops they've grown, laminating them (if your school has a laminator) and then selling them for say 50p per sheet (depending on how much it costs to laminate etc). Should get 2 per A4 sheet of paper if done on the computer.

Along with the grass heads, as an alternative that can be eaten, cress heads (cress seeds are pretty cheap). Ask parents to send in yoghurt pots, margerine containers etc for containers and then sell for 25/50p to cover cost of compost and seeds.

Reet
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[jackyspratty]

Thanks everyone. Great ideas. re the council at Rdcar we wnet there when we set up the group in March and they said they could only give us free pots (which we have loads of already) but might be worth a call by Next week to see what left overs they have for even cheaper than usual!!

xx