2025 FUNDRAISER: 2,162 MUMS SOLD and $13,843 RAISED

FOR FAIRBANKS ELEMENTARY STUDENTS!

Two students smiling and holding a Mumkin, a large pumpkin-shaped planter filled with your choice of color mums.

OVER 10K RAISED EACH YEAR

At the start of every school year we launch our biggest fundraiser of the year through a partnership with Foertmeyer & Sons’ Mumkins and Mumsters. Foertmeyer & Sons is a local greenhouse that does partner with many other local schools. As a PTO we want to make sure that Fairbanks is one of the very first schools in the area to begin their sales in August and then have an early delivery September date to make sure we are the first to market.

Foertmeyer & Sons strive to provide our Fairbanks families and their supporters with the best quality mums. Their growers carefully watch and raise mums all summer long to ensure that we are getting the healthiest and largest mum! By the time that our supporters receive their mums, they will be hardy, large, and beautiful.

Foertmeyer & Sons mums are grown and are pushed to be hardy and long lasting so that you get the biggest bang for your buck!

'Ohio Proud, Made in Ohio, Grown in Ohio'. logo

New Products FOR Fall Of 2025 Sale!

  • Ruby Mumkin - A jack-o-lantern-pumpkin-shaped flower pot with a face, filled with vibrant red mums.

    RUSTY SR.

  • White pumpkin-shaped planter with red and yellow mum arranged to resemble a carved jack-o'-lantern face.

    RUBY JR.

  • A flower pot with a jack-o'-lantern face filled with pink chrysanthemums.

    GRAPESTER SR.

  • A potted plant with pink flowers in a pumpkin-shaped container with a jack-o'-lantern face.

    GRAPESTER JR.

  • A pumpkin-shaped orange planter with a smiling face, filled with yellow chrysanthemums, on a white background.

    GOLDIE SR.

  • Yellow chrysanthemums in a Halloween-themed orange pumpkin-shaped pot with a black jack-o'-lantern face, set against a white background.

    GOLDIE JR.

  • Orange pumpkin-shaped flower pot with a happy face design, filled with orange and red chrysanthemums.

    AUTUMN SR.

  • A pot of red and orange chrysanthemums decorated with a Halloween pumpkin face, with a white background.

    AUTUMN JR.

  • A black pot filled with a dense bouquet of small yellow flowers against a white background.

    GOLDIE "HAIR CLUB"

  • A pot of red chrysanthemums with yellow centers against a white background.

    RUBY "HAIR CLUB"

  • Pink chrysanthemum flowers in a black plastic pot on a white background.

    GRAPESTER "HAIR CLUB"

  • Red potted flowering plant with numerous small red blossoms and green leaves in a black pot

    RUSTY "HAIR CLUB"

  • A black pot filled with large, vibrant orange and yellow chrysanthemums

    AUTUMN "HAIR CLUB"

  • White potted chrysanthemum flowers in black container on white background.

    White "Hair Club"

  • Three potted chrysanthemums in orange, pink, and yellow on a wooden bench in a garden.

    Mumkin Patch Kids "Hair Club"

  • A metal watering can painted to look like Frankenstein's monster with a sad face, filled with pink chrysanthemums.

    FRANKEN MUM

  • Yellow chrysanthemum flowers in a metal flower pot with a smiling face painted on it, including eyes, nose, and cheeks.

    SCARECROW

  • A purple Halloween-themed flower pot with a monster face, bat wings, and red flowers resembling hair.

    BAT MUM

  • Black cat-shaped flowerpot with orange and yellow flowers on top, green eyes, and a smiling face design.

    CAT MUM

  • A bouquet of white chrysanthemums in a white vase with black abstract dots.

    BOO MUM

  • Three pots of chrysanthemums decorated for Halloween, each with a jack-o'-lantern face painted on the front, placed on a wooden bench outdoors with a house and greenery in the background.

    Mumkin Patch Kids

  • A purple pot filled with pink chrysanthemums on a wooden surface outdoors.

    Purple Harvest Basket

  • A large pot filled with vibrant yellow-orange chrysanthemums placed outdoors on a wooden surface, with a blurred green natural background.

    Autum Harvest Basket

  • A potted arrangement of yellow, red, and pink chrysanthemums in a terracotta pot outdoors with a blurred background of trees and sunlight.

    Tri-Color Harvest Basket

the journey of a
foertmeyer & sons mum

FROM THEIR GREENHOUSES TO OUR SUPPORTOR’S HOMES

MUMKIN FUNDRAISER FAQs

  • Every student at Fairbanks Elementary will receive their very own FundraiseIt store. On Wednesday, August 21 we will be kicking off our sale and will be sending home important information explaining how to participate.


    If you do not receive your kickoff information, you can visit www.fundraiseit.org and click the green online shopping button. You will enter your students last name, part of their first and part of their fundraising group name - Fairbanks Elementary. You will be asked to enter your email address and will receive a link to your online store that you can share with friends and family.

  • This is an online fundraiser only. You can use Visa or Mastercard credit/debit cards.

    Many of our families have found that if a customer does not want to pay with card, they will accept cash or check payments personally and then place the order with their cards.

    Fairbanks Elementary will not accept orders in cash or check.

  • Kick Off: August 21, 2024

    End of Sale: September 4, 2024

    Mum Delivery: September 14, 2024

  • On Mumkin delivery day, Foertmeyer & Sons will send their trucks loaded with carts filled with mums to the school's campus.

    The PTO will have a group of volunteers there in the morning to help unload those trucks, sort the mums into student orders, and sellers will either pickup all of their order or have a friend of family member pick it up for them. Any mumkin orders not picked up by 5pm will be set along the school building for families to pick up ASAP.

    *Any orders not picked up that day will not be monitored or maintained

  • Click Here To Sign Up

  • PICK UP SIGN UP

    Pickup is September 14, 2024 and we have created a sign up for families to indicate when they expect to pick up their orders. This signup will provide us with a general idea of when to have volunteers available to help load your vehicle. If the time you signed up for needs to change you can change on the sign up.

    The times are approximate slots and are not precise pick up times. If you need to shift by a few minutes we understand and understand that we will help you get through pick up line as quickly as possible.

Green slime with dripping goo at the top of the image. This relates to the student event, Slime Time, where they get to dump slime on the principal and janitor for selling a certain amount of items for the fall Mumkin fundraiser.

Students who SELL 10 MUMS OR RAISE AT LEAST $55 IN DONATIONS are invited to join…

2025 Slime Time logo and volunteer reveal. This relates to the student event, Slime Time, where they get to dump slime on the principal and janitor for selling a ceratain amount of items.

PHOTOS OF OF OUR 2025 SLIME TIME COMING SOON!
THANK YOU MRS. THOMPSON & MR. STEVE FOR ALL YOU DO AND BEING PART OF THE REWARDS.
THEY HAVE BEEN COVERED WITH SILLY STRING TWO YEARS IN A ROW, AND NOW SLIME.

2024 - Principal Ashley Thompson wearing a red jacket and jeans, standing outdoors on grass, with colorful silly string raped over her head and shoulders, smiling at the camera. Students got to cover her in silly string for selling items.
2024 - Principal Ashley Thompson and Mr. Steve were sprayed with silly string by students for their fundraising meeting their fundraising item goal.
2024 - Principal Ashley Thompson and Mr. Steve were sprayed with silly string by students for their fundraising meeting their fundraising item goal.
2024 - Mr. Steve were sprayed with silly string by students for their fundraising meeting their fundraising item goal.