What stalls do you have at your local fete?

A question about : What stalls do you have at your local fete?

I am after ideas for stalls that will raise money with little outlay. Just wondered what stalls/exhibits people have themselves or have seen and enjoyed at fairs. It would be nice to go back to some of the old traditional events from days gone by.
Look forward to your replies.

Best answers:

• Easy stall are white elephant (anything anyone will give)
  Coconut shy. need coconuts and shys?? (yes I am being facetious)!! big word don't know if I have spelt it right.
  Cake stall with james etc.,
  Palm reading member of family or person that knows how to do it. Tent and gypsy outfit.
  Face painting. again talented member of commitee or family.
  Darts. Cards pinned to a board score above a certain amount and win a prize (have to work out amount of prize money to cards. against cost of entry)
  Hoop la I know it sounds awful but as in all fairs the good prizes have to be put onp linths that are not easy to cover with hoop.
  Duck race - if near a stream otherwise paddling pool with ducks and magnets.
  The stall we have always found makes the most money is the strawberries and cream stall. Loads of punnets of streawberries cut all strawbs into 4 pile into dish add cream and charge £1 each. They sell well.
• pick a lolly
  tombola
  jar tombola
  bottle tombola
  plant stall
  guess no sweets in jar
  guess the name of cuddly toy
• chocolate chopsticks - selection of gold coins and as many as they can pick up in 20 seconds.
  soft drinks hoop- la
  ping pongs in jam jars
  cereal killer - knock down individual boxes of cereal (filled with sand!)
  lucky dice - prize every time
  pick a card - prize every time
  lucky dip
  soft toy "coconut" shy
  snail racing
  beat the goalie
  pinata (home made)
  and many more - pm if you need instructions more ideas
  better still visit loads of school fairs and see what they do
• no one has mentioned a book stall yet - you have to have a book stall
• book stall
  brick a brack
  cake stall
  guess the weight of...the cake/guess how many sweets in the jar
  a dressed doll...gusee the name of
  treasure map, guess where the treasure is?
  oh and that annoying beat the buzzer game, top scores wins something everyone else wins penny sweet
  shove penny- if you know what i mean,lol
• How about:
  Lucky Dip Nail Bar - put your hands through two holes in a screen and two nail artists will paint your nails with colour and humour
  Flyaway Paper Planes - Build your own aeroplane and see how far or how high you can get it to go with an elstic band
• IME, the things which raised the most money for the smallest outlay were the raffle and any tombolas. Teddy tombolas with donated toys, bottle tombola for adults, tin tombola, toiletries tombola ... people love to gamble.
  What we found worked well on that theme was a Jam Jar stall: you ask everyone to bring in a jam jar full of something - anything. Then number them up, charge 50p (could probably make that Ј1 these days!) and give a prize every time.
  Ideas to put in the jam jars - coloured pasta, bath bits, stationery, sweets, small biscuits, cakes - if it fits in the jar, use it! And the jar doesn't have to be a jam jar - any size jar will do.
  We also used to run a 'best-decorated jam jar' competition before the day of the fete to encourage everyone to bring one in. It also brightened the stall.
  Ooh, look, I found this from last year, more ideas, plus I describe Olympic Balloon Throwing! Doesn't raise a huge amount, but great fun!
• Tea and coffee stall.
• went to my son's school fair last night and by far the busiest and most profitable stall was a raffle for a wheelbarrow full of beer. It was an absolute winner with the dad's needless to say. I know you said you wanted little outlay but if you bought the beer bogof, or the other way would be to use a tesco 1000 point wine code and have a wheelbarrow full of wine instead. good luck
• Any ideas on the best beer deal at the moment???
• Not sure about best beer deals, but you could perhaps raffle a barrow (or other suitable container) of mixed alcoholic donations, rather than the traditional bottle stall (tombola). The trouble with most school tombolas is that the vast majority of the prizes are only worth about the ticket price or less, which isn't really hugely appealing, but some people will still have a go in the hope of winning the one decent prize (bottle of vodka or whatever), and if they end up with a tin of beans instead they're not as disappointed as if they'd won nothing at all!
  Cake and candy is always popular, with home-made tablet a big seller.
