The last one I went to was rather neat. We brought one 8" Churn Dash block in Civil War reproductions, a package of your favorite quilting needles, a spool of quilting thread and embroidery floss. In turn when you turned all this in you got a "raffle ticket".
They put all of the Churn Dash on the wall and took away all the other things. The first evening they drew for all the turned in blocks and the next day at lunch, there was a canning jar at each place with a pin cushion on top, filled with a tiny bag of buttons, needles, thread, embroidery floss, some candy, and seven grandmothers garden hexagons already to be sewn together!!