Once you complete your end-of-year show, you may have a few remaining souvenir merchandise items. If you are wondering what to do with them, here are some creative ways we make use of our leftover dance recital items!

Program Books:

• Distribute A Copy to Advertisers
• Save Copies to Promote Next Year’s Program
• Place A Few In the Lobby for Reference
• Frame the Cover for Display

DVDs

• Play in Your Lobby
• Send to Prospective Clients for Reference

Recital-Specific T-Shirts or Clothing

• Frame and Display in Your Lobby
• Use As Summer Door Prizes

Bears

• Replace the Show T-Shirt with a Logo T-Shirt and Include in Auction Baskets/Giveaways
• Donate to children’s hospitals
• Donate to preschools
• Donate to elementary schools

Flowers or Flower Bouquets

• Donate to a Nursing Home
• Give extra flowers to your parent volunteers
• Give flowers to any of the merchants you used for your recital (printers, caterers, venue management staff, etc)