PTO Today

Hello everyone! This is my first post here. I am the treasure for my schools PTO. This is my first year doing this and I'm super excited!!! Every year we always do BooGrams for Halloween. You know what I'm talking about? The little Tootsie Roll suckers wrapped in white tissue so that they look like a ghost. We sell them for .50 cents to students, parents and teacher that buy them for another student or teacher in the school. We then deliver them to the that student in their classroom. The kids love them, we also have a valentine and bunny gram that we do. The problem is we are all sick of the boograms and would love to find some replacement for them. We thought about the little bag of pretzels that Sam's sells but while they would be healthier I don't think the kids would like them as much. Does anyone have any thoughts on something else we could do? I would like to keep the cost down so we could still sell them for .50 cents.

Thanks!

If you mean at Halloween then I'm not sure...we have done "Sham Grams" on St Paddy's Day--cut out shamrocks that are signed and had a good luck coin attached...they went well...d

What about going with a fall theme and dropping leaves? You can cut out leaf shapes in fall colors, punch a hole near the base of the leaf, run a short length of yarn or ribbon through the hole and knot it, then tie little bags of candy corn mixed with peanuts and pretzels to the other end. When they get delivered you can drop them from above onto the recipient's desk.

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That is a very cute idea. Thanks! I also like the St. Patty's day thing as well. We have never done one for that holiday.

There are companies that sell chocolate pops and often they are holiday themed. We sell these at Valentines and they are roses. I believe that they have witches, ghosts, etc...

They come individually wrapped and there are various flavors. We charge a bit more than you are looking at though. $1, where 50 cents in profit.

PresidentJim

That might we worth looking into. We wouldn't mind charging 1.00 if need be. We charged 1.00 for our bunny grams last year, they were the large plastic easter eggs filled with wrapped candies. That is the hard thing about our school, we can't use candy like candy corns unless we could find single serving size bags of candy corn. We can't have open candy, it all has to be wrapped candy. We only charged .50 cents for the tootsie pops because of how cheap they are. We had a church donate several hundred of the normal sized plastic eggs so we are going to fill those with candy and only charge .50 cents for the bunny grams this year.

Here's the information from the company that we used. And after seeing the picture I remembered that a couple of years ago we did do the Halloween Chocolate Pops fundraiser...

Chocolate Halloween Lollipop Fundraiser
Chocolate Halloween Fall Lollipop Fundraiser

Perfect for your Halloween Fundraising Program. Great for Fall Festivals too!

Check out these new Creamy Chocolate Halloween Lollipops! These delicious chocolate lollipops are available in milk chocolate & white.

Choose from White Ghosts, Orange Pumkins, or Chocolate Witch lollipops. You can get a mixed case of all three designs or just one.

Come 360/case. One case minimum. Your cost only $216/case.

Free shipping/handling. You sell them for $1 each.

Normal delivery is 7-10 days. No refund or exchanges on food items.


Here's the site, hope it helps:
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Good luck,
PresidentJim

Thank you!

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In the past we having done pumpkin grams at our school. Parents and students can write a note that is attached to a die-cut pumpkin and then attached to a pencil (ours is black and orange with paw prints to go along with our mascot - the tiger). We charged $1 each, and sell out most years!