School Fund Raising Idea - Custom Gift Wrap

Some of the best fund raising ideas for schools are those which
involve the pupils in some kind of creative activity. I'll bet
if you asked most young children what they enjoy most at school
the answers would include drawing or painting. Combining the
talents of our children with parents and grandparents
willingness to spend money is a winning combination.

And how do you get all that creativity on to something that
displays our children's artistic skills to as wide an audience
as possible? You print it on gift wrapping paper. Possibilities
for themes are endless, but parent's pockets aren't, so selling
the gift wrap at a couple of events a year should be just
right. The most obvious are the Summer Fete or Fair and at
Christmas.

Get the children to create their works of art on A4 paper
sheets. They can be on white paper, or for an interesting
effect spread a few different coloured papers among the pupils.
A standard sheet of Gift Wrap is 500mm x 700mm or similar. When
the children's illustrations are reduced down in size, you can
fit any number from about 72 up to 288 images on to a sheet. It
depends on the effect you want to achieve. The white background
tends to work better with the lower numbers and the
multi-coloured papers with higher numbers. Duplicate images as
desired or necessary to make up the numbers.

The children's images are scanned and montaged using design
software and printing should be carried out by a printing
company. How much of the work of creating the gift wrap is
carried out by the school will depend on the school's own
capabilities. However, it is recommended that the assembly of
images and final printing is carried out by professionals. The
minimum quantity for printing gift wrap of this kind is 1000
sheets. The profit on this amount should be at least 100% after
printing costs are taken out. For larger quantities, the amount
raised by the school would be even higher.

At Christmas time, an additional fund raiser is to have
greetings cards printed with images from the gift wrap. The
advantage with these fund raising projects is that they can be
repeated annually with different sets of children taking part.
As well as the money raised, the expressions on the children's
faces when they see their work in print is priceless.

About The Author: Richard Leeds is the founder of PrintJuggler,
and provides a personal service for customers with custom
printing and gift wrap packaging requirements. For more details
visit http://www.printjuggler.com

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