Advertising Ideas
What's Best For Your School?
Are you looking for some ways to enhance advertising for your upcoming dance or fundraiser? Try some of these unique and creative suggestions to put some life in your announcements. P.S. Be sure to get approval from your school's administration to get full support for your creative advertising!
Clock Posters
Everyone looks at the time during class, why not put your posters around the clock.
Costume Association
Depending on the theme of your event, members of your council could wear costumes for a day to advertise.
Hat Advertising
Create unique, crazy hats with your event's theme and information on it. Wear them between classes in the halls. Students will want to know what is going on.
Head Bonkers
Wear a headband and attach information to springs or pipecleaners.
Megaphones
Have students stand at major intersections in your school and announce upcoming functions using a megaphone.
Newspaper Articles and Inserts
Your school paper can always be used as a source for advertising. Use a special insert to explain the important events coming up.
Announcements
These should change daily so that the listener is interested in the message that you have. Make them witty to catch people's attention and make the message more memorable.
Balloon Messages
For major events, have your event information printed on balloons and pass one out to your students. Everyone will blow them up and read the message.
Bookmark Advertising
On the first day of a semester when new books will be passed out, have a bookmark in every book explaining the upcoming events for the year/semester.
Broadcasting/TV Announcements
If you have a high school broadcasting team in charge of reporting the daily news, make sure that they are consistently up to date with your events. Create a commercial to advertise your event if you have TV Announcements!
Carrot (Object) Necklace
Make a necklace and have a big carrot hanging on it (or any other object). Students will ask you why you are wearing it and you will respond with the information about the event coming up.
Paper Plate Advertising
Write important messages on paper plates and tape them to every locker.
Sandwich Boards
Have chapter members wear these between classes to advertise for events. Sidewalk Chalk Use chalk on the sidewalks of all entryways of your school to get your information out to others.
Pop Can Advertising
Get in touch with your pop distributors and arrange to meet them when they fill your machines. Place an advertising sticker on each can and students will read them when drinking.
Spirit Clothesline
Hang a clothesline high in your cafeteria and display an example outfit for each of your dress-up days. Students will have a better idea of how to get ready for spirit week.
Stairway Messages
Use each step as a location to place a few words of the message that you want to get across. Students will read the full message as they go up the stairs.
Stall Street Journal
Everyone uses the toilet, right? So why not create a small handout and tape them to the stall doors in every school bathroom?
Table Tents
Create table tents and secure them to cafeteria and library tables. They might only remain for a day or so, but they will be read.
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