I'm an interested in learning if any scools do a "book swap". We do an annual readathon and would like to culminate the event with a guest reader and book swap open to all students as an evening program. I am curious about coordinating the different reading levels in a k-5 school.

Also, we are interested in doing a bike rodeo. Has anyone had any success with this?

Did you get any replies on this?

We are holding our first annual Book Swap to coordinate with Earth Day. We thought the recycling element would work nicely.

How did your swap go?

We don't really have a "book swap" but we have a family bingo night and each person participating brings in a gently used book to use as Bingo prizes. We have done this for years and many people clean off their book shelves and bring in boxes of books for the kids. We borrow the bingo equipment from a local company. So this event is low cost and kids love it. Several parents have asked if next year we can swap books for parents.
Hope this helps!

That is a great idea. We could tie the Bingo night with the end of our Readathon and since the books are prizes that would be a great way to tie it together. In fact, I think people would be very inclined to attend because of the bingo aspect. We had discussed getting a guest author or librarian to help with the event after the Readathon and that might be able to part of the event. Thanks for the wonderful idea.

Sorry to ask a question that's not relevant to the original post, but do you have to get a gambling license to have bingo?

Tracy

When I talked to our county PTA unit, they said as long as we weren't charging any money we could have it on school property. I assume that if no money is involved that it is not considered gambling. I'm not sure if that helps.