Carnival Birthday Party Games - Fishing

This booth was the kids' favorite at the Carnival Birthday Party. Cole and my husband painted a fish scene on some large banner paper that we had. We wrapped it around the frame of a soccer net. The pole was an actual Nemo fishing pole, the hook was replaced by a binder clip. My mom ran this booth for us and the kids LOVED casting the pole over the fishing booth to see what they had won.

Carnival Birthday Party Games - Lollypop Pull

This may have been the easiest game I made for the Carnival Birthday Party. I bought a styrofoam ring and wrapped it with tulle that was left over from when I made Kiley a tutu. I had these jelly bean popsicle/lollypop things that I got on clearance at Target after Easter last year. I marked 3 of them with an X, those were the winners who got an extra prize. Everyone got to keep the lollypop.

Carnival Birthday Party - Photo Booth

I had high hope for a photo booth set up at the Carnival Birthday Party. We raided Cole's dress up box and came up with a few great props. I put them all in a bucket and used a staple gun to attach an old curtain to the fence. I put our old point and shoot camera out for people to take pictures but I ended up taking all the pictures with good camera. I love the way they turned out and I included a set of wallet pictures with the thank you notes we sent out.

Toilet Paper Roll Dinosaur Bone

This is a cross post from my TP Craft site. If you are interested in other crafty projects using toilet paper and paper towel rolls then you should check it out.

Dinosaur Bone Supply List: 1 toilet paper roll, newspaper, tape, flour, mixing bowl, paint

Ball up newspaper and tape it to the end of your toilet paper roll.

Tear the remaining newspaper into small strips and mix your paper mache. To make the paper mache I mixed equal parts water with flour, about a cup of each. Then I added in a couple of squirts of glue.

Dip the newspaper in your paper mache mixture and cover the toilet paper roll.

Allow the dinosaur bone to dry, we left ours overnight. Paint the bone white.

Book Suggestion: How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? by Jane Yolen is an amusing and fun book that follows some dinosaur friends through their bedtime shenanigans. We love all of the books in the dinosaur series.

Carnival Birthday Party Games - Basketball Throw

This was an easy game for the Carnival Birthday Party. We used Cole's basketball hoop and some bean bags. I choose to use the bean bags because I knew that balls would be bouncing all over the yard.

Carnival Birthday Party Games - Ring Toss

Game #2 at our Carnival Birthday Party was the Ring Toss. This game was super easy to make. I started with 6 empty Sprite bottles. I choose Sprite because the bottles are clear. I added water colored with food coloring to them. We used pool rings to throw over the tops of the bottles. Since we played all our games out in the backyard I covered a folding table with a table cloth and just laid it on the ground. This way the bottles didn't fall over.

Carnival Birthday Party Games - Duck Pond

One of the games we played at the Carnival Birthday Party was a Duck Pond. For each game I had a bucket with the prizes and directions on how to play the game. This made it very easy for any extra adult to help the kids play. It also allowed me to have everything set up and ready to go a few days before the actual party. For the Duck Pond I inflated a small kiddie pool and filled it with plastic ducks. The ducks all had a B or a P on the bottom. The B ones got bubbles as a prize and the P ducks got playdoh. I also let the kids keep the ducks.

Carnival Birthday Party Invitations

For our Carnival Birthday Party I created an invitation that looked like a string of tickets. I did this in photoshop and used some pictures of the kids sitting in a ball pit. The invitations were mailed in animal cracker boxes with a clown nose and some tickets. They turned out absolutely adorable and everyone loved getting the box of animal crackers in the mail.

Something New...

I've been working on a new site. A few weeks ago I launched TP Craft where I'm going to share all the crafts that we do with toilet paper and paper towel rolls. I'll still be posting some items over here, but I just wanted to make everyone aware of the new site so you can add it to your bookmarks or like us on facebook.