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The theme is still going to be a Haunted Halloween Carnival. We have most of the major planning done alreaddy. Below is all the stuff that is a for-sure thing. Construction should start in March. Any comments/ideas are welcome. Thanks!

2 Ticket Booths
Made from: PVC Frame
Size: 8X8
Walls will have black fabric or plastic. A strobe light will light the inside up. Purple lights will boarder the outside. Thinking Bluckys will be the ticket vendors.

1 Food Stand
Made from: PVC Frame
Size:10X10
Walls will have black fabric or plastic.
Orange lights will outline the booth.
Name: The Witchs Hut
Thinking about haveing a spinning witchs hat on the top to use with the sign.
Halloween themed backdrop menu-few props-witch servers (static)

Game Booth #1- The Duck Pond Game
Made from PCV Frame
Size:8x8
Sides,Back and Top will be coverd in purple or black fabric or plastic
There will be numbers 1-5 on the bottom of the duck. The tot picks the duck and then get's to choose from the prize bucket in wich the ducks number is. These will be put in 5 diffrent culdrons or baskets.
A live person will run this booth.

Game Booth #2- Spider Toss
Made From PVC Frame
Size:8x8
Same booth idea as Game #1
Jars will be set up on a table. They will be filled with water. Each jar will have a number of points on them (5-10-15-20-25). The player will have a chance to throw 3 spiders in the jar. After the third toss they get to pick which points they want to use to recive there treat.
This is run by a live person.

Dot Room
Made from PVC Frame
Size: TBD
Wall covering-Heavy black sheeting/fabric. Neon paints.

more to come. this is the major stuff.

Sounds great so far!

oh gosh that sounds like a VERY long list. but it should shape up nicely

Sounds awesome! You're going to be very busy...

sounds great! can't wait to see it!!

Will I want to reach in and take a prize from the spider toss or the duck pond??? Will these be tricks or treats?

Originally Posted by doto

Will I want to reach in and take a prize from the spider toss or the duck pond??? Will these be tricks or treats?

There will be a little bit of both. Every year from our neighbors we get movie gift certificats. We never use em so they will be going in there.

sounds great to me. circus themes go over well

Oh, how fun for the kids! Never thought of games to go with trick or treating, great idea.

Thank you everyone for the comments. Just a few more updates/ideads that came into mind today.

Ticket System-
They sell tickets in a huge role at office max and places like that for pretty cheap. Thinking these would add a fun effect. Of course the guest would not need to pay at all to play they just seem to fit the theme. Do you think that would be fun?

Game Tokens-
I found gold and silver chocholate coins on OT. Was thinking these would fun to use as game tokens. The kids would get to keep them but just for fun it would be an added little treat and fits in with the theme.

Ticket Booth- For the ticket booths we thought about adding the plexi glass window that has the little hole in the bottom. (think about movie theater ticket booths) Would like to be able to have the bluckys move side to side in the booths. A voice recording would greet the guest.

Cotton Candy/Pop Corn/Snow Cown Machines-
We have two snow cown machines alreaddy. However we don't have either of the other two. Looked around on the web but diden't see anything around here that rents close by.
Does anyone know of on-line renting?


Finally since we had college kids and adults that liked are haunt last year we thought we would do something a little more fun for them. George had the idea of doing a big wheel (think the price is right). Not sure how to set it up or what kind of prizes we should give a away.

Thanks for viewing and thanks for anything in advance.

EDIT: For the entrance I'm thinking a balloonn arch from purple,orange and black would look cool. Use to make them when I worked in floral. So it's pretty easy and it would look cool. OR save the time on the arch and give a balloon to the tot's?