Games at fairs for kids

All these carnival games are inexpensive and very easy to set up. Some are D. Y and require just a little creativity from you while others are as easy as picking and clicking to purchase. Do you have some cool carnival ideas to share with the other mommies?

Then please leave us a comment below! Image: Shutterstock. They fold it however they wish to make a paper airplane. Get them to fly their plane along the course behind your stall. Mark their attempt with a white plastic plant label or little paper flag on a stick. Tip - Display the current top distances on a leader board to encourage "friendly" competition and repeat attempts.

An alternative is to have a hoop set at a certain distance behind your stall. Contestants have to fly their plane through the hoop to win a prize. Stand an upturned flowerpot on a tray of marbles. Contestants have to use a teaspoon to pick up the marbles and put them through the hole in the flowerpot's bottom. Hide all the marbles in a certain time to win a prize. Alternatively how many can you hide before a buzzer electric egg timer sounds etc. Have a tray with a large ceramic flower pot upturned in it.

It needs a hole in the base just big enough to let a normal sized marble drop through it. Have a large bowl of different sized marbles to the side, with a spoon. The number of marbles in the pot is counted and noted. At end of event the person who scores most wins. This is very similar to the marble game above but is a neat variation. The spoon is securely attached to a piece of cane. The stallholder had a number of different sizes for kids of different ages.

Gooseberries are then spooned in to the top of the flower pot. This is another simple fundraiser that is very easy to organise. Contestants have to balance a coin on top of a floating lemon for a count of five seconds.

Whatever coin they use they win 5 times the amount. Try it at home - its not as easy as it looks! Ok so this isn't such a simple fundraiser to start, but once you have built your wheel of fortune you can use it in all sorts of different ways at all sorts of fundraising events. The basic idea is very simple- 12 panels on a wooden wheel are given a name, number or picture.

Give the children a small soft ball to toss at the cans to try to knock them down. The children must knock all the cans down on their first try to earn a prize. For older children, fill the cans halfway with water to make them heavier and harder to knock down. You can also adjust the standing line and use different balls for this game.

Write numbers on sheets of paper and place the sheets of paper on the floor in a circle. Use a pen to write the same numbers on slips of paper and place them in a bowl. Have the children stand on a number in the circle.

Play music and have the children walk from number to number. When the music stops, each child must stand on a number.