Class fund non-participants: where do you think the party food comes from??

[Anonymous]

poster at :23..actually even $7 is too much per kid. budget for $5 and under..cut the pizza if it gets expensive.

[Anonymous]

My experience has been very different regarding parental donations and participation in classroom and field trips. Parents have been beyond generous and maybe that is because its a public school system magnet program. The demographic is very different.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder how much the kids really appreciate it. It seems like the room mom is appreciating it the most.

That's crap. In my kid's school, lots of parents volunteer for parties (not just the room mom), and while I enjoy watching the kids, it takes time to buy snacks, come up with an idea for a craft/game, and decorate. It's definitely work, and in my kid's school, the kids seem to love the chance to celebrate Halloween, Valentine's day or the end of the year.

Kids very much appreciate and enjoy it and for some kids its the only parities they attend. I have no issue putting all the work into it and heavily funding it but for someone to then complain their child isn't getting enough slices of pizza is absurd when they will not contribute. Ours are not at lunch and the end of the day.

+1. My kid’s parties are also at the end of the day so they can be dismissed immediately after. Never any pizza. While some room parents do more elaborate parties with fancy crafts and decorations, we’ve had others that consisted of mini cupcakes, salty snack and fruit and a few craft packs or seasonal games picked up from target (25$ Total). Kids love these parties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how much the kids really appreciate it. It seems like the room mom is appreciating it the most.

That's crap. In my kid's school, lots of parents volunteer for parties (not just the room mom), and while I enjoy watching the kids, it takes time to buy snacks, come up with an idea for a craft/game, and decorate. It's definitely work, and in my kid's school, the kids seem to love the chance to celebrate Halloween, Valentine's day or the end of the year.

Kids very much appreciate and enjoy it and for some kids its the only parities they attend. I have no issue putting all the work into it and heavily funding it but for someone to then complain their child isn't getting enough slices of pizza is absurd when they will not contribute. Ours are not at lunch and the end of the day.

+1. My kid’s parties are also at the end of the day so they can be dismissed immediately after. Never any pizza. While some room parents do more elaborate parties with fancy crafts and decorations, we’ve had others that consisted of mini cupcakes, salty snack and fruit and a few craft packs or seasonal games picked up from target (25$ Total). Kids love these parties.

See, these are the moms who know what they are doing. Snacks and some interesting crafts make the kids very happy. The Valentines party my DC had this year was so much fun for DC - no over the top decorations, just streamers and confetti and some heart themed table cloths and napkins and plates. The kids were served pink and red cupcakes, juice, chips, yogurt and a fruit. There were 4 games (a hand made craft and 3 games that the parent volunteers conducted). The kids loved it.

My guess on the budget:
6 Tablecloths - $6
2 packs of napkins - $2
Cutlery - $2
Streamers - $5
Confetti - $3
Heart shapes - $5
Large Cupcakes - $15
Two 12 count Juice boxes - $7
Yogurt squeezies - $7
Fruit - $7
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Food and Decor - $59

Kids crafts - $1 per kid - $20
The three games - each game around $7 = $21

$100 budget, give or take a few dollars. I'm being generous with the budgetting for decorations and food. It could cost $10 less.

[Anonymous]

PP here. Two parties $200. And you still have $200 left over if you collected $20 at the beginning of the year from 20 kids. I would think atleast 10 kids would have given $20 making 2 parties possible. Any remaining amount can be given to the one teacher (in my DC's class, there is only one teacher). If all kids paid the $20, you have $400 - $200 for the teacher and $200 for the 2 parties. Or $100 for the teacher and $300 for 3 parties. I would think most parents give their own gifts anyway in addition to the class gift (at least we do). How else do we show appreciation for all their hard work.

I think the moms complaining about not enough money for the parties must be from affluent schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Two parties $200. And you still have $200 left over if you collected $20 at the beginning of the year from 20 kids. I would think atleast 10 kids would have given $20 making 2 parties possible. Any remaining amount can be given to the one teacher (in my DC's class, there is only one teacher). If all kids paid the $20, you have $400 - $200 for the teacher and $200 for the 2 parties. Or $100 for the teacher and $300 for 3 parties. I would think most parents give their own gifts anyway in addition to the class gift (at least we do). How else do we show appreciation for all their hard work.

I think the moms complaining about not enough money for the parties must be from affluent schools.

We don't give an individual gift. I don't know what my childs teacher likes or doesn't like. The Room Mom collects money for a group gift so we donate to that. The teacher ends up with a larger gift card and something smaller that the Room Mom, who works with the teacher, knows that she will like. And It doesn't feel to me like I am tipping my sons teacher.

