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What is tombola
The traditional form of Tombola came from Italy in the eighteenth century, but has since evolved into various forms. In essence it is a type of raffle where prizes are pre-assigned to certain numbers, and players draw a number (in the form of a numbered ball or ticket) to determine if they have won a prize.
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In the context of fundraising, tombola has evolved to prizes being contained in numbered bottles or jars, and players draw a number and win the corresponding jar.
Forms of tombola
A wine tombola will have various bottles of wine (which can be wrapped in brown paper so people don’t know what they are, or left bare to everyone can see the labels), with a few high-end expensive wines as the draw-card. Players might pay $10 for a ticket, in the hope they win a $50 bottle of wine.
A bottle tombola will have a variety of bottled goods – from shampoo to passata to pickles to jams – usually all pantry items, and the price for a ticket might be $2-$5. Brian christopher slots new today.
Most commonly, tombola prizes are jars filled with assorted items. Part of the fun of tombola is the huge range of items that the jars can contain, and I have provided a list below of more than 75 things you can put in a tombola jar, including some very special prizes for school kids that will cause a lot of excitement.
How to run a tombola
Tombola can almost be 100% profit if you get families within your school or community to provide the pre-filled jars. As long as they are filled with non-perishable items, you can start preparing the jars months in advance of your fundraising event, leaving minimal work for the day.
Jars can be second-hand as long as they are clean and have no label. They can be a range of sizes and shapes, and while you can leave them bare, they look extra nice when all the lids are covered with a matching cloth cover.
A great way of getting tombola donations is to ask students to bring a filled tombola jar in lieu of a gold coin donation for a free-dress/mufti day. People often have items around the house they can fill their jars with – there is no requirement for them to buy items specifically.
Once all the jars have been received, each must be numbered. You can simply stick a raffle ticket on each, or make special stickers with you school or fete logo which you hand number. Either way, you need to have the corresponding raffle ticket (or numbered ball) in a barrel or bucket for players to draw from.
You can decide if every ticket drawn wins a prize or if some of the numbers have a consolation prize (a lollypop) or no prize at all. Some recommendations suggest that 1 in 4 tickets win a prize, but I personally believe that all players should win a prize.
The cost to play (ie draw a number from the barrel) is a set price (ie $2 or $5) but it is fine for the value of the prizes to vary wildly – as it is the ‘valuable’ jars that act as a draw card. Make sure you promote the more unusual and valuable tombola prizes in advance to build excitement.
On the day of your event, all you need are tables to display your jars and a barrel or bucket full of tickets/numbers for players to draw from.
Hint: make sure you put your jars out in numerical order (not random). If the stall gets busy, you don’t want to be looking through 250 jars to find the correct one.
Suggestions for tombola jars
New/Pre-loved toys
Lego
Marbles
Costume jewellery
Barbie doll clothes
Temporary tattoos
Shopkins etc
Matchbox cars
Toy soldiers/dinosaurs/farm animals
Jokes
Skipping rope
Ping pong balls or tiny bouncy balls
Assorted goodies you get in party bags
DIY (include recipe/instructions in a small snap-lock bag folded at the top of the jar)
Non-perishable Ingredients for slime
Ingredients for cookies and brownie
Ingredients for playdough
Items to make pet rocks (smooth pebbles, paint, googly eyes etc)
Compilations
Gardening gloves, seed packets etc
Pencils, erasers, sharpener, tiny notebook, paper clips etc
Sewing kit: threads, tiny scissors, pins, needles, tape measure, thimble etc
Pamper kit: emery board, nail polish, face mask, bath bomb
Emergency kit: mini torch, mini screwdrivers, safety pins, tape etc
First aid kit – bandaids, eye wash, anti-bacterial cream etc Supercheap nudge bar.
Make fresh just prior to event
Home-made sugar scrubs
Lollies or lolly pops (very popular and easy to make)
Chocolates
Home-made chutneys and jams
Fete related prizes
Vouchers for free rides
Meal/ice cream vouchers
Extra raffle tickets for the raffle
‘Fete dollars’ to spend at any stall at the fete
Extra special school prizes (if a non-school person win these, you can always let them pick again)
Win your entire class a pizza party
Win your entire class a free icecream from the canteen
Win your entire class a movie afternoon
Win your school a free-dress day (you get to pick the theme)
Win your teachers a dress-up day (you get to pick the theme)
Win your class an extra-long recess
Household
Elastic bands, tiny bulldog clips or paperclips
Origami paper
Hair elastics, scrunchies or hair clips (new)
Push-pins/thumb tacks
Party poppers
Bubble mix
New socks
Balloons
Water balloons
Tiny novelty erasers
5 cent pieces or $2 coins
Scratch’n’win tickets
A rolled $20 or $50 note
Tea-light candles
Fridge magnets
Glow sticks
Chalk
Beach sand with beautiful shell hidden inside
Beauty
Bath salts
Bath gel balls
Exfoliating gloves
Face masks
Lip gloss or balm
Nail polish
Potpourri
Craft
Buttons
Tubes of glitter
Glitter glue
Beads
New pencils or crayons
Pom poms
Tiny bows
Googly eyes
Pipe cleaners
Washi tape
Brad pins
Stamps
Sequins
Stickers
What is your favourite tombola idea?
