Easter Revenue Generating Events

Community Easter Egg Event

Many schools do an Easter Egg hunt at their school or within their communities. It´s a great was way of giving back a fun event for your students and as a way of enrolling more students. The plan is simple. You purchase plastic eggs and fill some with candy, others with coins, some with free guest passes, etc. When students arrive their friends fill out a form to participate. This would include their name, number, address, e-mails and their friend´s name.

It´s a great idea to do two egg hunts, one for the 4 - 5 age group and one for 6 - 10. It´s important to separate by ages so the little guys have a chance to find some eggs and everyone has lots of fun. When my school was small we held the event right in the school. Once we had 500 or more kids we would hold it in a churchyard or town park. This is just a fun event with very little emphasis on selling programs although we would have brochures and plenty of presentation packages.

The days following the event is when we call the guests and invite them to a free mass intro class the following Saturday or if they showed special interest we would enroll them for a two lesson complimentary trial program. Now you just need to pass your leads to "TALKING BUNNY" and they will make the calls for you.

It´s a NO LOSE event in that the worst thing that could happen is all your students have a great time. The best that could happen is you enroll some new students.

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Family Easter Egg Hunt!

The Easter Egg hunt is one of the most successful events we do every year. Here are a few successful fun factors to add in -

Make 2-3 eggs per student. This will allow each student, family member and friend that attends to find at least 5-10 eggs each (remember some students will not be able to attend).

Get to the park early and throw out all the eggs so when students arrive they are excited so see thousands of eggs scattered all over the park. Divide the students up by ages and have each group go out one at a time to get 2-3 eggs. The older kids will end up trampling over the younger kids if you don't divide it. Make it a race to go get the eggs and come back to parents until all the eggs are all gone. Remember to hide some eggs up in trees and in hard places for the older students. Tape the eggs tight so they don´t break and it is not too easy to just open them to find the special prizes.

We always put special prizes in the plastic eggs. Add in free private lessons, shirts, cardio kickboxing classes, weapons certificates and more. Get a few local business friends, or lead box locations, to donate a few gift certificates.

We always make a few "Golden Eggs" with cash in them $10 to $20. The kids go wild trying to find the "Golden"eggs.

Egg Toss is always a blast and then its time for the Parent/Student Challenge. Don't tell the parents you are doing this. After the egg toss or egg hunt, all the students and friends are on one side and all the parents on the other, its perfect to do a fun Challenge. Have the students bow to the parents showing respect and then start calling off easy techniques. Award the parents points for better stances and more intensity. They will really get into it! The kids will want to win and the parents will have fun doing the techniques. Remind the parents about the Martial Arts Lifestyle!

Sit the school down and tell them how much you appreciate them training with you and what you are looking forward too during the spring and into the summer. Then talk to them about the martial arts-

"Martial Arts is the funnest way to get fit. You get to learn self defense while getting in shape. On top of that you get to spend time with your family and surround yourself around positive people that care about your success." Give all of them a 3 month "Spring" special to get in shape for summer. Plant the Martial Arts Lifestyle seed in them!!