The Daycare/Preschool we went to did not allow individual gifts, outside of a card, and required any gift be a group gift because they did not want there to be an impression that some kids were treated better because the parents gave a gift or bigger gift. While my sons Public School does not say the same thing, I feel like the same principle applies. I don't need for the teacher to know what I contributed, or even if I contributed. I am happy that she receives a nice gift from the class.

She sees me volunteering in class when she asks for help and I can be there. I support her by making sure my son does his work and communicating with her when there has been a problem in the classroom (one time, he froze on finishing something and we finished it at home).

As with all things, this works for me. I have no clue if teachers would prefer individual gifts or group gifts or no gifts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how much the kids really appreciate it. It seems like the room mom is appreciating it the most.

That's crap. In my kid's school, lots of parents volunteer for parties (not just the room mom), and while I enjoy watching the kids, it takes time to buy snacks, come up with an idea for a craft/game, and decorate. It's definitely work, and in my kid's school, the kids seem to love the chance to celebrate Halloween, Valentine's day or the end of the year.

Kids very much appreciate and enjoy it and for some kids its the only parities they attend. I have no issue putting all the work into it and heavily funding it but for someone to then complain their child isn't getting enough slices of pizza is absurd when they will not contribute. Ours are not at lunch and the end of the day.

+1. My kid’s parties are also at the end of the day so they can be dismissed immediately after. Never any pizza. While some room parents do more elaborate parties with fancy crafts and decorations, we’ve had others that consisted of mini cupcakes, salty snack and fruit and a few craft packs or seasonal games picked up from target (25$ Total). Kids love these parties.

See, these are the moms who know what they are doing. Snacks and some interesting crafts make the kids very happy. The Valentines party my DC had this year was so much fun for DC - no over the top decorations, just streamers and confetti and some heart themed table cloths and napkins and plates. The kids were served pink and red cupcakes, juice, chips, yogurt and a fruit. There were 4 games (a hand made craft and 3 games that the parent volunteers conducted). The kids loved it.

My guess on the budget:
6 Tablecloths - $6
2 packs of napkins - $2
Cutlery - $2
Streamers - $5
Confetti - $3
Heart shapes - $5
Large Cupcakes - $15
Two 12 count Juice boxes - $7
Yogurt squeezies - $7
Fruit - $7
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Food and Decor - $59

Kids crafts - $1 per kid - $20
The three games - each game around $7 = $21

$100 budget, give or take a few dollars. I'm being generous with the budgetting for decorations and food. It could cost $10 less.

Confetti and streamers? Not only a huge waste of money, but what a mess (CONFETTI?!?!) Offering a teacher $100-$200 for different events on behalf of a class of 20, to me, is very cheap. What games were around $7? What crafts were $1 a person?

[Anonymous]

For those that found a $5 or $6 pizza...where was that and what's the coupon code? Was it for a large or extra large? I've looked at local pizza shops as well as Dominos and Papa John's and they are still about $12 for the extra large, not including tax or delivery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those that found a $5 or $6 pizza...where was that and what's the coupon code? Was it for a large or extra large? I've looked at local pizza shops as well as Dominos and Papa John's and they are still about $12 for the extra large, not including tax or delivery.

Pizza Hut. $5 is for a medium, though. I think the $7.99 large is probably better.
https://www.pizzahut.com/index.php?msclkid=bae82072c6421b8208077c028d92f2c8&gclid=CKPosIeI0OACFUxXgQodsqULkw&gclsrc=ds&menu=deals#/menu/deals

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One slice of large Dominoes pepperoni pizza is 300 calories. Add some juice to that, fruit, cake, or whatever, and you have plenty for a meal. If you want to provide 2 slices + cake and whatever other stuff, you're going to be close to 1000 calories. That means a class of 20 should need no more than 5 pizzas, especially since I'm sure some of the girls would only eat one slice.

If your kid needs more than about 1000 calories for lunch, it's on you to provide that for your child.

Pizza, water, carrots and a cookie. Fairly balanced for a treat lunch and far from 1000 calories. We double slice the pizza so two slices are equivalent to one slice calorie-wise and it’s about 288 calories. Add 2 more slices (2 full sized pieces) is still reasonable for a treat lunch. Tons of these kids eat crap daily with school lunch.

Crappizza + water +crapcookie+ overdue carrots....Please keep the crappy balance for yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those that found a $5 or $6 pizza...where was that and what's the coupon code? Was it for a large or extra large? I've looked at local pizza shops as well as Dominos and Papa John's and they are still about $12 for the extra large, not including tax or delivery.

