Carnival!

Friday was the carnival at Tabby’s School.

 

 

The event kicks off with the fun run, just a 1 mile jog through the ‘hood. The fun run kicks off the school’s mileage club, a club where they run laps on lunch recess two days a week and they earn charms for various achievements. The fun run earned them their first charm and the necklace to put them on. The carnival one of the big fundraisers for the year – our school focuses on just a couple of big fundraisers and membership rather than lots of little magazine sales, etc, which I like – and it’s very well done. Outside there’s tons of big blow-up attractions like a laser tag arena and and a maze.

The principal and other teachers staff the dunk tank and some of the food tables and the school’s sponsors as well as some volunteers from the nearby high schools. Inside they have smaller activities like face painting, tattoos, toss games.

We spent most of the evening with some friends – their son and Tabby are in the same class and it was nice for the kids to have buddies. The kids were thoroughly spoiled. They got snowcones and cotton candy (a first, I’m pretty sure) and balloons.

They got their hair sprayed with color.

They cake walked (and won a twinkie).

They (Ben) won vampire teeth.

They stayed up way too late. Had way too much sugar. And way too much fun. We’re already looking forward to next year.

It’s one of the big fundraisers for the year – our school focuses on just a couple of big fundraisers and membership rather than lots of little magazine sales, etc, which I like – and it’s very well done. Outside there’s tons of big blow-up attractions like a laser tag arena and and a maze.