Fundraising or Fun-Raising? There is a difference!

Welcome back to another edition of the Professional Scout Mom. Post Thanksgiving has been busy around our house. We our wrapping up our fall fundraisers and planning Holiday Pack Meetings. Today's focus will be on fundraisers or trying to remember that you can't have funds without fun!
I'm having to remember this myself as I'm pulling a wagon up and down streets in 37 degrees on a Saturday morning. I try remembering things like this is a fantastic social exercise for him and physical exercise for me. As my fingers freeze and I realize I'm the only one who's done this 3 weekends in a row my fun in the funds starts to slip away.
We are all so busy these days with multiple kids doing so many things that it seems so much easier to grab their order forms and bug our family, friends and co-workers for the boys but then it's about the funds you're making not the fun they need to have making their funds.
For our order form orders I make my scout write simple thank you notes which everyone thinks is a sweet touch. I'm also out here pulling a wagon, making sure the nice words are being used and above all I'm sending time with my scout. That is the fun in fundraise is making your scout a part of the fundraising experience which means getting them out even in the cold just for an hour whether it is at your local grocery store or video store and exercise those nice word skills. Most of all make it FUN! If you are having fun they are having and then it's a lot less like work.
So go out and take your scout fun-raising! Till next time!