Some people have had experience with stuff like this, and others have been in these kinds of situations. I need advice!
On June 19th we're setting up a booth at the Juneteenth festival here in Milwaukee.
If you don't know about Juneteenth, read here. We will have a booth under a tent, just like you'd see any vendor/info distro at a block festival. We cannot have music and I am pretty sure power won't be available because I didn't request it when we applied, so who knows where we'll be set up.
THE ISSUE:
We basically need something to draw people to our booth - specifically 5th and 6th grade kids/families. We're trying to do this on the cheap, so help me think of something! A game? A mascot? In the past they had wondered about having someone in a lion costume since that's our mascot, but I don't know any lions and we'll be short-staffed that day, so I'd need a volunteer because I need to be out stalking people. What kind of booth games do you think we could play? What kind of prizes? A drawing? For what? Candy? Balloon artiest? Face paint? HELP ME PLEASE!!! I have all this Disney experience, but usually we hire someone's nephew for ballooning - he doesn't live in Milwaukee. And usually I am the facepainter, but I can't do that there. If anyone would like to volunteer to face paint MRA lions (it's really easy) that would be AMAZING!
And if anyone is interested in getting a free MRA tshirt and holla-ing at some shorties, feel free to join us on Friday, June 19th. I can use all the help I can get. I will buy you dinner and be forever grateful.
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