Saturday, 2 March 2013

Fundraiser Ideas?


Hello to all my Forest Critters viewers!  Hope you’re having a good day today!  I have a favour to ask of you all.  In my high school I'm going to start doing fundraisers soon to help raise money for my local organization that helps to spay/neuter and adopt out feral cats, "Allies for Alley Cats."  You can help me by coming up with some ideas that rowdy high school students might enjoy but are simple and cheap to achieve.  Here are some ideas I have so far and please comment if you think of anything else or have any ideas to add on or to improve my current ones.



Possible School Fundraisers

  • Pet photo contest, must donate at least $1 to enter photo.  Photos will be judged, winner gets a gift card (Tim Hortons?).
  • Battle of the genders, see if girls or boys can bring in more money.  Winning gender gets jolly ranchers at lunch.
  • Beanie bag for a day in class.  Raffle tickets cost a) $0.50 and 5 for $2 or b) $1 each and 5 for $3 (haven't decided which price to use yet).
  • Survival game in forest near school on a Friday after school.  To enter you must pay $5 at school (registration fee).  Last survivor gets a gift card (Tim Horton’s?).  After each person is caught (little flags on the belts so no one can cheat and say they weren’t caught?) they must come back and tell us so we can scratch them off the list.  Then they must continue as a predator.

Oh Deer, Another Deer!


Today I had the fortune to waking up to a wonderful sight in my backyard.  My older sister woke me up today (much to my displeasure) and once my eyes opened and I could put together a cognitive sentence she left my room.  Half awake but quickly slipping back under into my dream state, she begins loudly whispering "Hannah there's a deer outside!"  Sure enough I look out my window and there is the most beautiful deer I have seen.  Big, yet surprisingly graceful the creature drifts across our yard gingerly placing her hooves in the snow as she walks.  Her large, ebony eyes were calm and her ears twitched ever so slightly as she approached a cedar and munched on a twig.  At this point my sister is telling the cats not to move or meow and once again whispering loudly for my dad to wake.  Of course though, once my dad wakes up and gets to the window, the deer has disappeared as quietly as she came back into the forest.  I consider myself to be extremely fortunate to be able to wake up to a sight such as that!