We are trying something a little different. Our carnival is right before Halloween. While most of the games are the same as usual, we are having a theme for each game. Like the Gone Fishing game is Tropical with coloring books and crayons with fish on them, the tatoos-Pirate, face painting- mardi gras (selling mardi gras beads to go with face painting), bowling-Hollywood, cell phone water games, Football toss, sport ball keychains and pens with pom poms on them, get the idea. Some other themes...luau, soldier, cowboy, western (yea, I know same, but we needed them both to fit games, hehe) chinese, farm.... Kind of thought that since everybody dresses up in different "themes", why not try this... We'll see how it goes.
O yea and we do live gold fish. The players toss ping pong balls in baskets lined up like bowling pins (1, then 2, then 3). Get a basket-win a gold fish. Local pet shop gets fish for about .20 and donates bags to send them home in. We pick them up in an old cooler. So far, they all wait till the kids get them home to die. hahaha
Good Luck.
