Wow! I was right where you are one year ago. You Go Girl. Our school hosted a "Bonanaza" the first time ever last April 29th. It was a huge success. We are a little private school and our student body is only 185. We raised 14,000.00 after expenses.. In March I would have been happy to just break even! We served food, which we had catered in and we planned for food for 300 people..

There are all kinds of web sites that will help you with this. Our booths were silly and in hind site what made us the money were the Dunk tank, face painting, Cake booth (ok, I will brag here) Ours was Awesome " the O Cake Corral" Amazing profit! Stick with what you do best and You will have a great day. Good Luck!

I would love a copy as well of your carnival excel sheet,

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PTA Renegade,

This is my first year planning our carnival and I would love to have a copy of your microsoft excel sheet. I don't know how else to do this but put my email in the post. Sorry, but thanks so much.

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I'd love to have a copy of your program too! My email is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Thanks

we did a carnival for about the same number of people. i have a planning guide that lists exactly how much food we purchased, including the number of prizes, balloons, etc. e-mail me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and i will send you the planning guide.

have you considered a cake walk? our kids loved it. parents donate cakes, cookies and cupcakes. you put 10 circles on the floor and carnival participants walk around the circle to music. when music stops participants land on the nearest circle. you have a hat with numbers 1-10 on it. you pull a number. whoever is on that number wins a cake of their choice.

if you have more cakes, give them out as prizes.

DanMan,

Could you please help me out. This school has 1200 kids, by the way it's a middle school. Im trying to bring some excitement to the school, and funds. My email address is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. If you have time could you give me some advice on your carnival excel program. This is my first year being president. The school needs help with parent involvement.

thanks,
givemestrenth