Starting Up a Beauty Contest is not just about the pageantry.It is also about being financially productive. The business goal is to walk away from the event with more money than you spent.
A Beauty Pageant can generate extra money with a couple of different techniques. Adding extra awards is a big tool to have in your Pageant Directors tool box.
For Childrens Pageants I like to add Overall Most Beautiful and Overall Fasion.When the parents register their tikes they can choose to ante up for a slot in the Overall Most Beautiful category. Only the kids registered in this award category will be eligible for the award.
This prize has no standing on who becomes King or Queen. Giving these additional awards helps distribute awards to other kids.
The kids registered for the award all go on stage at the same time. The children hold paddles with a number printed on it. The judges use the number to mark on their sheets. Detecting the Overall Most Beautiful from the crowd is the Judges task.The Overall Fashion prize is given to the contestant with the best outfit.
Bring all the kids on the stage at once for comparisons. If your pageant is very large and you have more than thirty kids on stage it can be a trouble because of the stage size. Too many kids makes the judges job difficult.
When my pageants get too big to offer this award I drop it from the pageant. If you have lots of contestants then registration fees will be great already.
But if you are just starting out and you have a small group of kids in your pageant then these prizes are a great way to earn additional income at your Childrens Pageant.
Yours in Pageantry
Shelly
