How about asking the high school art class (buy them the wood) to paint a back drop for you? Hotdogs, smores trail mix... The toilet toss. Its where you throw a roll of toilet paper through the seat. You can hang it up with enough room behind it for the t.p. to go through or build an outhouse for it.

I'm beginning to plan an end of the year family night with "getting back to nature" as the theme. Families will rotate through 5 stations throughout the evening. Our local nature center will do one station on identifying Illinois wildlife, the Water and Conservation people will play a water game at their station, Illinois Wildlife Bingo at another - well, you get the idea. Anyone out there have any great ideas? I'd also like to have a nature backdrop so families can have a picture taken to be displayed in the school hall for a week and then sent home. Any ideas there? Nature themed food? Everyone on this board seems to share such good ideas - please send some this way if you can. Please and thank you!