Kinder-Magic children's carnival success
Student Leisure Recreation Programming final project kicks off games, activities
Ryan Di Ricco
Issue date: 5/11/09 Section: Life
Students of Kinder-Magic preschool and kindergarten congregated at NIC for games, prizes and fun on May 1.
Rachel Smith and some of her classmates held the carnival as a final for their Leisure Recreation Programming class.
The carnival kicked off with the preschoolers being split up into groups that would move from station to station participating in a variety of games and activities.
The activities included face painting as Smith's mom painted kids' faces.
There was a coloring contest in which kids colored pictures and then compared them.
The bowling game was where the kids bowled and won tickets for how many pins they knocked down.
In Shoes for Cash, the kids played horseshoes and won money chain necklaces.
In hula Frisbee toss, they tried to throw their Frisbees closest to the hula-hoop.
Knock-a-Block is a game where the kids throw balls and try to knock a stack of blocks over and earn tickets.
In the glow stick game they would toss Ping-Pong balls into cups and win glow sticks.
In Grab-a-Duck the object was to grab a floating toy duck out of a bowl of water and the number on the bottom was how many tickets they would receive.
For her final project Smith had to plan and put together an event of some sort. She decided to work with kids because she says kids are more fun than adults.
She teamed up with Kinder-Magic and their preschool class in order to put it together. She planned for 20 kids to come and was helped by six other students and a couple of parents.
The final was designed to teach students in the Resort Recreation Management classes how to successfully plan, organize and manage an event.
"You can only be so organized with kids," Smith said. "They're kind of off in their own worlds doing what they want so it's tough to keep them on task."
The group had all the kids with a leader at each station in order to keep them on task and from jumping around the stations.
"You plan everything to go smoothly, but you always have to expect things to go wrong," Smith said.
Friday morning was the first time Smith had met any of the kids that she was going to be working with.
The kids cooperated with her and split up into their designated groups. They also worked with their group leaders and stayed on task at the stations.
Parents watched their kids participate in the games and socialized with each other with coffee and doughnuts while the kids were playing in the carnival.
The event was open to the entire preschool class .
Rachel Smith and some of her classmates held the carnival as a final for their Leisure Recreation Programming class.
The carnival kicked off with the preschoolers being split up into groups that would move from station to station participating in a variety of games and activities.
The activities included face painting as Smith's mom painted kids' faces.
There was a coloring contest in which kids colored pictures and then compared them.
The bowling game was where the kids bowled and won tickets for how many pins they knocked down.
In Shoes for Cash, the kids played horseshoes and won money chain necklaces.
In hula Frisbee toss, they tried to throw their Frisbees closest to the hula-hoop.
Knock-a-Block is a game where the kids throw balls and try to knock a stack of blocks over and earn tickets.
In the glow stick game they would toss Ping-Pong balls into cups and win glow sticks.
In Grab-a-Duck the object was to grab a floating toy duck out of a bowl of water and the number on the bottom was how many tickets they would receive.
For her final project Smith had to plan and put together an event of some sort. She decided to work with kids because she says kids are more fun than adults.
She teamed up with Kinder-Magic and their preschool class in order to put it together. She planned for 20 kids to come and was helped by six other students and a couple of parents.
The final was designed to teach students in the Resort Recreation Management classes how to successfully plan, organize and manage an event.
"You can only be so organized with kids," Smith said. "They're kind of off in their own worlds doing what they want so it's tough to keep them on task."
The group had all the kids with a leader at each station in order to keep them on task and from jumping around the stations.
"You plan everything to go smoothly, but you always have to expect things to go wrong," Smith said.
Friday morning was the first time Smith had met any of the kids that she was going to be working with.
The kids cooperated with her and split up into their designated groups. They also worked with their group leaders and stayed on task at the stations.
Parents watched their kids participate in the games and socialized with each other with coffee and doughnuts while the kids were playing in the carnival.
The event was open to the entire preschool class .
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