Carnival Party

I was lucky to have some of the moms help me out with the games.

Here is the squirt a ball. Behind that in the big trash bags are the balloons for the pop a balloon. (The blue thing on the side is the tarp we ended up taking down since it kept blowing down)

Goldfish toss and Penny Toss the wood thing in the center of the photo is the bean bag toss (I didn't get a photo of that...I will have to get one)

In this photo you can see the bags the kids made when they first arrived Below in the front sittig on the ground). They were each given a white bag, markers and stickers to decorate it. They each got 25 tickets to play games with, and when they won tickets, they could put them into their bags. I guess I made the goldfish toss a little too easy, (or maybe they should have stood back further) I think every kid won at least one fish. The mom that was running it ended up putting a 3 fish limit on the kids. We had goldfish crackers as a consolation prize)

Still more photos to follow.....

Carnival Party - the games

I forgot to get photos of the games before the party, so I shot a few afterwards. One of my cups came loose from the Goldfish toss: We added circles behind the balloons for the dart board. When they popped a balloon they got however many tickets were on the circle:

The penny toss. We used clear plastic plates that we got at the dollar store and used acrylic paints to paint them different colors. We used the buckets underneath to make it more "kid sized"

Here they had to use a sling shot to shoot a sponge ball through the hoops. 1 ticket for the green hoops, 2 tickets for the purple hoops and 3 for the smallest hoop. We got the hoops at the $ store, and wrapped them with crepe paper (that we have had forever)

Here we used empty salt containers which we wrapped in scrapbook paper!

I must say that the day was HOT. We put up some canopies, but the one kept trying to blow down, so we ended up taking it down altogether.

We also had a bean bag toss, pop a balloon (there were pieces of paper with the name of the prize written on it inside a balloon) they had to pop the balloon to win the prize! A lollipop tree, bank a ball, squirt a ball, ring toss, and a sponge toss!

More photos to follow!

Carnival Preparations continued

Here I am using my glue gun to glue cups to the goldfish toss. It occured to me about 1/2 way through that I should be using my regular glue gun, and I wouldn't be struggling so much!

Here David drilled holes into a board from the pallets so I could spray paint (which was left over from another project-Cameron's halloween costume-the robot-from 2 years ago) the wooden golf tees for a different game.

Carnival Party preparations

I wanted to add some photos of the Carnival Party preparations. We used a lot of "found" and recycled items for the games. We had a few pallets: Two sheets of...Plywood(???) which both had 2x4's screwed into the backs:

We picked up some spray paint from Walmart, and took turns spraying the wood. We covered her face so she wouldnt breathe as many fumes.

Daddy stepped in to finish:

Drilling holes for another game:

As you can see by his fingers, we also spray painted a wooden box we had gotten from a local store. They were just going to throw it out. It was a really nice rectangular box. I forgot to get pictures of the before. The box was painted blue, and another of the wood sheets was painted green.

More photos to follow...