We hope you plan to join us for a day of family fun, on Saturday, October 28, from 1 – 5 pm at the Mission Avenue Open School Fall Carnival and Caine’s Arcade. The carnival will feature carnival games, face painting, live music, food trucks, an obstacle course/slide bounce house (open to kids 4 and older), and more!
Entry to the carnival is free, but tickets are required for most activities. Pre-order your tickets by Friday October 28 for discounted ticket pricing. You can order your tickets online or fill out this order form and drop it off in the office. Pre-ordered tickets will be available to pick up at the ticket booth on day of the carnival. Tickets can also be purchased on site at the carnival.
For planning pre-order purchases, the prices of the attractions are as follows:
We can’t make this happen without YOU. Our game and concessions booths are staffed by Mission parents, grandparents, alum, and any other community members who would like to help out!! Have a responsible middle or high schooler who needs community service hours? Sign them up!
Each class is responsible for staffing one booth.
We gladly accept prizes, including small toys, individually wrapped candy, stickers, or really any small, inexpensive goodies you think your kids would enjoy! Drop your donations off in the box outside the office!
Think musical chairs, but with baked goods as prizes!! This is one of our most popular games every year! Drop off baked goods in the MP Room on Friday October 27.
Are you crafty? Do you have something special and unique that you make? Do you have a stockpile of things that you think others would love to have? Be a vendor at the Mission Carnival and share your talents! Come set up a table, share with the community and share your stuff. Sign up here.
Caine’s Arcade is a free activity, held in conjunction with the Mission Avenue Fall Carnival, where students create, imagine and build with cardboard and other recycled materials. Kids can bring their own cardboard arcade game, robot, sculpture, or other fun things from home, or come and build one with us! Cardboard will be provided!
Caine’s Arcade Global Cardboard Challenge and Day of Play was first brought to Mission by Mission art teacher Mrs. Walker in 2013 after she saw a NBC Nightly News story about the incredible story of Caine Monroy and his cardboard arcade. Mrs. Walker thought, “I must do this with my students!” and shared it with the students, principal, fellow classroom teachers, and the PTA. This year will be our 9th annual event and children look forward to the event and begin to create, invent, and expand their imagination starting in September.
Everyone is encouraged to save cardboard boxes for this great event. There will be an allotted area for the games where everyone gets to play them. There will also be an area for more creating more things with many, many boxes, rolls of tape, markers, and pumpkin carvers.
