We offer Polaroid pictures, but for $2 each. This is one of the busiest booths. We thought the price point was too high, but the parents requested we keep the price at $2.
A ring toss is an easy and inexpensive game to set up. You can use several 2 liter bottles and rings from a craft store. Voila you have a ring toss.
Idea I saw over the weekend we may try: use large marshmallows on a stick and mini muffins. Have cups with chocolate and vanilla icing, plates with sprinkles. Use craft sticks as personal knives to decorate the muffins or marshmallows, turn them upside down on the sprinkles to finish it off. The kids get to make art then eat it.
You can do a 'guess the nasty item', and have a bowl of grapes, or spaghetti and stuff. Where people are blindfolded and told to guess what they are. Dunno..childish, but fun.
Another fun idea is a cake walk. We ask parents to make or purchase a Halloween cake and we play musical chairs. We use spooky/fun halloween music (ie monster mash etc.). EAch chair has a number. The kids/parents walk around the chairs until the music stops. A number is drawn out of a bucket and if your number on the chair matches the one chosen, the winner gets to choose a cake to bring home. We charge $.50 (optional) to play and the kids LOVE it. If you want to stay away from food, you can have different Halloween prizes for the kids to choose from.
Last year at the Fall Festival, I brought my digital camera and Picture Mate printer with me; set up a bail of hay, added some colorful ears of corn and pumkins and wound up with an amazing booth. A friend of mine lent me an airbrushed backdrop too, but it would
Hmmm...no food....why not? Anyway, you could do a treasure hunt, pin the stem on the pumpkin, a pinata. I like the paint your own pumpkin idea above, and to elaborate into more craft areas - sand art (in baby food jars) design your own hat or visor. Short creative story contest (about Halloween). Just let your imaginiation run wild!
