HI I AM PLANNING MY FIRST EVER SPAGHETTI DINNER MY SCHOOL HAS 500+ STUDENTS, ANY TIPS ON HOW TO ORGANIZE WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!! I AM IN SUFFOLK COUNTY LONG ISLAND. THANKS!!!!!

I'm working on the same thing and still haven't worked out all the details, although we are currently selling tickets and the event is less then a week away!

If you have some specific questions I might be able to provide information based on the recent experience.

Hi Erica-
Here's an old thread on spaghetti suppers that has some good info and ideas in it:

www.ptotoday.com/boards/17-fundraising/1...ur-elementary-school

Also, there are a couple of spaghetti dinner documents in our file exchange:

www.ptotoday.com/filesharing/category/136-spaghetti-dinner

Love to hear what has worked for other leaders for their spaghetti events!

~Lisa



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Does anyone have a spaghetti recipe to share for easy. We are expecting around 200.

We do a spaghetti dinner every year and it's a blast. One thing we found to be key is to have people rsvp. We recently moved to giving people the option to rsvp via Facebook and it has worked out well.. We break out what people do by grade... it is our tradition to have the 6th grade families do the spaghetti & sauce. It is the only thing we make at the school. They have huge pots we can use. K brings drinks, Grade 1 brings garlic bread, grade 2 brings salads, grade 3 brings drinks, grade 4 brings paper goods and grade 5 does the invitations. The room parents for each grade sends out the call for help and coordinates. We find that breaking it out specifically like this helps the response and kind of creates some competition. No grade wants to be the grade that doesn't come through. Hope this helps. Have fun : )

We did ours as a fundraiser and found a local pizza parlor that was willing to provide the food at cost. This was huge for us, as we aren't allowed to use our cafeteria's kitchen. We also had a bake sale, silent auction, raffle and kids' games. We sold the dinner tickets in advance so we'd have an idea how many people to expect—they were $1 cheaper in advance than buying at the door.