Support Your School!
53 Auction Ideas
Always Popular
1. Sports tickets
2. Sports memorabilia
3. Tickets for local cultural events
4. Vacation packages with few restrictions or strings
5. Gift certificates for dinner at a local restaurant
6. Wine
7. Golf
8. High-end jewelry
Themed Baskets/Packages
9. Book Club basket, gather all of the great books you have read with your book club
10. Wine Club basket put an assortment of four of your favorite bottles or go in with your neighbors and make it a case, throw in a Wasik's gift card for a real treat.
11. Family Night basket, everything you need to enjoy a night in with your family: classic board games, dvd's, pizza delivery gift certificate
12. April Staycation basket; include passes to local museums, Plaster Fun time, Cosmic bowling in Needham, passes to TOMB in Boston; AMC movie passes
13. Mom's Beach bag filled with towels, pail, shovel, sunscreen and magazines
14. Sick Day basket; chicken soup, ginger ale, saltines, cozy blanket, dvd
15. Ultimate sleep over basket; include cozy fleece blanket, warm socks, Sprague flannel pants, 2 of your favorite movies, popcorn and a pizza gift card.
16. Father's Day basket; slippers, a favorite book, free pass to watch the Masters, gift card to Home Depot
17. Mother's Day basket; gift certificate for pedicure, favorite lotion, flowers, a homemade meal, box of chocolates
Other fun ideas
18. Basketball party in the gym
19. Bedtime story in your own home, read by a teacher
20. Boating trip on local lake or river
21. Boating trip with the boat owner and your group of friends
22. Camping trip, hosted by an experienced family for camping novices
23. Fee-free year: no PTO checks, free yearbook, school t-shirt, no field trip fees, free school photo package
24. Guest DJ on a local radio station
25. Limo ride with your teacher to a local restaurant
26. Name the school road for a year; keep the street sign at the end of the year
27. Picnic lunch with a teacher outdoors at school
28. Tour of a local newspaper, radio station, TV station or sporting venue
29. Training session with high school or college coaches or a high school team (e.g. cheerleaders or pom pom squad)
30. Dog walking, explore the many trails of Wellesley with your dog
31. Pet Sitting, care for cat, dog, gerbil or fish while your family is away
32. Foreign language lessons, do you speak French, Spanish, or German? Provide 4 half hour sessions.
33. Interior Design Consultation
34. Custom Marathon training for Boston 2011
35. Sprague Monopoly; make a custom Monopoly board with Sprague in mind
36. Middle School survival kit; includes WMS spirit wear; locker accessories; half day Wednesday gift card to
Linden Store; ipod shuffle; offer of 5 rides to school in the a.m.
37. Evening of free babysitting
38. Authentic Indian, German, Italian, Japanese dinner, provide a meal from one of the many cultures represented
at Sprague
39. Trade your grocery list for the spa, give up your Roche Bros. list enjoy a mani/pedi while your grocery shopping is done
40. Trip to the dump
41. Fall yard clean up
42. Provide a cocktail party for 10, join in with 2 other couples, provide, appetizers, specialty drink, sweets set-
up and clean-up
43. Dessert of the month club, provide a dessert once a month for 6 months.
44. Dinner of the month club, provide a dinner for a Sprague family once a month for 4 months
45. Champagne and dessert party for 12
46. Help someone clean out the clutter and get organized
47. Provide scrapbooking session
48. Mother/Daughter Book club starter kit, include eight books with questions and activity suggestions
49. Is the pressure of the holidays getting you down? Presents will be wrapped in style, deliver at least a week before Christmas or Hanukkah 2010
50. Let me design your holiday cards and or personal stationary
51. Host a stitch and chat group; provide coffee and muffins or lunch
52. Custom window boxes for this spring
53. Care package for child away at college or camp
...the possibilities are endless!
