We did a Fortune Teller this spring. It was the most popular thing at our carnival. The kids & even some parents loved it. It was a real hoot. She told 90% of the kids that she saw that sometimes they fight w/their sibling, but they really love them. It was almost sumer vaca., so she said she saw people going on a trip. Really generic stuff, but they ALL totally bought it. Talk about the upcoming holidays, remind them to be good, say you see them working hard in school-but is there one subject they are having a little trouble with?(chances are,they will fill in the blank)"...Oh yes...if you keep working hard at it, you'll get it...", tell them you see them making a new friend, you can always ask them if there is something special they would like to know about, if you get really stuck, you can just tell them it's getting cloudy-you cannot see anymore.
you are so lucky to live in an area where it's OK to have FUN on Halloween... our school is so afraid they may offend someone, that we have Harvest Parties ( not Halloween), Winter Parties, Friendship Day ( valentines day) and forget Easter... it's just abusrd. Mind you 99.5% of our students are Christians.
no ghosts, black cats or witches, no hearts, no santas or christmas trees. I am just so tired of gyping the VAST majority in fear of offending that .5% minority.
My mom did this when i was a kid. And I am doing it this year at our church. She told me for children to make it things like they will do well in school, their special project will be fab., they will have a prosperous life, things like that. If you KNOW the child and you KNOW that something is going to happen to them like thier birthday or something then you can illaburate on it.
We're having our School's Octoberfest next weekend. This is a family event that the PTO also makes a small profit from. The children go to five classrooms where they do a craft and a game. They give tickets that were purchased when they came in. There is also a teacher's cookie decorating booth, a small haunted house, face painting, and a cake walk every 15 minutes. All the parent's take turns helping throughout the afternoon, and bring in the cakes.
I saw suggestions for a Fortune tellers booth on a different message board. Everyone is excited about it. I volunteered to set it up and run it. Of course, I'm going overboard in setting it up making an actual simple wood frame, covering it with black cloth, having halloween lights, flickering pumpkins, and a round draped table with a changing color light under a frosted lighting globe. I'm also making a fortune teller's costume.
It should be real cool, but I just realized, I know very little about the FORTUNE TELLING PART.
PLEASE give me any suggestions you may have.
