Program Ideas

Ways to Maximize Your School's Cash for Caps

1. Set Goals

Start your program off right by setting goals - by quarter or semester - for each grade or classroom, or as a whole.

2. Create Contests

Generate school buzz, more participation and a little "healthy" competition by creating a contest. The objective is to see which grades or classrooms can collect the most caps, either by quarter or semester. Offer a prize to the winning team, such as a pizza party at the end of the school year, (using a portion of the money received from the program to purchase the pizza), an extra recess, a "game time" for a portion of a day or, for parochial schools adhering to a uniform policy, a "wear jeans to school" day.

3. Expand Educational Opportunities

The caps you are collecting can be used for educational purposes. For younger grades and special needs classes, the multicolored caps can be used for counting practice, sorting by colors, practicing math and grouping and patterning exercises.

4. Drive Awareness and Invent Incentives

Post the "Got Milk" mustache posters in lunchrooms, classrooms and hallways to remind students of the program. You can also give the posters away as prizes to the students with the most caps collected, for example.

Prairie Farms - Swiss Valley Farms Division usually carries a variety of "Got Milk" posters with celebrity and sports icons showing off their milk mustache. Schools can hang these posters in their lunchrooms or classrooms. The posters can also be used as a reward. For posters call the Sales Dept. at 563-582-7206.