This response might be too late, but here's an idea that I just posted under the topic of Fall Family Night that works well as a fall carnival game:
Cornfield Bowling (or Cornfield Ring Toss)
Materials needed: ten one-quart milk cartons, brown wrapping paper (e.g. butcher paper), yellow and green construction paper, markers, tennis ball or rings (depending on which game you want to the participants to play). Note: the rings could be made from plastic plates that had their inner portion cut out.
Instructions for making the bowling pins or ring toss targets:
1. Fold over the top of ten one-quart milk cartons and seal with packing tape (or duct tape). Cover each carton with brown wrapping paper. (Note: If you are going to be playing ring toss, you might want to add some or dirt inside each carton before sealing them.)
2. Draw 10 ears of corn (the size of the length of the milk cartons) on yellow construction paper. Cut them out and glue an ear of corn on one side of each carton.
3. Draw 20 leaves (just a little taller than the corn) on green construction. Cut them out and glue them around the corn. Note: if you can use colored exact index paper and a copier rather than drawing the patterns by hand, your task will be easier.
4. Draw 10 enlarged kernels on yellow construction paper (big enough to cover the top portion of the milk cartons), number them from 1-10, cut them out and glue one on the top of each of the milk cartons.
To play: Set up the ten ears of corn in the configuration used for bowling pins.
Depending on the game you are using, the players adds up the sum of the pieces that they either bowled over or caught with a ring. In theory, either one of these games involves one turn per player, but you might have to allow extra turns (or move the player closer to the pins) before the person succeeds in his/her attempt to knock down or ring any pins.] Younger players can have their parents or older siblings help with the addition.
Award different prizes depending on the sum. You can figure out how you want to handle that using a range of numbers. One of the prizes could be a small bag of popcorn.
-Patricia, aka Murf the Surf
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