A Visit to the Penguin Patch® (With apologies to Clement Moore)   ‘Twas the night before the Penguin Patch® Holiday Shop All the Penguins were rushing because this was no time to stop. The boxes were shipped and reorders made ready The kids would be shopping for

How to Have A Successful (and FUN) Holiday Shop! 1. Get Some Excited Volunteers! Recruit some enthusiastic volunteers to help out with your school’s shop. Engaged and excited volunteers make for a much more fun environment for your students to shop in.   2. Wear Your Awesome Penguin

8 Easy Fall Carnival Activities that Won’t Break the Budget As the autumn winds blow in, school carnival season is just getting started. Fall carnivals are a great way for students and their families to engage with their school and have a good time, but they can

Lesson Plans that Make the Penguin Patch Holiday Shop Even Better One of the great educational benefits of the Penguin Patch Holiday Shop is that it teaches everyday math skills and budgeting. Children have to make determinations about what they are going to buy for each person

Ideas for Building a Great PTA/PTO Group at Your Child’s School So school has started and the parent group at your school (PTA, PTO) wants this year to make a real positive impact on the school. Easier said than done, right? Well here in the Penguin Patch we

Did you hear about the No Counting Inventory – Honor System™? No Counting Inventory Claims are not the Same! There are school holiday shops that claim to have a no counting inventory program. At Penguin Patch Holiday Shoppe we hear all the time about the fact that

10 Tips for Getting the New PTA/PTO Board off to a Good Start The 2014-15 school year is about to wrap up and that means there is a new PTA/PTO board about to take office for the new school year that will be here before you know