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A favorite game for students at our school is the pencil pull. It doesn't take a lot of set up so it's also a favorite of teachers and homeroom parents. You need a bale of hay and lots of new pencils. You push pencils
into the front side of the hay (lots of unsharpened ones and some sharpened ones.) The children pay a ticket for a chance to pull. If they pull out an unsharpened pencil, that is the prize. If they pull out a shapened pencil, they give it back and get a small treat (candy, trinket, etc). We always have many students play this game and most come back several times. Of course you'll have

to keep refilling the hay with pencils but that's about all the work it takes. We asked the students to send pencils last year and we also went to local businesses and many of them donated pencils with their logo. It's also good to put in some of the decorated pencils and those with cool erasers on the top.
Another game is to set up 2-liter drink bottles ( and type drink) like bowling pins (except use more than 10). The students take a small hoop and stand back and try to ring the bottles. If they get the ring on the bottle that is their prize. This one is usually good because parents can easily donate a two liter drink.