We have a couple of new games for older kids this year at our carnival. One is the "ratapoult". A husband made a catapoult out of a block of wood and some stuff from home depot (no clue how to describe it). It flings life-like rats into a box. Our other one is giant blowup bowling pins that you get to knock over with a ball. We also have a big inflatable obstacle course and an inflatable jousting arena. These work for both older and younger kids. Then there's the always popular dunk tank - this year the principal is sitting in for half an hour!
We did outhouse toss (older kids had to make toliet paper into the basketball hoop from little above the free throw line once they made it into the hoop it would drop into the top of the outhouse which is a card board ref box with hole cut into top. the hard part was it had to drop into the hole. not just make the basket) our kids loved it all ages we adjusted shooting range for age.
Also did barn door surprise (off hee haw) where silly string would be sprayed or prize would (wanted to do the pie but not sure some kids could take it) you can adjust prize to different things like one time bookmarker, ring etc. i just tried to make it different. Kids want the sill string sprayed at them.
Gold Fish pond where they get live fish.
Grand Prize game (bozo show) they liked the bigger prizes at the last bucket. Some tried till they got it.
Wheel Spin (kinda like wheel of fortune) that there is differnt number then had to get the prize out of the box (i did prizes in box so they didn't know what they where and would have to keep trying)
The Plinko is popular this year and last.
This year carnival which just got done 2 wks ago made 8000 itself.
Our school is K-5. We had several members of our high school football team come and do demonstrations of kicking, passing, receiving, and then for 1 ticket, the kids could do it with them. It was a big hit! The football players really did a nice job, wore practice jerseys, brought a PVC goal post, kicking blocks and tees, hula hoops to practice throwing accuracy, etc. The kids lined up for it. We had several middle school kids there who stayed at that one event the whole day.
Hey, Everybody!
We are gearing up for our second carnival ever. We would like to add some games that are more appealing to older students (grades 4-6) this year... Any unique ideas?
(Last year, the hoop shoot, fast pitch baseball throw, and dunk tank were the most popular games for our older students.)
All ideas are greatly appreciated!!!
Kelley
Madison PTO
Mount Vernon, WA
