Carnival Day

We aren’t just clownin’ around this week! Every year we do a special event called, “Create your own Holiday”. This year we picked Carnival Day. My wonderful assistant put a lot of this together and it was so much fun.

 

 

 

 
We wanted this day to be as realistic as we could, so we started off with a ticket booth. Using two tri-fold boards, we hot glued them on top of each other and then painted red vertical lines on the boards. We completed this project by adding yellow flags at the top and a sign that showed how many tickets it took to get in. To make this even more fun we gave each child a few of those tickets so that they could pay to get in and play the carnival games.

 

 

 

Every good carnival has fun games to play and ours was no exception. To do this we started off by making signs and placing them in stations outside of the carnival tent.

 

Large Motor Skills





Large Motor Skills- If you have access to a bowling set, this is a fun game that our toddlers loved to play.



 

 



Eye-Hand Coordination

 

 

 

Eye-Hand Coordination-This game was a very easy game to put together. All you need is clothes pins and a bucket to play the traditional pin drop game.



 

 

Sensory Table

 

 

 

Sensory Table- We enjoyed exploring water play as we swam our ducks around in the water. Our class thought it was so funny to make the ducks “Quack”.

 

 

 

 

Large Motor Skills

 

 

Large Motor Skills- To make this bean bag toss you will need a tri-fold board. My assistant cut out a circle shape in the middle and then added a clown face around it. She then drew some balloons beside the clown face. The class was able to practice throwing the bean bags through the whole. Later that day we used the clown tri-fold board as a prop for our photo shoot. Each child was able to look through the clown whole as they gave their cheesiest smiles.

 

Small Motor Skills

 

 

 

Small Motor Skills- You will need pictures of different fish and a poster board for this game. We started off by making a fish scene on the poster board and taping it up to a door. We made a stick with a magnet attached to the end of the line. We then put a magnet on a laminated picture of a fish. The class was so excited when they saw a fish on the other end of their fishing pole.

Just For Fun

 

 

 

 

Just for Fun-What carnival is complete without a face painting station? There’s no need to run out and get some expensive face paint. Although it doesn’t come off of clothing, Acrylic paint wipes right off of skin. So that’s what we used. You might want to be careful to make sure that no one is allergic to it the paint by testing a small part of skin first.

Just to add a little decoration to the ceiling, we t out banner flags in alternating colors of red, yellow, and blue.

 

The best part of our holiday was our tent. This was also one of the hardest parts. We started this project out by tapping a small parachute to the ceiling using scotch tape.

We then needed to add the walls of the tent. For this you will need to start out by cutting large pieces of white and red paper that will reach from floor to ceiling. Before taping it to the ceiling you will need to lay it out on the floor and tape three stripes together alternating red-white-red. We then took scotch tape and taped the paper to the ceiling around the parachute. Repeat this step again on the other side leaving a doorway in the middle. This tent can be a little heavy and will fall easily so you can also use white and red vinyl tablecloths from the dollar store instead.

 

Since we put so much work into our tent, we decided to watch a carnival movie inside. Of course every carnival needs a special snack. We picked up some Popcorn bags from the store so that the class could enjoy popcorn during the movie.

 

This day took some work, but it was priceless to see the excitement on all of their faces.

Hope you enjoy it just as much as we did!