How To Motivate Students During Flower Sale Fundraisers

Motivate Students with Competition Prizes

Increasing student participation in a school fundraiser empowers and motivates kids to help improve their community. Fundraisers can motivate students to participate in the sales of flowers and plants by offering prizes to students who sell the most flowers.

By taking a portion of the funds raised in your school fundraiser and offering exciting prizes for students, you can motivate kids to help reach and surpass fundraising goals. Create milestones so students who reach a certain number of sales get exciting prizes. You can offer unlimited prizes to students who bring in a high number of sales because, as students sell more flowers, they are increasing the overall sales attributed to the fundraiser event.

Increasing student participation in school fundraising enhances community engagement; the more students are involved, the more their parents and families will become involved. Provide gift cards to the highest sellers so their families can do a fun activity together as a reward for the student. Fundraising is most successful when a large group of people comes together to collectively participate in raising money through the sale of flowers. As you grow your team of volunteers, you reduce the overall workload on the organizers while also increasing the reach of your fundraiser. Fundraising is for the community, and should involve the community. Continue reading to learn about unique ways to encourage students to become involved and help create better opportunities for their schools.

Fundraising Prizes for the Entire School

Providing community incentives helps get students excited to work together as a team. Increase student motivation by creating a system for competition, collective goals for the entire school to achieve, or milestones that incentivize continued enthusiasm towards the fundraiser. Creating prizes and goals for the fundraiser as a whole makes for a great team-building exercise and provides students of all ages with real-world applications on how a community can come together to make a positive impact. Fundraising with your peers, friends, and family is a clear example of strength and togetherness. Offer incentives and prizes like a class or team party, extended free periods or recess periods, class movie days, field trips, and more. During the fundraiser, students can both work alongside each other and compete, offering small and large prizes for different achievements in sales.

Divide classrooms and students into different teams so they can compete for the most flower sales. Post weekly results out in the open to create a challenge so students can measure their sales against other teams. Create healthy competition by offering points or small weekly prizes, while also encouraging students to meet collective goals together. Incorporate these larger prizes that include the entire grade class, or even the entire school, to include everything in the fundraiser.

Incorporate Fundraisers into School Curriculum

Schools can create unique programming that coincides with spring fundraisers by teaching students about plants, flowers, agriculture, and gardening.

There are many ways to incorporate education and engagement into your school curriculum, including creating a class garden. Planting a simple flower garden on school property gives each student a way to engage with the fundraiser beyond just the goal of increasing sales. A flower garden offers inspiration as students can physically see the flowers grow. Engaging with students in this way offers learning opportunities that directly correlate with their current fundraiser.

Growing Flowers In The Classroom

Individual classrooms can plant flowers in or near their windows to watch them grow throughout the fundraiser. Flowers that are planted before the fundraiser will sprout, grow, and eventually bloom. Create a correlation between flower growth and sales to keep students motivated and on task. Using recycled materials as “planters” allows students to take a potted flower home after the sale ends, acting as an additional prize. These class-grown flowers are more personal and engaging for students. A school can host an educational assembly with local horticulture experts to learn about interesting flowers and plants, both native and non-native. All of these unique ways of engaging students put fundraising at the center of the conversation. Keeping students interested in fundraising will increase sales and the overall success of your fundraisers.

Throw A Fundraiser Event

Fundraiser events are an interesting way to boost sales, engage with the community, and provide fun opportunities for students. Fundraiser events can be as simple as an entertaining fundraiser party. An event where attendees must donate or purchase flowers for entry raises money and gives people options on how they want to participate. Offer different prizes and competitions for attendees, like spinning prize wheels, or through friendly games and competitions. Provide unusual incentives and rewards that will get students excited, like throwing cream pies at teachers and staff. These events can be a memorable experience for the entire school, fundraising participants, and attendees.

Make Selling Flowers Simple

JOCO Growers provides promotional material to schools and other non-profit organizations to help them create an effective fundraising campaign. We also offer help with social media posts, flyers, posters, and printouts for people to hand out to families or hang in workplaces. Our goal is to make fundraising simple for schools and give them as much support as we can. By offering students QR codes, social media links, and other simplified ways to get more sales, you can increase the overall funds raised.

Helping Schools with Flower Sales

JOCO Growers has, from day one, focused entirely on helping with community fundraising. Our entire business model is built around growing high-quality, local flowers and plants to be used for flower sales. Flower fundraising is an effective form of fundraising that allows fundraiser organizers a simple yet alluring product that sells more easily than less attractive items.

We use our entire greenhouse to grow flowers and plants, and all of our plants are sold to fundraiser organizers. We work with fundraisers to allow them to pre-sell flowers so inventory management is simple! Once you have your final sales numbers, you can place your order, and we can organize a delivery date. We offer help where you need it and want to assist you in making the most impactful fundraiser possible. Reach out to JOCO Growers to begin setting up your next fundraiser.

Reach Your Fundraising Goals

If you’re planning your next fundraiser and aren’t sure what to do, consider doing a flower sale. Flowers are great throughout the year as these seasonal fundraisers typically align with holidays. Holidays like Mother’s Day, Thanksgiving, and Easter all have associations with flowers and plants, which means many potential customers are likely to purchase flowers regardless of whether it’s for a fundraiser. Use this as an incentive for your community to rally together in support of your fundraiser.