Winter Carnival

This afternoon, our local library hosted a Winter Carnival.  Eli had a lot of fun while Aliyah slept even through all the commotion.  We have attended the Sacred Heart summer carnivals the past couple of years that were held outside downtown, so this was a fun indoor carnival to try out.  Each of the kids was given a list of the activities to be used as a punch card at each station.  Once 9 of the 11 games were completed, the paper could be turned in to a container that would be used for a drawing for big prizes at the end.  There were a lot of different options to pick from, and Eli had his eye on a set of Disney toy characters.  I attempted to explain how the raffle works and that only one kid would win each prize and that he had a chance to win along with all the other kids that put their names in the same container, but he was still a little bewildered as to why he wasn't able to leave with the big prize, although he did still get to pick out a lot of small prizes from the other games.  The whole event was very well organized and seemed to draw a large crowd, especially as there was no school today.  

Noodle race cars

Pin the carrot on the snowman:  Almost, Eli...almost...

Prizes galore!
(By the way, what is it with balloons and beads as prizes kids love so much?!)

Lollipop tree

Mini "Plinko"-like game

Snowman coloring activity

Eli's first Bingo experience.  I'm also pretty sure the older gentlemen calling numbers were the true, professional bingo callers.  They seemed to take their number calling task very seriously.