Scout woke up this morning, and came up with a great idea. He and the kids were going to form a homemade fair. I think I got heart palpitations right away. I imagined the mess to make it, the clean up mess and especially — the big huge flop it might be. But as a supportive mom and dad, we agreed. In fact, Micah talked with the kids, and told them that they needed a goal. They needed to try to earn money for something, and they could use the proceeds from the fair as part of it. Everyone agreed upon earning money for the drive-in theaters. We figured it would cost each kid $12 to go to the drive-ins. Which included the entrance fee and concessions.
They were pumped.
The set up began.
They took a $5 loan from Micah to make the games look more enticing — like others had already played and gone.
They started advertising with signs, phone calls, and going from house to house.
They had about 5 games, and tried to figure out which ones would produce the most money.
The change drop — where you dropped change into a bucket of water and tried to make it into the little cup was their best producer.
If they landed it, they got a prize (stuff from around the house, and a a box of suckers that Bella donated to the cause).
The fan favorite was the “Bobbing for fruit” (fruit because they swiped all of my nectarines and apples).
Here are some of our neighbors going to town.
Here is the beneficiary of someone’s loot.
By the end of the fair, the kids were really digging in.
And Scout — the little entrepeneur, decided that he would make it tougher.
They still paid to play, but now it was “Bite The Marble”.
(Don’t mind that Navy came up with boogs running down to her chin, and I was going to call the game, but then all of the kids yelled and screamed that they wanted their turn. It was the grossest cesspool by the end!)
The cash started coming in pretty good.
By the end, Scout was getting creative. Bella had some groceries that Nonnie needed her to get, and when she drove in, he put them out and said $2 for anything you want. She thought it was funny enough that she bought $2 worth.
We told the kids after it was over…they could count their money after every single item was spotless.
They did a great job!
So we started counting…
And after the loan was paid back to their dad, they made…..
$44.33!
We were all in disbelief.
We couldn’t believe their success.
They need to thank all of the neighbors and especially Nate Carr, for funding their trip to the drive ins!
After they took out their tithing money off the proceeds, they divied out their money — equal parts to Scout and Navy, and then a chunk to Dash, Seth and Cade for all being helpers.
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What Micah and I thought might take many weeks to accomplish, took only one day of hard work. And Scout and Navy have seen what a little hard work can accomplish.
One of my favorite days in a long time!
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