Elementary Carnivals Draw Students From Across The District Despite Rain

Kids Playing Carnival Games at the Edgewood GymAnother rainy Saturday on the day before Mother’s Day, didn’t dampen the fun a the five elementary school fairs on Saturday May 12. Elementary students from across the district to celebrated with games, activities, food, and more.

At the Edgewood fair, indoor activities took place in classrooms on the first floor of the first floor of the building, and included sand art, bead art to make bracelets, and temporary tattoos/face paint. This year’s theme revolved around rocks, so a rock museum was set up inside the old meeting room where students could learn about and explore the earth science behind topics including glacial formations. The gym was set up to have classic carnival that would normally take place outside with hacky sack and ring toss. As always, a raffle took place where students won items such as toys and DVD’s, and a flea market was set up for parents, selling clothes, shoes, and other household items. Sticking with the rock theme, the bake sale sold geode and crystal cupcakes along with regular baked good items. There was also a truck outside selling ices.

The Bubble Bus at Fox MeadowFox Meadow students showed their pride by nearly all wearing their fair-specific Fox Meadow shirts to the event. Fox Meadow decided to have a bit more of the fair outdoors, and decided to cater it with a mobile pizza truck that served Wood Fired Pizza to students and parents. Fox Meadow also hired a bubble bus, which produced hundreds of bubbles to allow the kids to submerge themselves in a sea of bubbles. A DJ was set up outside who let the kids sing karaoke into a loudspeaker for the whole school to hear. Similar carnival games to Edgewood took place indoors.

Greenacres was filled with high spirits as kids took part in a variety of activities indoors. In the gyms, different carnival booths were set up such as balloon pop and basketball. There was even a booth that offered archery, where kids used plastic bow and arrows to hit floating balls, sponsored by Camp Mohawk. In the lunchroom, temporary tattoos and glitter tattoos were offered and all the proceeds were donated to the Paulie Strong Foundation. Greenacres clothing was also for sale at the fair. The cotton candy machine was a big hit. The fair was completed with a DJ in the gyms playing songs for everyone to enjoy.The Greenacres Fair

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Here are some more pictures from the different carnivals:

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