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Peter Jackson · Joined: 23 Apr 2006

What kind of prizes have you used for high school students? I know the little kids like candy and stickers. What are some good, cheap prize ideas for high school? I have large classes so the cheaper the better...what has worked for you?

cruisemonkey · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:22 am Post subject:

Cigarettes.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I use candy. I buy great big bags of candy and offer one piece per team member for a game. My high school boys act as if I were offering them a free night on Texas Street. I was amazed the first time I tried it. I didn't expect it to work, but I guess it's the symbolic idea of winning something when your classmates don't.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

My HS girls are just like Ya-Ta's HS boys. I've had two 17-year-olds wrestling on the floor over a candy. I've also used Canadian pennies as prizes. Then they fight over the shiney ones. Things they can't get in Korea, like Kit-Kat bars and Oreo cookies, work very well and incite curiosity. Packets of that chewy candy - I don't know if it has a name - are great for rewarding a winning group if you're doing a game. If there are more candies than group members in the packet make sure to get them kari-bari-bowing for it to pre-empt any wrestling matches.

T-dot · Joined: 16 May 2004 Location: bundang

agree, my HS'ers go bonkers for candy.

They would clean my entire classroom with a toothbrush if I offered an ice cream bar.

FUBAR · Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: The Y.C.

Forget Candy... It's all about the chocolate. Especially with the girls.

I_Am_Wrong · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: whatever

my ms grade 1's are all about the candy or chocolate. my grade 2's...well they couldn't give a rat's ass about anything. I could offer them pizza or money and they probably still wouldn't make any effort.

Hotpants · Joined: 27 Jan 2006

Kids are so fickle when it comes to likes and dislikes - I also like to try and punish them if they show ungratefulness at any dislike of anything I am offering them.

Somethings that my kids go wild for: Taco chips; Pringles; Hershey Chocolate; ice cream (although some types are snubbed at - gotta suss which brands are in first!). One kid also goes nuts for Jolly Pong (puffed wheat snack) and those big round flat rice cakes sold from street vans.

It seems, alas, food rules the day.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

This thread reminds me of a grade 3 class I had last year. It was near the end of the year so the kids were almost all 18 years old in western years. The week before had been Halloween and I'd brought a plastic bag of candy. That week I was pinning pictures on the board and I brought a plastic bag of magnets. When I had my back turned a girl snuck up and slipped her hand into the bag to take what she thought was a candy. Was she ever disappointed.

In that class particularly I often found myself standing up there thinking I can't believe you're really 18 years old and would have started university by now in the Canadian system.

sarahsarah · Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Location: Bundang

It's fun to give them licorice and watch them spit it out.

Yeah, candy really works for high schoolers.

Peter Jackson · Joined: 23 Apr 2006

Thanks for the responses; I never thought candy would work wtih high schoolers..

I'll be buying tonnes this weekend. Smile

Cheers