The week after Halloween found me in the garage building a Nerf Shooting Range for our school's Family Fall Carnival. Each Classroom Rep (that would be me) was responsible for choosing a theme, putting it together and staffing it during the carnival.
I chose Nerf Shooting Range...cause you know, I'm a Boy Mom, and I knew that Little Man would dig it, and we already had an arsenal of Nerf guns and ammo, and shooting targets is super fun! Easy peasy, right?! Not so much.
I googled and did Pinterest research for Nerf shooting galleries and carnival games in general and came up a general idea of what I wanted to build. Run to Home Depot, PVC pipe, a tarp, spray paint, adhesive spray, zip ties, Nerf gun, ammo, a dry erase board, three days of building and tweaking! All good!
Think again. I build the thing on site and quickly realized that I did not account for wind resistance. Gah! After blowing over on me within 5 minutes, I started slashing my tarp to allow the breeze to go through instead of pushing it over. It worked! Crisis avoided!
Think again. I build the thing on site and quickly realized that I did not account for wind resistance. Gah! After blowing over on me within 5 minutes, I started slashing my tarp to allow the breeze to go through instead of pushing it over. It worked! Crisis avoided!
We bought a back up gun...just in case and of course, Little Man's gun kept jamming the day of the carnival so we used the new one. Whew!
We used the dry erase board as a "leader board" for the top shooters per grade. The kids loved it and it got very competitive! Kudos to the girls who out shot the boys! hee hee
We handed out prize tickets based on targets hit / points and the kids in turn visited the prize booth for cool stuff like emoji pillows, candy and other misc items.
And Bonus! Our booth won the "Most Creative Booth" award! So Little Man's class gets an Ice Cream Party! Woot!
Thank goodness The Hubs helped out because it was a 2 person job! One person taking tickets to play and chasing down overshot darts and the other loading the gun and watching the targets.
Little Man ran amuck for 4 hours. Eek! But he did check in with us every hour, so not too bad.
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