Here's a suggestion for future referrence. Our little school (400) did a carnival year after year after year . . you get the point. Two years ago I saw a decline in volunteerism and suggested we take a year off and plan something else. On the year we did not do the carnival, we had a Family Talent Night! We had never done one nor had been to one. So everything was new. Well, let me tell you. That event ended up being a bigger hit than the carnival. The kids asked to do it the next year, we said we planned on sticking to our decision to alternate. This year will be the Family Talent Night! I can't wait!!!!
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The people that rent the carnival games around here will also provide attendants to attend to the games. Might cost a few more dollars but eliminates xtra volunteers. Also sell wrist bands for all day instead of having someone sell xx amount of tickets per ride. This also reduces the amount of ticket sellers you need. Another way to ensure all wrist bands are profit ask companies to sponsor a carnival games and display a sponsorship sign. This is done the same way a company sponsors a hole for a golf tournament.

how do i make a spring carnival with 1200 middle schoolers, however, it will be career day as well.

how can we make a successful carnivalwith just a handful of volunteers and our community is very small. our school consist of about 600 children and we have very little participation when we do fundraisers but surrounding schools do a carnival and have a great success so we thought well if they can do it then we could too. what i am trying to say is i need advice on how we can pull this carnival off.please email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. thanks