Carnival Success!

OK there will be no pictures.  Not one single solitary picture.  Because I was so busy my camera sat on the food table the entire afternoon!  But it was fun. A lot of fun!  We took our camping canopy and set it up in the middle of the yard. The kids filled balloons with helium and we tied bouquets of them to all 4 corners. Then we took string and ran it along one side of the canopy.  From there we hung the stuffed animals that were prizes for one of the games.  To KC this made it look like a "real" carnival.  Right next to that we had the game where you threw a ball at the cans to knock them over.  Then there was the craft table, covered in white paper in case people wanted to draw.  We had sand art, mask making and rock painting.  This table saw a LOT of use.  Just over from there we had our umbrella table set up with the food.  Pop corn in little boxes that looked "like it really came from a carnival."  In reality the little boxes were found clearance months ago! LOL  There were slices of fresh watermelon, graham sticks, punch, lemonade or apple juice and freeze pops in the cooler.  On the other side of the yard we had 3 hula hoops of varying sizes with toys to throw in the targets.  Down from there was the "catch a fish" pond.   Not to far off was what Lissa calls "the horsey game" which is kids plastic horseshoes!  Small prizes were at each game station.  Because KC thought about this so long ago I have been able to haunt clearance racks and dollar stores, finding big boxes of crayons, packs of stickers, bubble stuff, etc.

It was amazing how well everything went.  I was just so impressed. And now, at 10 of 6, the back yard is clean the kids are playing with water balloons in the driveway, and the sounds of their happy yells is the perfect punctuation to a perfect day.