The very first Holly Jolly Carnival was hosted by Mendi Camacho’s Renaissance class on December 4. This carnival was holiday-themed planned for the Bullpups to walk around and enjoy.
Bullpups wait to begin the Holly Jolly Carnival.
The Bullpups are DeLand High students ages 1 through 5 in the childcare program taught on campus by the high school students. This December, Renaissance class came up with the idea of putting on a holiday carnival for the kids. This carnival took place for an hour on the JROTC field.
The Holly Jolly Carnival had games and stations consisting of Wreath Making, Snowball Toss, Face Paint, Lollipop Tree, Rudolph Relay, Tug-a-Santa, Christmas Tree knockdown, Sleigh Rides and a drink/snack station.
The class split up into different committees to plan a smooth event. Each committee had two to four people working on this event for the past three weeks.
Planning involved deciding what games to do and how to play them, along with getting all the necessary supplies and spending a couple of hours setting up the field. The Renaissance members put lots of arduous work into this carnival.
Senior, Isaiah Harper said that his favorite part of planning this event was “... being able to collaborate with all my classmates and create the best experience possible for the Bullpups.” Harper worked at the Sleigh Ride station pulling kids around on a wrapping paper decorated cart.
Some popular games were the snowball toss, Rudolph relay and the lollipop tree. The snowball toss game was manned by Brian Alejo and Liam Nicholson. The two of them got everything ready for the Bullpups to throw stuffed “snowballs” into a Skee-Ball-like target.
Rudolph Relay was set up by Shanaia Galarza, Natalie Baez and Jamil Cunningham. This game was a relay race with the kids running through obstacles while balancing an egg on a spoon. However, the kids had other plans, and ended up just running through the course free-for-all chasing each other.
The lollipop tree was a little “Christmas tree” made of lollipops. The kids took turns pulling a lollipop out of the tree to keep. But there's a catch; if the lollipop had a black dot on the bottom, the kids also got a rubber duck, too.
Bullpup, Eu’nique, said, “[my favorite game is] Rudolph Relay because I love it.” Lots of the kids liked this game, along with the lollipop tree.
Another Bullpup, Kyro, said, “I like the Lollipop tree because I got a duck.”
The whole event seemed to be a huge success among the Bullpups. Supposedly, they could not stop talking about the carnival even after the event took place. Not only did the kids love the event but so did the Renaissance class members.
Renaissance member Passion Bingham has a little brother in the Bullpup program. She said, “I was so excited because Christmas is my favorite holiday...and I got to enjoy this holiday event with my brother.”
Bingham’s little brother, Robert, said that his favorite game was Rudolph Relay because it was fun.
To end out the whole event, they had a Tug-a-Santa war game involving all of the Bullpups. It was a tug-of-war game with all of the Bullpups on one end and “Santa” on the other end having one big game of “Tug-a-Santa.”
Senior Fred McCaskill paints a bullpup's face.
All in all, the first Renaissance Holly Jolly Carnival was one for the books. It was an all-around success both among the little kids and older kids. Everyone had a blast at the event and can't wait for another one next year.
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Photos by Kylie Taylor
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