Stores and Fashion Shows

These are two Animal Jam 'oldies' that have been going on ever since I first started and are popular to this day.

Plushie/Toy Stores

1. Obtain as many plushies, toys (from the Phantom Shooter game) and seasonal or adventure prize items as possible.
2. Lay them out in your den, and then advertise in Jamaa Township.
3. People will come and 'claim' the item they're interested in. If you want to make it more 'official' you can have a friend or an alt standing by in the den to make sure everyone knows what they're supposed to do and to prevent 'claiming battles'.
4. When enough people have come (or you're spammed by Jamagrams asking you to put certain items up on your tradelist) you return to your den, put the claimed items up on your tradelist and have people trade for them. It's helpful to have a predetermined price in mind for certain items - such as an item with a recycling price of at least 300 gems or three 'normal' plushies for a rare plushie. Sometimes people are so eager to get something that you'll get some really interesting items in exchange (or, if they're eyeing several things, they might give you a Rare Item Monday item).
5. You can end whenever you like! Since there are often equivalent exchanges you rarely run out of items (though occasionally there's someone who wants ALL your Raccoon and Llama plushies or something like that - but they'll offer something really great for such a large amount of plushies).

Alternatively, you can do an Art Auction (for all those Masterpiece hoarders and/or amazing artists out there). I bet you could get more from an auction than just walking around in trading parties with your Masterpieces listed and, besides, people also just enjoy auctions for the competitive part.

Fashion Shows
1. There's not a lot of preparation - just have themes in mind and if you want to be more fair, you can have judges.
2. Invite people and lock your den so that no one else comes in when you have enough. Let them know a theme and give them a few minutes to make an outfit that matches that theme (such as 'Most like a pumpkin!' and a seal turns all orange and wears a green hat). Sometimes there's special rules such as no changing animals or no rares. When everyone is done dressing up, they can dance, jump or play (depending on what you specified to be the action showing that they are done). When everyone is done there's a few ways to go about it. You can either choose winners (sometimes I've seen category winners such as Most Unique, Non-Member Only, etc. that have specific types of prizes like clothing for one and toys for the other), eliminate the worst outfits, or (as is most common) both - eliminate one or two people and give the winner of that round a small prize. You could even have fun interludes like seeing which person could guess that answer of a riddle to a prize or a little raffle.
 At the end there's usually a larger prize that the all-time winner receives (either advertised at the beginning as an incentive for more people to come or hinted at that so that people partly join out of curiosity).


What's your favorite method of doing these tried-and-true activities? Stay fantastic!