Ideas for Village Fete please

Debt_Free_Chick

Can you please give me some ideas for volunteers to run "have a go" events at our Village Fete?

Ideally, then need to be things that the volunteer can organise from scratch and then run. All the funds go to local not-for-profit groups.

Here's two we've covered ....

Crockery Smash
volunteers to get crockery from local pubs & restaurants; build stall; source wooden missiles; run it on the day; collect money e.g. 50 for 3 missiles

Poo Lotto
Put rabbit in a secure pen; mark out a grid 10 x 10; number each square; leave rabbit for a few hours; sell raffle tickets (numbered between 1-100) for 50p; if ticket number corresponds to the square containing rabbit poo, win prize; prizes to be kiddie trinkets bought with donations (Fete organiser is seeking donations from local businesses)

All ideas - modern, traditional or plain wacky - welcome. It's a very rural village so traditional or old-fashioned ideas would probably go down very well. But kids know about current trends, so anything fashionable will be just as useful.

Please .... get yer thinking caps on

Thanks :T

Dora_the_Explorer_5

It's useful to have stuff that can be done indoors if it's tippling down - not unusual in this country. One thing was popular at v. fete I helped organise was chuck a wet sponge at a Parish Councillor ! Grownups really enjoy that one.

Oscar

Make up stocks or similar and get volunteers,school teacher,team coaches etc. to go in the stocks and get wet sponges thrown at them.

See if someone has one or can make one of these winedy(sp?) wire things that you strart at one end and try and get the hoop to the other end without the bell ringing/light going on, charge maybe 20p and win £1 if successful.

zubezube

Face painting always has the biggest queues at our fetes. the next biggest draw is beat the goalie, with a dad or teacher in goal 3 penalty shots for 50p

Astaroth

Guess the weight/ guess how many type things are always popular (winner gets the cake/ jar of jelly beans or what ever the item is)

Slippery pole pillow fights always used to be popular but there is a fair overhead and you need to ensure the operator has sufficient liability insurance - guess you could add bouncy castle too

Basic tombola

Savvy_Sue

A jamjar stall: ask local groups to provide clear jars, any shape any size filled with anything from pasta to bubble bath, kiddies toys or sweets etc, then charge 50p or maybe £1 in these inflationary times, prize every time. Give prize for best decorated jamjar to encourage groups to supply these.

Also Olympic Balloon Throwing. I haven't got time to describe this, and think I might have done so a year or so ago, but possibly on a different board, but again haven't got time to search now. It is GREAT fun, although not perhaps a huge moneyspinner.

IME the stalls that make the most money relative to outlay are raffles, tombolas etc. Face painting is very popular but VERY hard work, get as big a team as you can and give them breaks, poor dears ...

Card tombolas: lay out a deck of cards with small sweets on most cards and bigger ones on the pictures. Punters pick a card from another deck and win what's on the matching card.

jobbingmusician

Chucking the wellie, always a good outdoor rural pursuit.

Do you have veg competitions and the like? The local fete I enter year after year has a HM wine section. Of course it is illegal to sell HM wine, but it might not be illegal to run a 'guess the winner' wine tasting - and might make the event go with a bit of a zing

DSmiffy

Biscuit decorating - use writing icing, sprinkles etc.and get someone to bake some biscuits. Keeps the little ones amused for ages.

Coconut shy - a young farmers assoc. by us rents out a coconut shy and sells bags of coconuts, makes loads of money.

Horse shoe throwing - have to get the horseshoe to cling to the pole which is planted in the ground.

Play your cards right - place cards out in rows face down with the first one face up, players have to guess whether the next one will be higher or lower. Prize if you get to the end of a row.

Gorgeous_George

Human Fruit Machine is my favourite.

Four volunteers required. One with arm in air and other three with sacks of fruit. Pull the arm down to start the 'machine' and after rummaging about in the sack (!), each of the reels reveal their fruit.



GG

Debt_Free_Chick

Savvy_Sue wrote:

Card tombolas: lay out a deck of cards with small sweets on most cards and bigger ones on the pictures. Punters pick a card from another deck and win what's on the matching card.

I've taken on board all the suggestions, but this one is brilliant!!!!

Thanks Sue (or can I call you Savvy? )

Debt_Free_Chick

Gorgeous_George wrote:

Human Fruit Machine is my favourite.

Four volunteers required. One with arm in air and other three with sacks of fruit. Pull the arm down to start the 'machine' and after rummaging about in the sack (!), each of the reels reveal their fruit.



GG

Love this too - thanks :T

You guys are really coming up with the goods .... if you have any other suggestions, please keep 'em coming. This might make a good sticky