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Tombola Stall or ‘Lucky Jar’ for your next fundraising event?
Tombola Balls Meaning
In some languages, the word Tombola roughly translates to ‘raffle’, so if you’re not familiar with a Tombola stall, that should give you a good indication of where we’re going with this one. However, it’s not your typical raffle where there are only one or two winners. Some would even say it’s better because, generally, every ticket wins a prize.
Tombola stalls, sometimes known as the ‘Lucky Jar’, can provide you with big profits and often for very little outlay. They can even be a drawcard for your next fundraising event (which doesn’t have to be a fete) because they can be run in conjunction with most fundraising events where you will have a crowd on hand.
But let’s start at the beginning
The idea is very simple: prizes are donated. Raffle tickets are split, with one half being stuck to a prize and the other half going into a barrel. Punters purchase their tickets (at your nominated price) which could be $1 per ticket, $2 per ticket, 3 for $5. It’s really up to you and the quality of your prizes. Their tickets are then drawn from the barrel and if they match a prize, that’s what they win.
Now I can hear you thinking “how on earth am I going to be able to source that many quality prizes?”. The answer is, you don’t have to! Not all of your prizes need to be ‘fabulous’. It definitely pays to have some big-ticket prizes, but the options to fill your Tombola stall are endless and the beauty of this is that it makes asking for donations so simple because your supporters don’t have to go to too much trouble to find something appropriate. Often families are asked to bring in filled Tombola prizes, and some schools use zip lock bags for simplicity 🙂
Here are just a few ideas:
- hampers
- gift cards
- bottles of wine
- boxes of chocolates
- stationery
- baked goods / homemade jams
- craft packs
- soft toys
- games
- gardening items
- jewellery (the cheap stuff AND the expensive stuff if you can get it)
- cosmetics
- hair clips and ribbons
- tools
- books
- lego
- bags lollies or chocolates
- photo frames
- pet items
- ‘Try Again’ ticket!
- Voucher for a ride or sideshow game
- A dare
- even canned items or a wooden spoon which can play the role of ‘booby prize’
The draw of the Tombola stall is that your winner receives their prize immediately. No pre-purchasing of tickets, no waiting around for raffles to be drawn. They just pay up and ‘bam’, there’s the prize … or not, if you want to be a little trickier about it or if you have fewer prizes. Not every ticket has to be a winner (you can have lollipops or something similar as your consolation prize) and if your tickets are priced well, your punters won’t mind if the risk is increased. Here are some other ideas along these same lines just in case you can’t find a barrel or just want to be a little different.
Alternatives
Rather than just sticking to plain old tickets in a barrel, we’ve got some alternatives for you 🙂 In these ideas, the concept of matching the numbers to get your prize stays the same but means of getting your number is … a little different.
- Lucky Straws: Instead of the ticket stub going into a barrel, it’s rolled up and stuck in a straw. The straw stands upright in a bucket or tray of sand and instead of choosing tickets from a barrel, punters can choose their straw. While we’re talking about sand …
- Bottle Cap Tombola: Buy packets of plain bottle caps (used for home brewing), number them and drop them into a bucket or tray of sand where people can sift through the sand to find their winning pick.
- Ping Pong Tombola: Get a whole lot of ping pong balls and write the prize ticket numbers on them. Throw them in a box, bucket, barrel or whatever you can find that will fit them all. Punters dig in and choose their ball to win.
- Fortune Cookie Tombola: Great for a big event (such as a dinner) and if you can afford the outlay. Have the matching tickets numbers placed inside the cookies or you could even just have tickets that say ‘you’re a winner’ or ‘better luck next time’. People purchase the cookies and even if they don’t win a prize, they still get to eat the cookie!
Mandy Weidmann is Australia’s ‘Fundraising Whisperer’ – publisher of the Fundraising Directory and author of the Practical Fundraising Handbook for School and Club Volunteers. Mandy believes that parent volunteers shouldn’t have to reinvent the wheel all the time and is passionate about providing resources to make fundraising easier (and more fun).
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