Penny Wishes Make Magic At Your Library
In the magic land of "Dragons Dreams & Daring Deeds" it takes only a little bit of a "daring deed" to make cents out of some of those "dreams."
Let your patrons chase their dreams by making a wish at your magic penny wishing well and use the proceeds to feed some dragons for your summer reading program.
Just build a wishing well from instructions on page 59 of the 2005 Program Manual or grab the very nice and easy to assemble wishing well kit (see photo above) from Corrstore.com ($29.99). Then make some flyers, bookmarks (well4bk.pdf – 194KB Acrobat file), and posters promoting your magic wishing well and listen for the "plunk" sounds of wishes being made.
Decorate your cardboard wishing well to look just like Snow White's Wishing Well. http://www.alexross.com/dbID/298.html
Library Lovers Make Cents For Their Library
http://www.librarysupport.net/librarylovers/makecents.html
Penny Fundraisers
http://www.pennies.org/fundraisers.html
Penny Harvest Handbook Guide
http://www.pennies.org/penny_harvest_handbook.pdf
COINSTAR Locations: Get help counting those pennies by asking local grocery store for help! Fundraisers can utilize a sizeable network of Coinstar machines, which are located nation-wide. The Coinstar network consists of self-service coin counting machines located at the front entrances of grocery stores. Coinstar machines count shoppers' accumulated coins and dispense a voucher that can be exchanged in the store for cash or groceries. They count up to 600 coins per minute. It is important to note that Coinstar machines charge approximately a 8 to 9 percent fee on the total of coins counted. The location of Coinstar machines can be researched through their web site http://www.coinstar.com/us/html/a-home
California Summer Reading Program Collaborative
2003 - 2004 - 2005