Inspired by the Angry Birds computer game and movie, the North Springfield (Va.) Elementary PTA made its own version out of cardboard boxes and rubber balls. Get school carnival ideas, planning basics, and tools to promote your event GET FREE GUIDE Angry Birds Be sure to remind kids to be watchful of falling pieces when it looks like the tower might topple! Parents from the Nijo-Iri Elementary PTA in Livonia, Mich., measured and cut pieces of lumber into a uniform size to mimic the tabletop stacking game. At the PTA carnival at Peninsula Elementary in Portland, Ore., teachers played conga drums in the background as kids took the dare. Use small pieces of lumber to build a frame, then fill it with loose plastic bricks and challenge students to walk all the way across. Corn Cob Tossįor its fall festival, the New Middletown Elementary PTO in Corydon, Ind., had students try to toss ears of Indian corn from a local farmer through holes in a panel painted like candy corn. For extra giggles, add a fuzzy moustache under the nose, as did the Trailblazer Elementary PTO in Highlands Ranch, Colo.

One 'hole' contains a prize while the other is filled with slime. For this game, a volunteer holds two buckets behind 'nose holes' constructed on a piece of plywood or sturdy cardboard. Kids love activities that have an ick factor.

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