Get your whole church and community involved by staging a giant contest and fund-raiser. Think about some of the kids games you have played and how you could get large numbers of people involved in a special event involving these games.

How about staging the World’s Largest Musical Chairs Game?

• Participants pay a fee to enter.
• The game is played as usual, except – with dozens or even hundreds of persons playing – you need lots of volunteers to take away bunches of chairs each time and also help as judges and registrants.
• The prize for the last person remaining is – what else?– a chair!
  
• You can probably get a very nice reclining chair donated by a local furniture store. Or, you might get someone in your church to donate one.
• You can also probably get a local radio station to help you by providing music and/or an announcer and sound system for the event. If the weather is good, hold your event outdoors to get lots of attention. And, don’t forget to alert the news media.

You’ve heard of Walk-A-Thons and Running Events... How about holding
a Bicycle or Tricycle-A-Thon?

You can charge an entry fee and even give prizes for the best decorated bikes or trikes.

How about staging a parade to honor kids everywhere?

Draw attention to your projects, and collect gifts for your Kids To Kids ministry? Invite other churches, schools, and kid-related organizations to participate. Have an entry fee and offer prizes for the best decorated entries.

Eating Events are always fun as fund-raisers

Some ideas:

• An ice cream buffet; an international dinner (drawing upon food ideas where Kids To Kids ministry is taking place): an after-church brunch, with your group serving up bacon, eggs, and other goodies; a chocolate festival (where everything is chocolate!).
• And what about having a bake sale!
  
• Also–how about setting up a drive-in restaurant in your church parking lot one summer night and serving up burgers, fries, shakes, and root beer? Members of your group can wait on customers at their car windows. You may want to give your event a 1950's or 60's feeling by playing music from that era and dressing like old-time, drive-in waiters and waitresses.

Looking for a really different idea?

• Get an international cookbook at the library and find a recipe for fortune cookies.
• Type messages asking for help for your Kids To Kids ministry and bake the messages inside the cookies.
• Distribute the cookies during coffee hour at your church.

Fashion This!

Hold a Kids To Kids rummage sale.

• Clean out your closest, sell your old stuff, and use the profits to support your ministry.
• For special information on how to do this, call or email Kids To Kids using the Lets Hear From You page.

Now We’re Cooking!

Create a Kids To Kids cookbook and sell it. You may want to include recipes from some of the places you’ll be helping through your ministry.

Something For Something.

What could you do without to help someone else?

• You could buy another new dress or a pair of jeans... or help kids in India.
• You could give up one of your birthday gifts and send money to help buy a musical instrument for a child in Appalachia.
• You could buy another stuffed animal for yourself... or help kids attending Camp Lion.
• You could go out for Friday night pizza with your friends... or give that up one Friday a month and instead help kids locally or globally who need food.

Small Change Adds Up!

A Good way to get small change (that really adds up!) contributed for your projects.

• Decorate coffee cans, potato chip cans, and other types of cans with plastic using Kids To Kids symbols and art work.
• Place the cans in places where people might have a tendency to contribute their change – near vending machines, in the church narthex (lobby), at church coffee hours, lunches, and dinners.