Community Park A Mess? Teach Your Kids To Raise Money To Help Build It Back Up
Posted on: 26 June 2015
If the park in your community is old and rundown, your kids can raise some money to get started building it back up again. They will likely not raise enough for the entire project, but they will be proud that they helped out. Below are three ways your kids can do this.
Host a Charity Party
Rent a local venue for your child to host a charity party. If you tell the venue why you are renting it, they may offer it free to you. Let them help you decorate the room with pictures of kids playing on playground equipment, or let the neighborhood kids make their own masterpieces on art paper.
Charge an admission to get through the door. Set up snacks and drinks to sell to the people that attend your charity to make even more money. Put a bowl on the table for people to put more money into. Type information about why you are raising money on paper, and give one to each person as they arrive.
Have a Change Bucket Competition
To do this you will have to speak with your child's school. In most cases, they should not have a problem helping you out. Ask a few of your child's teachers to place a bucket in their classroom to collect change from children for one month. At the end of the month, add up the change for each bucket. The teacher who has the most change will have to do something outlandish, such as dressing up in a crazy outfit for a day, put temporary hair color in their hair, or come to school with their face painted. Other schools in the neighboring area may offer to do the bucket challenge for the cause also.
Set Up a Website
Help your child set up a website to raise money. You could put a button on the website that the visitors can click on to send money to a certain financial institution. Place a goal amount on the website, such as "our goal is to make $500." As people send money, add it to the goal so people can see how much more you need. You may want to consider hiring a website designer to do this for you if you do not have the right skills.
Make up flyers to hand out to everyone with the link to your website. Include information about why your child is raising money.
While your kids are raising money for their community, talk to them about local charities that are set up. For example, they could raise extra money to give to an organization that helps homeless people or for endangered and/or abused pets.
To learn about helping the poor, contact an organization such as American Giving.
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