Fall Festival--Candyland theme

We just got back from our church's annual fall festival. This year we centered it around a Candyland theme. We traced the characters from the classic Milton-Bradley boardgame onto pieces of styrofoam, cut them out with a hot knife, and painted them. We strung a grid of fishingline up high in the gym and hung all of the characters on them. We made the squares on the board out of construction paper and decorated around each of the characters. We added special touches to each one, like tying peanuts to the fake plants that decorate the sanctuary platform and putting them on each side of Grandma Nut for her nut garden. We had goodies that the children could win, such as a sandwich baggie full of DumDums for landing on Princess Lolly. The winner of each game received a bag full of candy, but all of the kids got something. We had other candy-themed games, too, like a marshmallow toss and a game where you had to throw Smarties into pop bottles (it was really hard.) We had two big bounce houses outside, and the weather was perfect. Betty did candy crafts with the kids, making cute little houses and trains out of graham crackers. We had about twenty kids that came and they really enjoyed it. I made a video of the game so you can see it. We put a lot of work into it and I was really happy with the way it turned out. We have to take it down in the next couple of days to set up for our Thankgiving dinner next Sunday, but I think I'm going to put all of the characters and decorations on the walls of the family center. They are just too beautiful to throw away.