Set up for the show can be done the night before. Each year the school informs the Booster if this service will be available. Directions for early set up will be announced on the application and condition of show.
The Boosters sponsor a concession stand where shoppers and crafters can purchase light lunches and snacks.
Project Graduation host a bake sale as a fund-raiser for the senior after prom party.
The Boosters sponsors a GIFT CERTIFICATE RAFFLE drawing every 20 minutes during the craft show. The “buyers” come into the show and fill out raffle tickets, which are placed in a large box. Children are selected to pull the winning tickets. The winners are then announced over the loud speakers. The winners are also posted at the exit so “buyers” can check the winners before leaving the show. The “buyers” can spend their winning gift certificate at any of the show’s crafters. The Boosters reimburse the crafters at the end of the show for the gift certificates used at their booths.
Student volunteers are used to help before, during and after the show. The volunteers work the craft show as part of their community service requirement. If you need their help let us know. Carts are available to help with loading and unloading. The student volunteers also help in the Panther Pantry and with the Gift Certificate Raffle.
Our Art and Craft Show is hosted in the cafeteria and the gym at Lapeer West High School. We currently can have 100 booths (10 foot by 10 foot.) We hope someday to be able to have booths in the hallways of the school. Our focus has been to have the highest caliber of quality crafters at our juried show.
I am including pictures of the cafeteria and gym set us so that crafters applying to our show will have some idea of what to expect.
In the Gym
Highlights of the most important people at the Lapeer West Annual Art and Craft Show ...... THE BUYERS!
For the past 4 years the Booster's Craft Show Committee has done “gate counts” to track the number of “buyers” and where they come from. We have used this information to target our advertising in areas our “buyers” are from. We have also been expanding the advertising in areas we have not advertised in before. We have had steady increase in the number of “buyers” every year. Last year we had over 1600 “buyers” Last year we apply for and received community announcement on 12 local area radio stations. We also obtained announcement of our craft show on channel 12’s Norma’s Notebook .
We have purchased ad spaces in craft magazines, in local newspapers, shopper guides and on line. (You can connect to the sites we have posted by using the links on the bottom of some of the pages. )
We do use road signs to direct “buyers” to our show, but new community sign restrictions limit where and how we can use them.
Lapeer West HS Art and Craft Show Web Pages
Condition of Show and Application
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