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We had never really ever done a "rally day" if you will.

We have tried various 'events' with varying success (pool party, picnic).

The CARNIVAL we created worked well and attracted three new families!

We had a fishing pond with paper fish w/ clips and a pole with a magnet for a hook and the kids won prizes (candy for the small prizes, Sunday School booklets from old curriculum that were nice for bigger prizes and a few party favors for bigger prizes too). We had hot dogs (get lots, we went through 48 in 15 minutes, could have easily have doubled that number) and chips and ice cream cones (almost 2 gallons of ice cream and she was being kind of frugal with the icecream). In our side yard we had an obstacle course. Our regular "lemonade on the lawn" still happened. Also we had a face painting and caricature booth and the teens did a video poll of some very tough theological quesitons. I got one of those balloon tanks and put clusters of balloons on each table and covered the tables with colorful table clothes I got from Dollar Tree. We hung our leftover kites from Pentecost in the trees and it was wonderful. Well attended by all and luckily for me we had 3 new families visiting and they registered for Sunday School.

Sheila


2017 - moved here from the Help Forum in response to Rally Ideas

One year, we had a rally evening a week before Sunday School started--some of this could be adapted to a shorter Sunday morning time frame.  We started with some general carnival-type games. Then we had a scavenger hunt.  Every item on the hunt had something to do with one of the stories we would be covering that year.  Someone dressed up as one of the characters in one of the stories and talked about the items.  Then we finished with an ice cream social.

CathyWalz

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