Putting Together a Fun Summer Carnival

Instead of planning a boring picnic this year for your child’s school, your church, your company or your neighborhood, why not plan a fun summer carnival?

Summer carnivals can be easy and exciting for everyone involved. All you really need are a few games, prizes and plenty of sunshine!

If you want to plan a stress free summer carnival event, here are some things you’ll need:

* Open Area: Be sure you find a field, a park or a huge backyard for your summer carnival event. You’ll need to be sure the area is near restrooms and has access to electrical outlets and water hookups.

* Choose Your Date: When you’ve found your location, think about what date might work best for your carnival. Think about the local events going on in your area and choose a date when there’s nothing occurring. Otherwise, you might be competing with other events and might not have great attendance.

* Ask For Help: Ask your friends, your kids, neighbors and everyone else to pitch in to help with the carnival. Give everyone a small task and by the end it will great knowing you didn’t stress while planning this event.

Three Easy Games To Have At Your Summer Carnival

You don’t need to spend a lot of money or put a lot of time into carnival games for them to be fun for kids. In fact, most of the time kids could care less about the game. Instead, they only want the prizes being offered! So, stock up on candy and small prizes and give them freely to all players.

1) Wet Target Sponge Toss: This inexpensive carnival game involves a human target volunteer armed with a garbage can lid as their shield. The object is for each child to be given three wet sponges and to try to hit the target (not the shield) with one of the sponges.

2) Bounce House Or Inflatable Slide: If you want something effortless at your carnival, think about renting an inflatable slide or bounce house. These activities are guaranteed to be thrilling to all guests and are very reasonably priced. In addition, the rental company will deliver the item, set it up and come back to pick it up.

3) Penny Dunk: This challenging activity involves filling a fish tank with water and placing two glasses at the bottom of the fish tank. Each player tries to sink their penny into the fish tank by dropping it and hoping it will land in a glass for a prize.