Dear 6th Grade Parents,
Our Van Allen Fall Fun Fair is approaching! The Fun Fair helps the school by
raising monies to support field trips, visiting authors, art, music and PE
programs, and providing extra monetary support to our teachers. The event also
builds community through working together towards a common goal — building a
better school for our kids! Our families play the starring role making the Fun
Fair a success.
This year, the PTO is organizing themed gift baskets by grade for the Silent
Auction portion of the Fun Fair. The theme for our 6th graders is RECHARGE
& RENEW. We are requesting family donations for these baskets, and have
lots of ideas below. If you don’t want to do the shopping, monetary donations
(checks made to Van Allen PTO) are appreciated, and would be used by the PTO to
purchase appropriate items to add to the basket. You can start sending
donations in immediately! However, please send your donations to your child’s
classroom by Friday, September 25th.
Every Van Allen Parent is part of the PTO and plays a role in the Fun Fair and
the Silent Auction. It’s a fabulous party for our families and their friends to
celebrate the school, eat, play games and shop for fantastic goods and
services. Parents are what make the Fun Fair a success. Parents donate. Parents
set up and decorate. Parents solicit and procure donated items for baskets that
make up the backbone of the Silent Auction. Parents come and support the school
through their purchases. It’s the party of the year and you don’t want to miss
it!
Go Rockets!
Van Allen PTO
IDEAS FOR RECHARGE & RENEW BASKET (Don’t let these limit your
creativity - use your own ideas!)
- Coffee! - beans, ground, Keurig
- Iced coffee / other coffee drinks
- Coffee mugs
- To-go coffee cups
- French press
- Coffee filters
- Chocolate spoons
- Stirrers
- Creamer
- Flavored syrups
- All kinds of chocolates!
- Hot chocolate mix
- Gourmet marshmallows
- Chocolate-covered coffee beans
- Chocolate-covered berries and pretzels
- Biscotti / cookies
- Baked goods, chocolate or otherwise
- Doughnuts
- Gift card to a coffee shop
- Gift card to Sweets & Treats
- T-shirts with coffee- or chocolate-themed saying
- Coffee- or chocolate-scented candles
- Coffee mug cozy
- Book about the history of coffee or chocolate
- DVD or book of Like Water for Chocolate or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Chocolate cookbook
