Join us at the 3rd Annual Cougar Carnival on Thursday, April 17th 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.
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 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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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 Beverages - Use the human hamster wheel to make your frozen beverage
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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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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 - brought to you by Presenting Sponsor Glassford Project Management
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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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WoW Children's Museum - STEM Activity
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Got Game Sports - Dart Board Soccer
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My Nature Lab - live lizards!
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The Cookie Walk
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. . . and more!!!
Thank you to our 2025 Sponsors & Partners!
Presenting Sponsor
Sponsors
Individual Sponsors
Chris Choate,
Activity Partners
Food Truck Partners
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