Your Renaissance Fair
Renaissance fairs can be great fun to have at your school. The Renaissance fair is not something that every school has and can be a very unique educational experience. People tend to remember these types of events far longer than they remember ordinary things like spring fairs, dances, and athletic events.
Preparing for this event however can be tricky. The proper atmosphere must be created using proper costumes, stages, and setups. Fun and interesting activities should be planned out so that the event does not seem like a costume party. You’ll need costumes like Renaissance gowns and armors, but you’ll also need game setups, unique stages, and food vendors to pull off an accurate depiction of this era.
The first thing you should look into is setting up your food vendors. People will not stick around to play your games if they are hungry. Medieval foods are very simple to make. All you’ll need is some meat vendors and some baked goods. You can sell sandwiches consisting of large delicious slabs of meat and home made bread. You can easily make a personal pan sized pie in cherry, apple, peach, blueberry, or any other flavor you desire.
Renaissance fairs become highly interactive when you set games up for people to play. Dunk the jester and apple bobbing are just two of the many games you can setup. Use your creativity and you can come up with medieval ways to create many different fun and entertaining games for attendees to play.
Jousting and medieval plays can be setup next. You can get authentic costumes at a website called Historical Clothing Realm . They’ll ship the costumes directly to your home or school so that you won’t need to pick them up.
Costumes you’ll need to buy are Renaissance dresses, medieval boots, and suits of medieval armor. You’ll also want to get some medieval weapons for your jousts and plays. They’ll be just perfect as long as you get reenactment weapons.
The date can be set for the fair once you have everything planned and organized. Dry seasons are best for this type of event. Inside locations or rain dates should be set in the event of a storm.
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