School Hoodie Shirts for Cooler Weather

A popular, successful, traditional fundraiser, schools begin selling shirts in the fall to raise money for the year’s activities.  It’s a simple thing, but perhaps that is the secret behind their success.  Using apparel items as fundraisers is easy because they are not only practical but also functional.  They express your support for specific educational organizations but they double as casual clothing you can wear anywhere.  Traditionally sold as tee shirts, you might want to consider school hoodie shirts as a thicker, warmer alternative.

First, you will need to decide on a design for your school hoodie shirts.  Your school mascot is an obvious choice, as are the graduation year for high school students.  As outdoor wear, it may be wise to feature sports iconography from the field, like a football or soccer ball, or track and field events where these sweatshirts will probably get quite a bit of use.  Your design is very important to distinguishing the purpose of the fundraising, which will unite the community who wishes to support it, so take the necessary time to figure this out.

Again, traditionally known as silk screened tees, these fundraising items are always easy to sell, and school hoodie shirts add a little variety to your school’s apparel catalog.  Because students aren’t the only ones who will wear this clothing, this variety is important as it gives you the opportunity to market them to extended family and friends.  Maybe you have family in several different regions in the country and thus experience weather patterns that are different from yours.  Even if you can’t necessarily use a large sweatshirt like this, perhaps it might be just the thing to shelter them from the winds and rain of the northwestern and northeastern coastal states. 

Cotton is the most common fabric for school hoodie shirts, and for school fundraising shirts in general, but you can also probably use cotton-polyester blends, and different fabrications or combinations of wool.  Fleece has also become recently popular, so you may want to design a few featuring the different fabrics to cover all the possible combinations that people could want or request.  All of these fabrics come in a variety of colors or are quite easy to dye, and thus you should no problem accommodating your many orders.

Once you have designed your emblem and chosen your fabrics, your next and final step will be to decide on a price.  How much you charge, of course, is directly related to how much you spend to make them.  Finding the best price for you fundraising inventory is extremely important because the bigger the margin, the more money you have for your school events.  In this case it might serve you best to order your school hoodie shirts online through a small manufacturer or printer.  You will probably find unbeatable prices, and receive the finished product in less time than you think.  Since they can ship them directly to your school, you will also save time and money avoiding their transport from your local shop.