Join us at the 3rd Annual Cougar Carnival on Thursday, April 17, 2025 from 3:30 - 7:30 pm. The event is FREE to our entire Lafayette Elementary community to attend.
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The event includes Food Trucks, FREE Activities, a Silent Auction, CougarWear and Carnival Shirt Sales, Live Music and more!
This is all made possible through the sales at our Silent Auction, our incredible corporate sponsors and the donations made by YOU - our Lafayette Elementary community.
You can make donations online, purchase CougarWear or Cougar Carnival shirts, and Garden To Table will be on site with plant starts for sale to support our Garden program.
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Want to sponsor the event? Learn more about sponsorship opportunities.
Donate today to support this community wide celebration. Click the donate link below as well to pre-order 3rd Annual Cougar Carnival t-shirts (deadline to pre-order is Friday, March 14, 2025).
Want to help?
We need LOTS of volunteer support to pull this off! You can sign-up coordinate our Tie-Dye Station, to make COOKIES for our Cookie Walk, or volunteer for an hour or two at the event.
Silent Auction
The Silent Auction is one of the main ways we fund this fun, FREE community event. The auction will begin ONLINE on Thursday, April 10th (one week before the event) and end onsite at the event on Thursday, April 17 at 6:00 pm.
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Sign-up to help provide something for the auction on Help At Schools!
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Check back for the link to the Silent Auction on Thursday, April 10th!
Food Trucks
There's plenty to eat at the Cougar Carnival! All participating food trucks accept cash or credit cards. Families in need will be provided food vouchers by the school courtesy of the participating food trucks and the PTO so that all can participate.
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Participating food trucks at this year's event include:​​
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Big Wheel Beverage - Run on the human-sized wheel to make your own sno-cone!
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Eats & Sweets - Ice cream treats
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Lenin's Pizza - Wood-fired pizzas
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Los Dos Bros - Mexican Food
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Ruby Ru's - Bourbon Chicken, Tacos and More
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Sizz'lin Street Bites - Grilled cheese, Wings and More
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Snowy Churro - Churros!
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Free Activities
From a FREE enter-to-win drawing at our Welcome Tent when you arrive to the Tie Dye station for your Carnival Shirts - there are a TON of free activities to keep you busy at the Cougar Carnival.
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Here are some of the activities you can look forward to:
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FREE Face-Painting
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Tie-Dye Station - to Tie-Dye your Carnival shirts
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Arts Hub - Art Activity
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Chai for Charity - Expand how you think about giving with this activity
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Carnival games with Family & Educators Together and Got Game Sports!
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The Cookie Walk
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Garden to Table
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. . . and more!!!
Thank you to our 2025 Sponsors & Partners!
Sponsors
Individual Sponsors
Activity Partners
Food Truck Partners
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