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Rubber Chickens, a Pirate and Old Favorites Enliven Saturday's Kensington Carnival
This year's Kensington School Carnival featured a few surprises, like the chance to toss rubber chickens and sneak past a pirate, but traditional offerings like the cake walk still drew plenty of fans.
By Schuyler Wijsen
The Kensington Elementary School carnival was spectacular, from the new booths like Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner to old favorites like the cake walk.
The carnival took place Saturday, May 11 to raise money for the school. It took most of Friday afternoon and early evening to set up game booths, tables, awnings, and a may pole with many colorful flags sweeping down it.
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New booths included Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner where you try to toss a rubber chicken into various culinary items such as pots and pans. Another was Don’t Wake the Pirate where you try to steal plastic gold without waking a pirate sleeping in a hammock. Another new booth was Ring the Flamingo where you try to toss a flowery ring around a plastic flamingo’s neck.
Old favorites included the cake walk, cotton candy, skee ball, water balloon catapults (from the top play yard to the lower one), a basketball shoot, and many others.
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Schuyler is a fifth-grader at Kensington Elementary School.