Carnival Party: Activities

This post feels like it should have come first, but I wanted to get the Thank you Cards in the mail, before I talked about some of the activities.
This is what people saw when they drove up.

I talked about the banner a little in THIS preview post. I am going to be selling all my carnival party supplies, so if you are in the market, let me know. The bounce house was probably the most fun for the kids. I have to point out how crazy it looks though. We have a narrow driveway that opens up right before the garage, so it was a really tight fit! The house on the right in the foreground is my neighbor. I live in a tightly packed neighborhood.

Just because it cracked me up, I took a picture from the master balcony. My house is on the right, neighbor is on the left.

In addition to the bounce house, I asked my talented sisters-in-law to do some face painting. I just bought a cheap set of Body/Face Paint from Hobby Lobby for $2.99 + 40% off. Dollar Tree sells a pack of 5 art brushes for $1, so we went with that.
Tip: My sister in law says you can mix some dish soap with acrylic paint to make it use-able for face paint.

I also bought this photo booth picture from Hobby Lobby. Unfortunately it didn't get used as much as I wanted. It had to be in the back yard, when most of the action, except for Face Painting was in the front. I did get some fun pictures though.

I had bought some funny glasses and clown noses as props for photo taking. No one really used them for that, but they got used none the less.

The original plan was to have some carnival style games for the kids to earn tickets. Then they would take all their tickets and turn them in for a prize(party favor). I realized about 3 days before the party that I had way over-schedule the activities. Guests would have to be at my house ALL day long to do everything. We scrapped the games, but the kids still got to pick a prize on their way out.

Way, way back at the beginning of the post, I talked about Thank-You cards. I used pictures from the photo-booth in some photo cards I found at the Target Dollar Spot. I loved the card because of the red and white stripes. Plus they didn't have any pre-printed writing so I could use them for portrait or landscape pictures. Not everyone did the photo booth, so I am working on getting creative for those people.

My Dad took a picture of my niece in each of the positions and photoshopped them together. I wish we had thought to do that for more people. I think it is pretty cute!

To see all of the Carnival related posts, check out the Table of Contents, here.

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