Pizza Hut. $5 is for a medium, though. I think the $7.99 large is probably better.
https://www.pizzahut.com/index.php?msclkid=bae82072c6421b8208077c028d92f2c8&gclid=CKPosIeI0OACFUxXgQodsqULkw&gclsrc=ds&menu=deals#/menu/deals

They have a $4 delivery fee, making the pizza almost $13.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those that found a $5 or $6 pizza...where was that and what's the coupon code? Was it for a large or extra large? I've looked at local pizza shops as well as Dominos and Papa John's and they are still about $12 for the extra large, not including tax or delivery.

Pizza Hut. $5 is for a medium, though. I think the $7.99 large is probably better.
https://www.pizzahut.com/index.php?msclkid=bae82072c6421b8208077c028d92f2c8&gclid=CKPosIeI0OACFUxXgQodsqULkw&gclsrc=ds&menu=deals#/menu/deals

They have a $4 delivery fee, making the pizza almost $13.

not $4 per pizza, $4 per delivery. If you are ordering 5 for a class party, the delivery fee is less than $1 per pizza. making each one around $9. Or someone can pick it up on the way to the school to set up the party and it doesn't cost anything extra.

[Anonymous]

https://www.retailmenot.com/s/pizza+code

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how much the kids really appreciate it. It seems like the room mom is appreciating it the most.

That's crap. In my kid's school, lots of parents volunteer for parties (not just the room mom), and while I enjoy watching the kids, it takes time to buy snacks, come up with an idea for a craft/game, and decorate. It's definitely work, and in my kid's school, the kids seem to love the chance to celebrate Halloween, Valentine's day or the end of the year.

Kids very much appreciate and enjoy it and for some kids its the only parities they attend. I have no issue putting all the work into it and heavily funding it but for someone to then complain their child isn't getting enough slices of pizza is absurd when they will not contribute. Ours are not at lunch and the end of the day.

+1. My kid’s parties are also at the end of the day so they can be dismissed immediately after. Never any pizza. While some room parents do more elaborate parties with fancy crafts and decorations, we’ve had others that consisted of mini cupcakes, salty snack and fruit and a few craft packs or seasonal games picked up from target (25$ Total). Kids love these parties.

See, these are the moms who know what they are doing. Snacks and some interesting crafts make the kids very happy. The Valentines party my DC had this year was so much fun for DC - no over the top decorations, just streamers and confetti and some heart themed table cloths and napkins and plates. The kids were served pink and red cupcakes, juice, chips, yogurt and a fruit. There were 4 games (a hand made craft and 3 games that the parent volunteers conducted). The kids loved it.

My guess on the budget:
6 Tablecloths - $6
2 packs of napkins - $2
Cutlery - $2
Streamers - $5
Confetti - $3
Heart shapes - $5
Large Cupcakes - $15
Two 12 count Juice boxes - $7
Yogurt squeezies - $7
Fruit - $7
------------------
Food and Decor - $59

Kids crafts - $1 per kid - $20
The three games - each game around $7 = $21

$100 budget, give or take a few dollars. I'm being generous with the budgetting for decorations and food. It could cost $10 less.

This makes no sense. They don't need juice - bottled water is cheaper and healthier. Confetti, heart shapes, cutlery (why if everything is finger food), 6 table clothes - you need 2-4 at dollar tree they come two to a pack. So, with all the fluff you can get a slice of pizza, fruit/veggies, water and cake or cupcakes and that is all you need. You can easily do parties both ways - pizza or not for $100. A lot of us keep decorations or use our personal ones if we are room parents every year. I buy after Christmas so I have a huge stack of things like napkins and table clothes (and some plates) so those wouldn't even get included in the cost as I got them 90% off.

Sometimes crafts cost more, especially if the kids get older but you can get a lot of free games online where you just need a printer/laminator.

You can also easily do it with sign up genius with a few generous parents, which is what I have always done (and usually someone will donate pizza)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One slice of large Dominoes pepperoni pizza is 300 calories. Add some juice to that, fruit, cake, or whatever, and you have plenty for a meal. If you want to provide 2 slices + cake and whatever other stuff, you're going to be close to 1000 calories. That means a class of 20 should need no more than 5 pizzas, especially since I'm sure some of the girls would only eat one slice.

If your kid needs more than about 1000 calories for lunch, it's on you to provide that for your child.

Pizza, water, carrots and a cookie. Fairly balanced for a treat lunch and far from 1000 calories. We double slice the pizza so two slices are equivalent to one slice calorie-wise and it’s about 288 calories. Add 2 more slices (2 full sized pieces) is still reasonable for a treat lunch. Tons of these kids eat crap daily with school lunch.

Crappizza + water +crapcookie+ overdue carrots....Please keep the crappy balance for yourself.

And, you never feed your child pizza or any fast food or ice cream, cookies or cake?

Keep your kid home and problem solved.