  Toy and book stalls are also expected, and again, goods are donated so no expense involved.
  If you're having a darts stall, be very careful about offering cash or other costly prizes: you might end up with the dilemma of being a spoilsport by limiting the number of shots any one person can have, or paying out repeatedly to someone who's unusually good at it.
• Balloon races are an excellent earner and loads of fun for the kiddies too.
  You can make your own labels and give a prize for the furthest travelled (i.e. the label that gets sent back to you from the furthest address) - say a tenner. The person that sends it back also gets a reward.
  Not sure how much the helium costs but you can sell these balloons for a quid or two each and it's a great attraction!
• Pick a stick.
  Two plastic trays filled with sand. Paint only a few lolly sticks red, the rest leave white. They get the lolly plus a small prize like a bubble tub if they win.
  If they don't they get just the lolly.
  85p-1.00 a go.
• Cake stall
  Curry stall
  bric-a-brac stall
  book stall
  cans & jars stall
  hook a bag stall (Gift bags with small prizes in and use a broom handle to "hook" them)
  dress up and have a photo taken
  penalty shoot outs
  any crafty type things ie. make your own bookmark (Cut strips of coloured paper and the kids pay 50p to decorate it)
• toy stalls are always good to get the money in and the people. A plant stall would be good aswell.
• Wheel of fortune. Circle of card with 8 differently coloured numbered segments. Sell each segment at £1. Spin the wheel. Holder of the winning number gets a prize and you make £8 per spin of the wheel.
  Coconut shies make loads of money. Phone round and find somewhere to borrow one from or someone to make one. We use builders mesh screens as a safety cage round the poles. 25 coconuts £8 from a fruit and veg wholesaler. Left over coconuts sell at £1 each to those not lucky enough to win one.
  BBQs and beer are also great combinations and for kids it has to be a bouncy castle.
  Baker Ross sell giant punching balloons at 50 for £15. Put in a some rice before blowing up and they make a great noise. Sell on at £1 each or use as prizes.
  Wilkinsons sell bottles of bubble mix for 25p also great for prizes.
  Coloured hairspray is also fantastic and very quick to do. £1.49 a can from Wilkinsons. We bought 15 cans and ran out after 90 minutes charging £1 a time.
  Tombollas are good too. Make life easy for yourself. Make a large grid with numbers in multiples of 5 from 1-100. Place your prizes on the grid. Number plastic milk bottle tops from 1-100 and place in a bucket. The odds never change and you can keep adding prizes for as long as you can find things to put on the grid.
  Ice cream cones - cones on 3 for £2 at Tesco so 63 cones for £2. Value ice cream 75p per tub. Sell each cone at 50p.
  Generally if your prices are low enough people will have 2 or 3 goes, once you top 50p it puts people off.
  Selling raffle tickets prior to the event also works well. £30 to register with your local authority. Ticket printing is not cheap but from past experience if we sell raffle tickets on the day we're lucky to raise £150. By selling them prior to the event this increased to over £1000.
  ******* DO NOT USE D.W. Print of Hastings. ************ Whilst they are cheaper than their competitors I placed this years order with them at the end of April. The cheque was banked a week later. After dozens of phone calls the tickets arrived 10 days before the draw date despite having been assured they had been dispatched mid May (courier label said June 6th). There is a web site dedicated to the failings of DW Print. https://dwprint.tripod.com/ I only wish I'd found it before placing my order. Hope this prevents someone else making the same mistake.
• get a ladder and put a card with points in between each rung - the further away the more points you get
  used toy stall always does well , parents are always keen to get rid of unused toys -
  we get cambridge utd to come to our fetes with their speed camera goal - £1 a go x 3 shots to see who has the fastest shot - dads love it -
  if you've got good ground , pin a £5 - £10 - £20 to the grass and get a golf putter , if the ball stops directly on the chash they keep the prize .
  also a crockery smash is v popular
• https://www.braishfieldfayre.com/index.html
  This is the fayre I am helping organise, the things that take the most money are the bar and BBQ. Tug of war is good especially if you can get the local pubs to bring a team as they spend on the bar.
• Human fruit machine............. the parents love it just for the humour factor.
  You might get the local fruit and veg shop to sponsor a large advert on it too.