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| Mary-Jane |
Help - stall ideas for Village Carnival!We have our village carnival this weekend (Saturday), which we hadn't expected to be able to attend until a few days ago. It's mainly taking place on the playground area of the Old Village School which is about to become our village hall. Gervase and I are expected to come up with some sort of stall/game with a prize for the 'best of' or whatever. We had thought we might do an air rifle range shooting on targets, but there's not enough room.Anyone got any ideas of what we could do instead? Something simple, possibly with a 'traditional' feel, easy to set up on hard standing and that we could give a prize for the highest 'score' or similar - perhaps for adults and juniors... We'd be very grateful for your help... 
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| sally_in_wales |
How about tossing rubbish into labelled recycling bins? So, things like plastic bottles might not be too hard to lob into a bin but the oddly shaped paper things are harder. Give each person a wast epaper basket with a set assortment and there is a prize for getting them all into the right bins from a fixed distance? Bit like the coconut shy for a modern audience
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| Mary-Jane |
Great idea Sally, but very similar to what we did last year... 
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| Bernie66 |
http://www.fetefun.co.uk/
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| Jamanda |
Splat the Rat always goes down well. | ||||
| Bernie66 |
And its topical on here at the moment 
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| Jamanda |
Great site! I wish I'd seen that before it was time for me to stand down as secretary of Ben's school's PTFA! |
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| Bernie66 |
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=216046
I like the second one, Poo Lotto Put rabbit in a secure pen; mark out a grid 10 x 10; number each square; leave rabbit for a few hours; sell raffle tickets (numbered between 1-100) for 50p; if ticket number corresponds to the square containing rabbit poo, win prize; prizes to be kiddie trinkets bought with donations (Fete organiser is seeking donations from local businesses)
Only with sheep |
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| Bernie66 |
Ah, but you can now stand back and be wise! |
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| Jamanda |
Seen it done with cows too. | ||||
| Fee |
Yeah, there's an annual cow one up in Studley, near where my Mum lives, great fun
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| Bernie66 |
Last two
http://www.fetesandfestivals.com.au/ideasforstalls.htm and http://www.ataxia.org.uk/publications_and_pictures/a_z_fundraising_ideas.pdf 
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| Mary-Jane |
What great ideas! Thanks so much. I think someone else is already doing 'Splat the Rat' unformtunately.
I rather like the Treasure Map one I have to say...although I'll have to get painting rather quickly!
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| Bernie66 |
Check the weather is my advice too!!! | ||||
| Mary-Jane |
Oh yes...
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| judith |
Put Gervase in the stocks and get people to throw wet sponges at him? | ||||
| Mary-Jane |
Or lime plaster him? |
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| judith |
Even better! |
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| Bernie66 |
But that might hurt a little
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| mochyn |
We had a fantastic (and very popular) game at a village event a couple of years ago. My mate Ruth photographed lots os different poos. ABout 25, I think. Each from a different type of animal, from sheep to peacock. Every one numbered, and you had to identify them from a list.
Sally could provide dragon poo. |
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| bernie-woman |
That is such a good idea mochyn - I may have to nick that for the Autumn nature resrve event we have on
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| mochyn |
Go for it: enormous fun! (Especially the preparation...) |
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| Mary-Jane |
Fab idea - but not enough time between now and Saturday...  But that's a must for next year!
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| woodsprite |
We ran a variation of the poo lotto for my boys primary school years ago. It was a cow pat lottery featuring two fresians and the field next to the school grounds!!! We used the pitch marker to mark a grid the night before and drove the cows 2 miles down the lane to school on the day. It was the highlight of the fete. Surprisingly the cow did'nt 'perform' until mid afternoon by which time every farmer (most of the dads) in the village was hanging over the fence with a pint of scrumpy.
Happy memories!!!
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| mochyn |
It's a useful game: it can be done sitting down with photocopied sheets of the pics or on foot with a big board of the original pics. We did it at the tables after a village supper-type event.
Just as well it's a farming communityu, really... I have a feeling Ruth got the idea from a YFC thing originally. You could have guessed that, couldn't you? |
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| hedgewitch |
Pin the beard on the lime plasterer? | ||||
| Bernie66 |
Think someone beat you to that looking at him
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| Mary-Jane |
Ummmm... 
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| hedgewitch |
You mean it's real? 
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| Mary-Jane |
Oh yes...
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| hedgewitch |
What about terrier racing? That's very popular near us. Some events are take it a bot seriously but others have a few lanes marked out and it's a bit of fun. The fun races are mostly for kids with their pets.
Obviously the winner is the terrier that fights everything in sight, then humps everything in sight, then tries to eat everything in sight and still makes it first across the winning line. 
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| Mary-Jane |
That'll be Scruff then - the £2.26 dog...
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| hedgewitch |
Our terrier'd give him a good race - might be an even competition. He met two shitzu bitches the other day. He's never met a female he could... um... reach before and got very excited.
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