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Quick and Easy Ideas

Buy Something Funny

Get Red Noses for your whole school with our simple Red Nose Deposit Scheme!

Eat Something Funny

Give your lunch menu a funny facelift with amusing names of dishes on offer - why not serve silly sausages and mischievous mash and get everyone to pay a bit extra?!

Scribble Something Funny

Have a display board where pupils and teachers can pay to add their favourite joke or funny drawing.

Dare Something Funny

Sponsor your mate to walk to school with jelly in their wellies or the Head Teacher to wear their clothes back to front. All sorts of fun can be had with this one!

Create Something Funny

Ask everyone to donate their spare change and get students to use the coins to create a giant Nose in the playground or a huge line, with all the coins placed side by side.

Hush Something Funny

How long can your class keep shtum? Hold a sponsored silence to find out!

Top Ideas

Buy Something Funny

What's Red Nose Day without a Red Nose - or three?! The simplest way to raise money is to order Red Noses through our Nose Deposit Scheme and sell them to the whole school!

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Wear Something Funny

Whether it's pyjamas, a silly wig or a crazy hat - pay a donation to come to school wearing something funny.

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Perform Something Funny

Hold your very own talent show at school and ask everyone to sing, dance or do a bit of stand-up! Staff and students can make a donation to perform or sell tickets to a big audience of supporters.

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Bake Something Funny

Hold a cake sale to raise a tasty sum! Just ask everyone to bring in homemade cakes and biscuits to sell at morning break.

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Make Something Funny

Using all kinds of art materials, get the school to make funny creations and then sell tickets to a special Red Nose Day gallery.

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Big and Bold Ideas

Write Something Funny

Get each student in your class to write their favourite joke and put them all together in a joke book which you can sell to the rest of the school.

Snap Something Funny

Students dress up as their favourite pop star, actor or superhero and have their photos taken. They can buy copies of the photos and teachers can upload the best ones onto our showcase.

Answer Something Funny

Hold a quiz with funny questions and answers for staff and students alike - you can even download ours right here to get you started!

Bid On Something Funny

Ask local businesses to donate prizes and encourage teachers and parents to offer their services like babysitting, gardening or car washing. Then, auction off to the highest bidder.

Haggle Something Funny

Encourage everyone to bring in their unwanted gear and hold a car boot sale. Get parents, teachers and the local community involved too. Ask for donations to attend and sell refreshments. You can even hold an online sale!

Play Something Funny

Hold a musical concert with a variety of instruments and funny songs. Invite a paying audience to watch the show and sell refreshments

Primary School Ideas

Sing Something Funny

Hold a comic concert and sing the Red Nose Day Schools Song and other humorous ditties for an invited paying audience of parents and friends. Upload a recording of your school singing onto our showcase.

Seek Something Funny

Involve the whole school in a big game of hide and seek. Conceal some Red Noses in the school, set some clues and get searching.

Read Something Funny

Get your copies of Tracy Beaker's Thumping Heart - a special Red Nose Day story book - and hold a sponsored read-a-thon.

Spell Something Funny

Try gobbledegook, quidditch and definitely, supercali-fragilistic-expiali-docious! Challenge teachers to pay to enter a spelling competition which students pay to watch.

Draw Something Funny

Hold an exhibition of students’ funny drawings and invite others to make a donation to come along and have a look.

Win Something Funny

Students pay to enter a competition to win the chance to be the Head Teacher for the morning. They could hold the assembly, use the Head’s office and even show prospective parents around the school.

Secondary School Ideas

Learn Something Funny

Students make a donation to attend lessons to learn funny things like juggling, clown skills or stand-up comedy. You could even hold a performance so they can show off their new found skills.

Cook Something Funny

Hold a Ready Steady Cook style challenge where teachers compete against each other to see who can create the funniest dish. Pay to enter and to watch.

Style Something Funny

Give students or teachers a Gok Wan style makeover with a funny twist and then let them strut their stuff on the catwalk before a paying audience.

Caption Something Funny

Find a funny photo and hold a competition within your class to come up with the funniest caption. Students pay to submit a caption and the class vote for the winning line.

Sell Something Funny

Set up a break time shop and sell comics, games and other funny things. Check out our online Enterprise resources for some enterprise ideas.

Dance Something Funny

Hold a dance-off with your year group. Classes can pick a style and dance solo, in pairs or as a group. High School Musical here we come! Pay to enter and to watch.

Staff Room Ideas

Guess Something Funny

Pin up the sweepstake poster that's in the Red Nose Day 2009 School's Kit and encourage all your colleagues to pay to have a guess. It’s a quick and easy way to make a big difference.

Auction Something Funny

Hold a staff auction and sell off favours to the highest bidder. Lots could include, making the tea, baking cakes or preparing lunch, washing cars, or giving lifts to work.

Sell Something Funny

Turn your trash into treasure by clearing out your cupboards and holding a staff room sale of old books, clothes and that once treasured Peter Andre album.

Bake Something Funny

Have your cake and eat it too, by holding a cake sale and a tasting competition. Who can bake the funniest fairy cakes?

Ask Something Funny

This one’s strictly for the staff room – have a game of truth or dare where everyone pays to take part or pays more not to!

Spot Something Funny

Pin up your embarrassing baby photos on a wall of shame and staff can pay to spot who's who!

Dare Something Funny

Dare colleagues to get sponsored to do something funny to entertain staff and students. They could wear clothes back to front, come to school dressed as a colleague, or even sing the register!

Say Something Funny

Replace those staff room expletives with something far more entertaining and pop a pound in the swear box each time you xx@@!!** forget!

Settle Something Funny

Let the Scientists take on the Art department at a tug of war; find out whether Geography or History will prevail in a football match. Teams pay to take part, and find out who really rules the school.