Harvest Festival Makeover...2009

Our Harvest Festival is a great elementary school carnival...
The kids adore it, and it is really a great example of how wonderful our school and community are.
However...it has been the same for YEARS!!! It hasn't changed since Karman was in elementary school...and there were so many games, that needed to be trashed and re-done, and others that just needed a good ole' makeover.
So last year we offered to do just that.
It became QUITE a project for the hubby and I.
Kevin built 3 games from scratch, and did an absolutely AMAZING job. He truly does surprise me....I fully know how talented he is...but things like this, remind me, fully!
He essentially has no training in how to do any of this...but he kicks them out, as though he does it everyday.

Anyway, so we talked a lot. We came up with and designed the games.
Kevin built...I painted and decorated.
They came out GREAT and were a HUGE HIT on Saturday!


This is a Beanbag toss. It is HUGE...about 6 feet tall.

It took me days to paint it...

One layer at a time...and the surface was pretty rough, so it soaked in all of the paint.

Once it was done, though, it was so cool!

This is the fishing game.

It has been a game there for years, but it always fell over, and was just AWFUL as it was. Everyone hated having to work in it.

Kevin built this one with sides, and a top, so that the person hiding inside clothespinning on toys, couldn't be seen. (After the point that this picture was taken, I added sand to the bottom where it is painted brown.)

This one also took a VERY long time to paint. The fish especially.

At the school, each class is given a booth to "run". The parent volunteers for each booth are brought together by their classrooms. Each class then makes a poster for their booth, which become advertisement in the halls for the week prior to the carnival, and then get moved to the gym, and act as the signs to each booth. So our booth was the lollipop tree.

I made the poster...

I had the kids decorate lollipops...and then I put them on a tree.

Ty is pointing to his lollipop that he colored.

Here is the lollipop tree that I made-over.

It was just awful and falling apart before...pretty ugly too.....

So here it is all re-done.

And here it is at the actual harvest festival....all set up with lollipops.

FINALLY......

The absolute hit of the festival...

The very first game I came up was a football toss.

Together this is what we came up with...

It is 7 feet tall...and unbelievable!

Everyone loved it....and it was especially good for the older kids.

This is the best picture I got...the better one is on my cell phone.

There is a really cool stand that he made too that you can't see.

Here is the beanbag toss set up at the carnival...

And the fishing game as well!

It was a really good day...and everyone had a great time!

I am pretty proud or our work. :)