With Joseph's sister and her family in town from North Carolina we needed something fantastic to celebrate our time together. Flori suggested a "family carnival" a few months back where each sibling would be in charge of a booth or activity. Everyone pulled together great ideas and
when we attended the carnival Monday evening it was a huge success--yay! Here's how we pulled it off (in case anyone needs a great idea for a family party with lots of kids and equally silly adults around to join in the fun!)Setting: We met in John and Krista's big and shady backyard where Nanny and Grandpa had borrowed a neighbor's darling lemonade stand and tied tons of helium balloons to it.
Food: Corn-dogs, veggies and dip, fruit, and chips. Plus, Jim and Luci provided snow-cones for dessert as their carnival "booth."
Activities:1) Face-painting (which lasted off and on throughout the night)
2) Three-legged race & bean-bag toss relay
3) Penny toss into floating bowls for "penny prizes" (this is the one Joe and I ran so no time for pics)4) Water ballooning any chosen uncle (watch out Bob!)
5) Picture posing in silly farm cut-outs (can you spot my smiley Beans?)
6) Raffle (Each time we participated in a game we could write our name on a ticket and add it to the raffle bowl. There was an adult bowl for adult prizes and a kid bowl for kid prizes.)
7) Fishing Pond
8) Pinata
What a party we had! The kids were all so excited and loved playing the games together and getting totally involved in each activity. Thank you to all the LeBarons for making the carnival happen--we loved it :)
5 comments:
oh cute. I need to post on this too. great pics too.
I want a butterfly painted on my face! This is such a fun and creative idea for such a big family.
This is a fantastic idea. I will have to tell Ben's fam about it. I mean, if/when we are all in the same place at the same time. So so fun! I especially love the balloon toss at Uncle Bob.
PS- where did Caresy's dress go by the end of the night?
Oh yes--the little lady got soaking wet from playing around in the wading pool so we just ditched the dress for the last hour or so :)
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