The Fair with Nothing There  

I don't believe that I have ever been to one that was as bad as this one seemed to be.. I don't believe that I would have stayed for very long.. I know it had to be dissapointing to the children, as they had been looking forward to it, I am sure.. Any fairs that I have been to, and we do have a huge one each Septemmber, are over the top with rides, displays, fireworks, food stalls, games, and so much more.. You end up staying from the time that you get there, which in our case was about 2:00 in the afternoon until after the fireworks which were set off at 10:00 in the evening.. And then you wanted to go back the next day.. But the one that your children went to sounded horrible..

O! how is it your kids got reconciled to the disappointment?.. I think the disappointment for them will me more than that of yours..

And only i wonder that.. though these Fair kind of things, occur in various countries.. but quite often it is the same thing every where, irrespective of places, leading to the disappointment.

Wow, this sounds like a bad fair!! When my kids were small and they had these annual fairs at their school, it was always fun. They had dunking booths, cake walks, the duck pond, darts, basketball dunk, ring toss and all kinds of other games!

The shopping arena was also nice. They rented spaces to local craftsmen/women. So there was a nice variety of vendors to shop at also. You would find handmade clothing, crafts, Avon, other makeup, jewelry, etc.

The school usually had donations for the concession stands of lots of cookies and cakes. That was all 100% profit for the school. They also rented popcorn machines and served hot dogs and hamburgers, as well as nachos.

The afternoon event for the fair was an auction where they solicited donated items from all involved in the school and also the local community and businesses. This was always a huge event and well attended with the auditorium filled to capacity. I can remember buying some nice things at this auction! I wouldn't mind going back again just for the auction!

I'm sorry your school's fair turned out so bad. Maybe they could use some new suggestions for next year. Why don't you call them up and see if you can get a committee going to improve the school fair?

hello gemini_rose

i am so sorry to hear about your disappointment at the fair. what ashame after looking forward to something. and the elementary school where that the children attend here, we do not have a fair like that, it is called a fall festival, and it is held around the last part of october in the year as well. we go from classroom to classroom doing different games and activities. the children love going to that. i won the cake walk a few years ago. whoo hoo! and the lunch room is stocked that night with goodies for all ages, popcorn, cotton candy, sodas, nachos, hot dogs, things like that. now our local fair is held here once a year, and we haven't been back to the "fair" since the year that some man tried to pick pocket me! yes that's right, i was pick pocketed the last time that we went to the fair, and luckily i had my money what i had on me in my other pocket. i immediately told my hubby that that man tried to get my money, and my hubby rushed through the crowd to find this man, no telling what he would have done to him if he would have caught up with him. we didn't find the man that night, and we haven't been back to our local fair either. what an awful feeling that it is to be pick pocketed like that, i felt like i had been raped or something, it happened so fast.

have a beautiful day today!

This sounds much like the lavendar festival we went to last weekend which I told you about in another discussion.
We have a few fairs and carnivals throughout the year here and there. I've never been to a school fair. But every year at the end of August we have "The Great New York State Fair". This fair is so awesome, you literally can spend an entire day there and still not see everything. It's huge! They have 2 concerts each day, a paid one with a really big name in music, and a free one, which is usually a "has been" like the Temptations or Cyndi Lauper, they were here last year. There are livestock shows, street performers, petting zoos, many buildings with things in them, like the dairy building has a 4 foot by 4 foot sculpture made completely out of butter. The horticulture building has flower displays and a sand sculpture as big as a house! The food is to die for, and the rides... there is a kiddie land of course, but the main midway is at least a mile long!
We look forward to it every year.

We have fantastic fairs in this area especially at the school, though sometimes the stalls can be a bit light on items but then a lot of the time this is the parents fault for not donating or baking more but in general it is a pretty good show. Ours don't really have much more than stalls though, maybe a few tombolas and a cocnut shy, definitely no bouncy castles or tractor rides. Sorry to hear that you were disappointed by it and the kids also. I don't think I have ever been to one that has turned out to be a disappointment though. Ellie :D

the last one we went to by the school was a family fun festival on the town common where all the proceeds went to the school funds. there was a silent auction for a fuckton of different things.. a fuckton of raffle offerings (all the sprite waned to win was a ride to school in a firetruck, so we bought her 30 tickets, she didnt win tho) a few tables of different crafty type stuffs, the usual food vendors, pony rides, face painting, and a giNORMous yardsale in the gym of the school where ya bought a bag for a dollar and filled it with whatever struck yer fancy. its where i snagged that solid maple antique rolltop desk for 5 bucks, and a really cool birdfeeder that you put into yer window where the birds actually are INSIDE the house to get their feed, paid 20 for that. the sprite got her face painted up like a kitten and rode the pony, we bought hotdogs and she got some popcorn that was being handed out freebie, and we had a really really nice time. most of the festivals and events the town and schools put on are alot of fun.. my fave every year is the fall festival at Sachem`s Rock (do a google on the place if you didnt learn about it in history class) im lucky enough to live practically a stones throw from the place, and love going there. the area is beautiful, and theres always live music and tons of animals and displays.. presentations, other entertainment. ..;sigh content-like; i love my town

gemini rose we have the orange county fair coming up this month and lasts three weeks with all sorts of produce on display,and arts and crafts building,new inventions, horticulture building, photograhy, and film, paintings building, farm machinery, animals display, four h animal sales and a rodeo, and all sorts of side shows, and oddles of food stalls of all kinds. it would take a whole day to visit all the different venues and its well worth your time to do so. also various bands will be performing and there will be a carnival and midway. everybody and his dog comes to the orange county fair.oo

That was a huge disappointment for you. I wonder why it was so sparse. As far as I have seen, the school and church fairs in Australia are marvellous. They don't really concentrate on rides but there is every type of stall you can think of. Books and crafts and plants and clothes and the food is endless. The countrywomen here make marvellous breads, cakes, jams, pickles and preserves. They also have raffles and various little competitions with prizes. The one thing I have found about Australians is that their generosity with time and money is overwhelming and huge when it comes to anything like raising money for schools or charities.

Wow!! This one does sound like it would not be worth going too. All of the ones I have ever been too in the past have been interesting. Sometimes they may not be as Good as the yr. before, or the last one I went too, but they have all been worth going too. A lot of the problem anymore, is that a lot of them now tend to charge too much or are too far to travel to get to them. With the high price of gas, etc. we end up having to pinch pennies usually to where we never can get there much. I actually miss the Good ole days now as well.