How to Purchase Carnival Games
Whether you're looking to start your own full-size carnival, throw together a casual neighborhood event, collect and sell carnival amusement items, or just play simulated carnival games on your television or computer, there are scores of sources to use to get you started on your hobby or fundraising effort. Carnival games may be as close as the traveling show stopping in your neighborhood or as easy to buy as making a bid and having your "prize" shipped to your house.
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Buy miscellaneous items to create your own carnival games. Buy some face paints, small brushes, small sponges, hand-held mirrors, glitter and a few chairs to host your own face-painting booth. Make or buy a few beanbags. Use some old, empty cans and paint them different colors or the same color, stack them in a pyramid on a table, and you have a ready-made game. Have people try to knock over the cans; supply a few stuffed animals, pens or other knickknacks as prizes. Purchase some pingpong balls and a fish tank or two for another fun toss game in which people can try to throw the ball from a distance into the fish tank. Or, you can use cups by simply gluing them to a hard surface.
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Scan trade publications such as amusementtrader.com. or websites of carnival industry suppliers. A 48-inch-long Skee-ball game costs $495 from carnivaldepot.com; it also lists several beanbag- or ball-toss games for $195 with same-day shipping. Funforsale.com offers a $799 package of five games including tic-tac-toe and Ring-A-Coke.
A 40-by-24 foot amusement arcade is available through amusementtrader.com. For $7,000 you can buy a fully-carpeted game trailer listed on the site, or a $79,995 replica of a C. P. Huntington locomotive.
During the week the carnival comes through your town, ask the manager if any games are or will be for sale. Remember to guarantee that will you will transport your purchase from the site.
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Check websites such as ebgames.com., gamefly.com or gamestop.com, which offer video carnival games for Wii and Nintendo systems, including mini-golf, fish bowl bounces, ring tosses and bottle knock-downs. Nintendo mini-golf was listed for less than $18 on one site, and the new Carnival Games for Wii was listed at $37.99 on another retail site.
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References
- Photo Credit carnival game booth image by Janet Wall from Fotolia.com
