Suggestions for running Kids Club Carnival Day

Step 1:

Put the kids into small groups to do the following jobs:

·       Turn one of your tables into a decorated ticket booth.

·       Another group to make tickets. Cut up paper and put “admit one” & colour in.

·       Another group to make signs. E.g., ‘Popcorn” sign, “Games” sign. “Hotdogs” sign etc. so you have signage to stick on your side stalls at carnival.

·       Another group given red & white crepe paper, balloons etc. and in charge of doing decorations.

·       Another group to do some “circus” colouring posters to be put up around room for decorations.

·       Another group to put together printable popcorn boxes.

Step 2:

Face painting – This does need to be a work of art! Just get one staff member to do some basic quick pictures for each kid. e.g., red clown noses, cats whiskers, stars, butterflies, moustaches, (a quick 5 min YouTube tutorial will be enough to get a couple of easy ideas).

Step 3:

Arrange American Hotdogs & Popcorn for lunch.

Step 4:

Set up stalls for carnival. Here are some stall ideas.

·       Setup stall for each of the 4 hire games.

·       Setup Face Painting Stall.

·       Setup another stall for Hotdogs & Popcorn.

·       Setup another stall with one of the staff to be a fortune teller and they can check each kids palm and explain how later in life they will become an AllBlack, Movie Star etc.,

·       Setup another photo stall. Maybe have one staff member dressed as a clown and the kids get their picture with the clown.

·       Setup a temporary tattoo stall.

·       Setup a stall with guess how many lollies in the jar so each kid writes down their own name and a guess.