Approved 4-H Fund-Raising Events/Activities
- Ad booklet
- Animal photography at fair (except pictures where person sits on animal)
- Bake sales
- Bovine hoof trimming*
- Cake walks
- Car washes
- Carnivals - backyard carnivals
- Craft items
- Christmas tree sales
- Corn maze (clear paths, appropriate weather conditions, and supervision)
- Dances/dance instruction
- Donation jars
- Easter Egg Hunts (plastic eggs only)
- E-bay sales
- Face Painting (hypoallergenic or allergy-tested paints only)
- Food coupon sales. Examples: Donuts, sandwiches, pizza, Burger King, Sheetz MTO (contract must be approved)
- Food sales & dinners (prepared by 4-H leaders and members)
- Fruits and vegetables raised as part of a 4-H project may be sold as long as the guidelines for producers found on page 7-6 are followed. Groups selling fruits and vegetables from other sources must ensure the organization reputable, such as Sunkist. No reselling of food items purchased from truck farms and informal establishments will be approved. Consumers must be provided the Proper Care and Handling of Fruits and Vegetables brochure.
- Garden maintenance (no power tools used)
- Golf tournaments (no sponsoring of alcoholic beverage sales)
- Halloween festival (not haunted house/hayride)
- Halloween insurance policy sale
- Hay maze (see p. 7-5 for details)
- Hayrides (A competent adult chaperone must be on the wagon during the ride.)
- Horse - Open horse clinic
- Horse - Open horse shows* (Acknowledgement of risk forms required.)
- Horse - Open horse trail ride
- Horse judges booklet***
- Horseman's expo (no horses)
- Jail fund-raisers (people raise their bail to be released)
- Kiddy pedal tractor pull
- Lawn Clovers (Follow guidelines for name and emblem use.)
- Livestock sales*
- Manure sale
- Miniature golf tournament
- Model horse show
- NASCO cash back program (Approved for clubs, not individuals.)
- Newspaper subscriptions
- Open mic events, Karaoke
- Opinion fund-raiser (nothing controversial)
- Pet Shows
- Pet Treats (no animal by-products)
- Petting zoos**
- Photo Calendars (photo release and contract approval required)
- Plant and flower sales
- Plat Books (see page 7-6 for additional information
- Pony rides (see page 7-7 for additional information)
- Pony ride pictures (ponies must be on a lead line)
- Pony wagon rides
- Pre-packaged Food Sales (4-H is not preparing or packaging the food). Examples: Cookies, popping corn, Stromboli, pizza, lady fingers, candy bars, fruit sale, mushroom pies, pies, sausage, frozen food, cheese, gift packs of food
- Pre-packaged product sales - Examples: Flower bulbs, calendars, placemats, plat books, t-shirts, hats, stationary, cookbooks, light bulbs, assorted merchandise, seeds, pocket calendars, dish towels, playhouse tickets, gift wrap, fire extinguishers, first aid kits, chimney cleaner and fire-place crystals, rat poison, RADA utensil sales, Avon, Friendly home catalog sales, 4-H mug sale, Tupperware "book" party
- Public auction
- Recycling (aluminum cans and other non-toxic items)
- Restaurant 4-H day
- Rub-on tattoos
- Save-a-label supermarket
- Save-a-tape register tape saving program
- Scarecrows
- Tack sale/swap*
- Talent show
- Thons - Examples: bike-a-thons, walk-a-thons, dance-a-thons, rock-a-thons, bowl-a-thon, Skate- a-thon
- Trail rides
- Wrapping gifts
- Yard or garage sales
*For events where there may be outside vendors, please see page 7-21.
**No donkeys. Please use sound judgment concerning biting and kicking when including other animals.
