The boppy game was a huge hit at the party, even for the adults \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 The kids also absolutely loved the potato sack races (I bought the sacks at Party City).\u00a0 We made up our own “Go Fish” game and “Match a Duck” game.\u00a0 The disc drop game and spinner game from Oriental trading were very popular with the kids.\u00a0 They kept going back for more.\u00a0 Another game was “The Kissing Booth” which was a large apothecary jar filled with Hershey kisses and the kids had to put their guess as to how many in a bucket.\u00a0 The winner got to take home all of the kisses.\u00a0 The kids won tickets for the games and then were able to go to the prize booth, and they bought their prizes.\u00a0 The prizes were a great mix of vintage toys- silly putty, chatter teeth, whoopee cushions, mustache glasses, jumping beans, etc.<\/p>\n

We had an old radio flyer wagon that we filled with vintage popcorn boxes, and my son pulled it around the Carnival.\u00a0 We passed out hot dogs in vintage wax wrappers that resembled something you would get at the fair.\u00a0 I also spray-painted a wooden dowel and put it on a stand that we stacked hot pretzels on so the kids could snack on those as well.\u00a0 Another big hit was the vintage bags of peanuts.\u00a0\u00a0 The sweets table was very popular too.\u00a0 I used an old bathroom cupboard that was sitting in our garage, dusted it off, and secured it on the table.\u00a0 I set\u00a0 small, glass coke bottles on it to give it some character.\u00a0 I filled the table with apothecary jars full of nostalgic candy.\u00a0\u00a0 The gumball machine was sitting next to it, and the kids would get their pennies from the tickets\/prizes booth and then come get their gumballs.\u00a0 They loved it!<\/p>\n

Each child got to take home all of their goodies, prizes, and also a box of Animal Crackers with the adorable thank you printables from Anders Ruff.<\/p>\n

Olivia absolutely loved her party.\u00a0 She definitely took everything in, and she is still talking about her birthday party.\u00a0 She may not remember it when she is older, but we will always have the pictures, and she can look back and see how much work went into her party and how much fun we had.\u00a0 I wanted to throw a party for neighbor kids and friends of all ages.\u00a0 I think the vintage carnival did just that.\u00a0 We had children from 2-11 years old, and all of them had the best time.<\/p>\n

Thank you for the special printables that added such a great touch to the party.\u00a0 The invitations with Olivia’s picture were precious.\u00a0 ”<\/p>\n