School auction

Y’all know how much I love to party. Marry that love with creative projects and I am ALL IN. Most privately funded schools must do some sort of fundraising to meet the gap between what parents pay and what it actually costs to operate the school. I figure if you’re raising money, you might as well…

"city" block print collage, kindergarten auction project- love this idea for an auction if PRS were to ever do something like this...

Every year our school has a school auction and each grade is responsible for creating a class project to be auctioned off during the live portion of the event. This year, I was in charge of our third grade class auction project. I honestly had no idea what I was agreeing to when I volunteered, but ... Read more

This project was created for our local elementary schools art auction fund raiser. My daughters fourth grade class decorated the tiles.

Let’s celebrate the beginning of the school year with some wonderful class projects.

Finger print cookie jar

Class art projects are common offerings at school auctions. At this New York school, one art project sold for $50,000 and became the basis for a lawsuit.

The right unique school auction items will sell for high dollar in your gala. And a potato cannon, made by the school’s beloved maintenance department, in an all-boys Catholic school … is a perfect example of that. Wait until you see what the cannon sold for!

For a more modern take on student silhouettes, check out Judith Fernstrom's photography blog. The colorful, framed project is sure to generate excitement at an