We too had a Spring Carnival this past weekend and it was a ton of work, but it all paid off in the end. In reality, three of us planned it all... me, another mom, and one teacher. The previous parent group paid the teachers $100 each to run a booth, which, in my opinion, is ridiculous. If teachers don't want to work the carnival, then there are plenty of middle and high school students that can help out. If you call around and find some kids who are in National Junior Honor Society, they need the community service hours. Boy Scouts also came to help us this year, and they were great. We made a lot of game booths, like tic-tac-toe, milk bottle toss, bean bag toss, ring toss, duck pond, fishing hole, steer roping (it was a Hoe Down), spin art (finally got the fan idea to work), etc.. These booths were cheap and easy to make from scratch, and we had a DJ, glassblower (kids and adults loved this), line dancing, and basket raffle along with various food. I'd suggest cutting down the number of booths if you're stuck for volunteers, and it sounds like you are, if you're doing all the work yourself. We did all the booths and decorations by ourselves, the teachers only had to create a poster with their booth name and number of tickets on it.
We had tons of people show up to attend the carnival, close to 1000 in attendance. The kids were thrilled, it's such a treat to have a carnival at your school. Good luck [img]smile.gif[/img]