Thread: Carnival Booth TOT

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Has anyone here ever set up a carnival style booth for TOT?

Since I give away a large and varied assortment of treats...everything from large stuffed animals to OTC goodie bags, I was thinking of setting up a 'spin the wheel of fortune' kind of booth for TOTers under 12. I might re-use last year's 'plinko machine' as a second game as well...maybe for kids under four.

It might mean doing the entire TOT outdoors and doing a haunted carnival set-up. I see lots of black and orange balloons, streamers and a bazillion twinkle lights.

Anybody?

I haven't done that before, but I must say it sounds like a very cool idea... fairness and fun for your ToTs of various ages, and another unique item for your haunt.


Mike C.

2005 we did a Circus theme and had a LOT of fun wit it!!

I think I want to come Trick or Treating in your naighbor hood this year. :-)

A both would be cool. Something for little tots that could be fun is this:

Set up a little pool or something you can up water in. Get ruber rats, snakes, spiders and what ever esle you wish. Write numbers like (1, 3, 5,6, ect. on the bottom with a magic marker. Let each child pull one of the critters out. Which ever number they get, give them that many pieces of candy..

This idea is "Can't Miss". We have done "Raffles" for TOT's the last three years. No stuffed animals (GREAT idea) but DVD Players as well as Books, DVD Movies, and all sorts of candy, nuts and gum.
A "Killer Clown" would be a good addition for the older kids, if you can work him into the scene somehow. Also, a "Dot Room" lends itself well to that type of set-up.

Like the idea of the can't miss thing. That's also why I piched in the pool idea.

We had a 'duck pond' game a few years back. With dry Ice sunk into the water it looked great with spiders instead of ducks. The problem was that many TOTers thought the spider they pulled from the water was their TREAT! Another year, I had "Pull a spider web" where the treats were tied to different treats...but THAT got tangled pretty fast and again, kids thought the spider was the prize and pulled them loose. Maybe the kids in my neighborhood are just exceptionally dim...but the fewer things they touch, the better!

We've done raffles and last year a 'plinko machine' with six different prize categories. I keep trying to come up with different ideas to give out a wide variety of treats. I dumpster-dived a great big plastic reel with heavy PVC at the center. It just BEGS to be a wheel-of-fortune. The hardest part will be to make it sturdy enough to withstand kids spinnng as hard as they can. (You KNOW they will!)

I have decided to do a carnival of disgrace for this years party.

I want to set up a shelving stand with knock-down ghosts to fling a ball (pumpkin?) at , and a portal to hell that glows from the inside , to fish for party bags.

Lots of lights , streamers , candy, balloons and glostix

If you have any inspiration , advice , pictures , ideas , anything , send em to me !

The Haunt I used to work at in Tennessee always rented a snacks trailer every year for their haunted house. They had drinks, hot dogs, popcorn and corn dogs. Plus I think maybe a candy bar assortment.

We're calling ours the "wheel of Misfortune"