Auction Items
Purchased at a 30% discount, students work together to paint items for auction at your annual fundraiser. We will be happy to send the appropriate paint with you to the school to get hand- or fingerprints. You then bring the item back to finish painting, and then we'll glaze and fire your masterpiece.
There are several great projects we can suggest. Entire classes can work on a joint platter or tile tray, or a set of dessert dishes created by a specific group. Flower pots, cookie jars and vases are all creative ways to show off fingerprints. We have several wonderful idea books we'd love to share with you.
Want to raise even more money? We've got a few good ideas...
Plates: Have a group-, class- or school-wide plate-painting event. These plates regularly sell for $15, but for schools and non-profits we offer them at a discounted price of $10. If your group then sells them for $20 or $25, you have a built-in profit of $10 or $15 per plate.
For a class of 30, selling the plates at $20, you will have $300. If you buy 100, and sell them for $25 each, your profit will be $1500.
If you sell 500 or more, we'll give you another dollar off each plate. Selling 500 plates at $25 will net your organization $8000.
Tiles: Just like the plates, but with tiles! Our 6" tiles are regularly $8, but for groups of 20 or more are only $5. Sell them for a table-top, a tile wall, or for everyone to take home.
Multiple-Item Offering: Take the idea you were going to use for the auction item, and offer it to everyone! For example, you have a plate with everyone in the classroom's thumbprint turned into a frog. In a silent auction, it might bring your group $200. But if you offered it to everyone, you might make even more. If you buy the plate for $20 and offer the *limited edition* plates for $50 each and you sell 10 of them, you've made $300. Even better, 10 people have a wonderful memory of the year.
