I (along with others) am planning a fall festival for my community, and I need all the help I can get.
Can you give me any ideas for games?
Kids games, teenage games, mid-adult games, and games for much older adults?
I wanted to do a cake walk, dunking booth, and sack races.
Please, any help is much appreciated.
2007-09-10 09:55:41 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Games & Recreation ➔ Hobbies & Crafts
Ideas we used when I was the chair for our Summerfest...
A baking contest (pies and/or cakes)...blue ribbon prizes.
A game where a guy hammers a nail (#16) into a piece of wood in one hit and wins a prize for his girlfriend...stuffed animals or food tickets, etc.
Bossie Bingo...a large grid is made on the ground and fenced in and you sell squares and a farmer brings a couple of cows and puts them in the fenced off area and the first square that gets pooped on wins some money.
Have a craft fair.
Dunking for apples.
Pumpkin carving contest...get a farmer in the area to donate the pumpkins in exchange for the free advertising the contest will bring...ribbon prizes would be enough.
Hay rides.
Craft demonstrations...basket weavers, quilters, blacksmith, etc.
We had a square dance group come and dance for everyone....they were dressed in square dance costumes...it was nice.
Pony rides.
Cutest dog contest...mutts allowed of course...you can have different categories. Costumes and tricks can be categories.
A halloween costume contest and kiddie parade.
A petting zoo with goats, sheep etc.
Antique cars owned by local citizens can be shown...car owners just love to talk about and show off their cars.
Corn eating competition.
If I think of anything else I'll edit this answer.
2007-09-10 11:24:31 · answer #1 · answered by DeborahDel 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was on a team of women who put on Women's Ministry events for our church. We didn't do any games beyond guessing how many candies were in a jar or something but we could sure decorate!!
One of our fall events we made our church gym into a barnyard!!
We got refrigerator boxes (big giant card board boxes) and with tape and layering them (for added support in the back) we mad a huge barn front that was nearly 11' high! We painted it and cut out the barn doors an stuck it in the corner. It dominated the gym!
Then we had a bunch of hay bails all around and a white picket fence circling the gym and a little arch way that you walked through to get into sit.
Oh and of course along with the hay there were also Pumpkins and corn stalks stuck up everywhere!
We decided not to do leaves since they would have gotten ground into the floor but if you are outside get leaves! Even if you have to get them from somewhere else!
Good luck!
2007-09-10 11:57:29 · answer #2 · answered by toonew2two 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The 2 answers given already were great. I would just add face painting or kiddie tattoos. Also, at ours one year we rented a rock climbing wall and bungie jump and a giant slide. These went over pretty good. We had someone make up a putt putt game, a bean bag toss through holes in a board decorated with frogs (fully rely on god), and a balloon dart throw. We had prizes for the games. One of the churches in our community had a skeet shoot. One last thing I can think of is to have an old country store - home-canned items, quilts, anything homemade to sell, etc.
2007-09-11 02:59:55 · answer #3 · answered by PAMELA S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pie Eating Contest
2016-03-18 03:40:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