Cake-walks are always popular. This spring, we did a cupcake walk (instead of entire cakes) & the kids really liked it.

For my MIL's school carnival a couple of years ago, I made an abominal snowman out of plywood & bulletin board paper. It was a bean bag toss & we have since recycled the board to be Spongebob & a dinosaur.

Our school has a Plinko board (like on Price is Right). It is just a board w/staggered pegs & slots on the bottom w/different prize values. You drop a disk & get whatever prize the disk lands in. This could be painted & named to go along w/your theme.

The muffin tray toss is also a fun, inexpensive game that could be named to go along w/your theme.

Snowball throw--- like the carnival football throw but make "snowballs" to throw.
Ring toss--- toss the rings around snowmen or something having to do with winter.
Pin the tail ---use a snowman and pin on the carrot nose.
Duck Pond--but use something winter related to pick out of the pond instead of ducks. For halloween we are using small pumpkins that float. Try floating something that looks like "ice" in the pond. oriental trading has all sorts of hoilday ducks maybe they have winter ones?
Balloon dart game--easy to make but cut the wood into a shape for winter and then add the balloons--maybe a snowman shape with white balloons.
Bean Bag toss-could do any kind of winer theme with holes to toss thru.
Putting game-cut holes in the bottom to putt thru but paint with a winter theme and putt with something used in that season...putt "smowballs" with small shovels? We will putt with witches brooms for halloween.
Hope this helps!

You can do a variation of 'Hot Potato' by using a foam sphere (snowball) or a stuffed snowman. Just play music and the last one left wins.

You could do "ice" fishing where you hang up the sheet or blanket and kids throw closepin fish over and "catch" something, usually a little cheapie prize or candy.

We did a Snowman Knock Down. We had a total of 6 wooden Snowmen sitting 3 to a row and the kids would throw bean bags at them to try and know all of them down. The entire game was enclsoed on three sides so we didn't have flying bean bags, but the kids seemed to really enjoy it.

Hello,
We are changing things up a little bit at our school this year. Usually we hold a larger Fall Festival but this year we are doing a trunk and treat instead and having a chili potluck dinner before and a bonfire and hayrides afterwards. We have decided to have a Winter Wonderland in January -- basically the same premise as Fall Festival. All our games though are fall or pumpkin theamed. What kind of games can we hold in our gym that would have a winter theme? We are a Christian school so some things are off limits but since it is January we don't have to worry about the S-word (Santa) anymore. Any ideas would be appreciated, we are at a loss!

Thanks,
Cristin