10 spooky fundraising ideas for Halloween
Image: Primary school-aged kids dressed up for Halloween, trick or treating.
Primary schools
1. Creepy crafts
Help the kids create some Halloween crafts to decorate their home with. Pipe cleaners could become spider legs, feathers could become a fluffy monster, and there are a 101 uses for googly eyes…
2. Pumpkin carving
Lots of shops sell foam pumpkins that the kids could carve using non-sharp implements, or get ceramic tealight holders for them to paint and bulk buy battery-operated candles to go inside them.
3. Trick or treat lucky dip
Wrap up a bunch of treats, such as sweets and cheap toys, as well as some tricks — this could be a booby prize, but if this feels a bit mean you could wrap something the kids could do tricks with, like yo-yos or joke books!
4. Costume competition
Leave the school uniform at home for a dressing up day and hand out a prize for the best costume. The costumes don’t have to be spooky — although you’ll probably end up with at least a dozen kids dressed as Elsa.
5. Make a monster
Let the kids’ imaginations run wild by asking them to make up and draw their own monster. What does their monster eat? Where do they live? What do they sound like? A prize for the most unique!
Secondary schools
1. The Witch’s Ball
Get the dry ice, blood-red punch and spooky music ready for an ambient ball that will be the highlight of the autumn term.
2. Scary movies
There are a gazillion horror movies appropriate for teens and pre-teens that you could screen for Halloween for a good scream (and as you can tell, the rhyming possibilities are endless).
Spooky art
Get the pupils inspired to create some Halloween-themed art — it can be a painting, short story, poem, whatever they want. Set up a gallery or performance evening to showcase your school’s talent.
Ghost walk
Put a Halloweeny spin on a sponsored walk by asking pupils to dress up as ghosts and walk a trail at night! You could hand out battery-operated tealights for a super spooky atmosphere.
BoOoOoOok sale
There are so many incredible YA horror books that pupils would love to get their hands on. Entice them into reading for fun with something a bit different!
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