Can you imagine your school principal wearing all purple for a day? You can make it happen! Use these ideas to turn your school purple:

Ideas for Students: 

• Distribute and post Power of Purple promotional items throughout your community. (attach promo materials)
• Wear purple clothing/pajamas to school or after-school activities
• Place a purple product in your lunch box (ex. grapes).
• Provide all purple snacks at a meeting for your favorite club or group
• Create purple window decorations and display them in your school windows.
• Write your school notes in purple ink.
• Set up a blog on relayforlife.org and invite others to join you
• Display Relay For Life posters in your school.
• Decorate your school hallways with purple balloons and decorations.
• Create cool purple chalk artwork in your school yard
• Hold a contest for the Funkiest Purple Dresser.
• Create a mock Relay For Life campsite on school grounds.
• Get your teachers and school principal to dress in all purple for the day!

Ideas for School Administration:

• Distribute and post Power of Purple promotional items throughout your school.
• Make Relay For Life and Power of Purple activities part of your school’s community service program.
• Place information about Relay For Life and the Power of Purple on your school’s Web
  site.
• Include information about Relay For Life and the Power of Purple in your school bulletin.
• Encourage teachers to have a Power of Purple theme in their lessons
• Work the Power of Purple into your Spirit Week activities
• Promote Building Relay Communities – Sharing the Power of Purple and your school’s involvement in Relay For Life on your school marquis
• Include Relay information in teachers’ paychecks

Fundraising Ideas for Students:

Encourage local stores and businesses to sell and display Relay For Life “Sun and Moon” cards.

• Designate a Power of Purple fundraising day.
• Sell purple carnations to raise funds.
• Sell purple ribbons during school lunch and activity times and at athletic events
• Sell Relay For Life “Sun and Moon” cards to be displayed in the hallways, school cafeteria or library
• Add a signature to your email messages asking your friends to support your team

PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS
Spread the Power of Purple in your community! Print out materials to let your neighbors, friends, and coworkers in on Relay For Life.