Ideas for prizes

[valium kilmer]

I'm running an English camp for the next 2 weeks (or specifically, 2 English camps, each a week long) and am hoping to give a prize at the end to the winning team.  However, I have absolutely no idea what to get - and as the schedule and demands of lesson plans/pricing/English camp have all been given within the last week, I've had no opportunity to even do a bit of window shopping.

I'm working in a village in the middle of nowhere, so trips/pizza parties etc aren't an option.  Also, the camps will be divided into teams of 4, so I need something for about 7 or 8 kids (twice - for each camp.)

I have roughly W50,000 to spend (probably slightly less).  Has anyone else been in a similar position - any ideas? 


Oh - and I've also been told these now have to be bought today - but I may be able to delay that slightly...

[dolphingurl2022]

I've done pizza for them, cookies/candy/cookies/other sweet food, ummm...giving punishments to the loosing groups (be careful with this one though cause your students can make up some bad ones)....can't remember what else i've done so far

[mteacher]

Your small town should have some stationary shops.  You could buy small cheapish gift bags (or just use plastic foodie bags) and fill it with small goodies like a pencil, some small candies, a nice chocolate bar (like a Ghana).  You could even include some of those banana or strawberry milks which are only 1000 each.  It seems like a "big" giftbag but it's filled with cheapo's and the kids love it!

[Darkeru]

I don't get a budget at all, so I'm using a different prize. I'm showing them movies on the Friday and doing tasks based on it. Stamps/Points/etc equate to votes in which movie to show.

If you have a microwave in school (at mine some of the other offices have them or you could ask for access to the home ec room), there are frozen pizzas that you can buy. It's even possible to make other foods yourself, like pizza buritto, if you can get to a Costco/similar place for ingredients.

If you can find somewhere to do it, you could get some nice certificates printed out.

[Orange_Thief]

My budget was not bad this year, I had a point system for every activity that they did so they felt like nothing was pointless.

This is what I did for prizes (I also had 2 weeks of winter camp)

1st place (10,000 Won voucher per person *4 people*

2nd place (5,000 Won voucher per person *4 people*

3rd place + 4th place = Nothing

This way it was kept plenty competitive and the students have so far responded really well. I just get the feeling that they wouldn't care about anything unless there was some prize involved, kinda a dismal reality.