HANDY COMPETITIONS
MONEYMAKERS FOR BAZAARS
THEY WILL BRING IN PENNIES
These tried ideas will bring in a few extra pennies at. fair, fete or bazaar. Have a knitting competition: Ta'ke with you a piece of plain knitting, say 100 stitches on No. (> needles with about f> inches alrcad.v done, charge one penny entry and time competitors with the secondhand of a watch.
The player who can knit 100 stitches in the quickest time receives a small reward. Keep an eye on the knitting each time* it is
ha ruled back to you, as some knit-* ters work very tightlj'T When this happened I asked a friend who knils vapidly to work a loose row for me. Wrap a novel securely and charge 3d for guessing how many pages there arc in the book. This is a very good, one for the men. who get interested in it... I got over 5s at quite a small i'air. Get some "dolly pegs," scraps of silks and ribbons and a good many needles and cotton. Charge 3d entry and. give to each competitor a peg (number, and noted in a book with a corresponding number and that competitor's name), about four small pieces of material and laeo or ribbon. Set all competitors around a table on which place the needles and cotton, and. tell them they have got S minutes to dress their dolly. Arrange finished "dolls" on a table and ask someone who has not watched the dressing process to judge,
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 16, 20 October 1942, Page 6
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