🎪 ALL HOLIDAYS CARNIVAL 🎪 Our BIGGEST event ever! 💥
Black Friday Weekend • Nov 28–29 • Mountainside Outfitters (East of Springfield on 60)
💰 $5,000 in Game Prize Giveaways!
🎄🐰🎃☘️🎆🦃❤️ Every holiday in one CRAZY weekend!
🎁 Games • Contests • Family Fun • Prizes • Sales
📸 Photo Ops: Meet Santa 🎅, Easter Bunny 🐰 & Sgt. Stitches 🧸 (Sat only!)
👗 Costume Contests: Ugly Xmas Sweater 🎄, Halloween 🎃, LARP ⚔️, St. Patty’s ☘️
💪 Wild Competitions: Keg Stands 🍏🍎, Dunk Tank 💦, Cold Plunge ❄️, Axe Throwing 🪓, Pumpkin Smash 🎃💥, Egg Toss 🥚, Stein Hold 🍺, Donut-on-a-String 🍩, Pie-Eating 🥧
🎨 Creative Corner: Drawing Contest 🖍️, Face Painting 🎨, Temp Tattoos 💀, Holiday Crafts ✂️🎨 (pumpkins, eggs, ornaments, thankful trees)
🎈 Kids’ Zone: Hayrides 🚜, Bounce Houses & Trampolines 🎈, Egg Hunts 🥚, Elf Hunt 🧝, Jellybeans & Candy Canes 🍬
❤️ Valentine’s Love Locks: Lock your love onto our wall 🔒 (custom engraving available)
🌳 Arbor Day: Bring a tree/plant & we’ll plant it + make a custom plaque
🔥 Bonfire: Warm up & sip cocoa ☕
🎆 New Year’s Countdown: Both days @ 2 PM with music + confetti cannons 🎊
🏆 PRIZES - Hundreds of prizes from silly to epic—including FREE G#N drawings 🎯🔥
Every g#n purchase = automatic entry to WIN A G#N
💸 SALES - Huge markdowns all weekend on g#ns, s#ppressors & more!
🛍️ VENDORS - Free spaces for small businesses—bring your booth & tag a friend!
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THE FINER DETAILS:
This CARNIVAL will be VERY DIFFERENT 🤩 from every event we’ve ever done as we celebrate ALL HOLIDAYS in one fun event! 🎄🐰🎃🍀🎆🦃❤️
💰 FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS IN FREE GIVEAWAYS just for playing fun games with us! 💰
Here are some of the fun activities planned so far:
PHOTO STATIONS 📸: MEET SANTA 🎅, THE EASTER BUNNY 🐰 & SGT. STITCHES 🧸!
All are FREE! SATURDAY ONLY! Hours: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm (⏰ break) 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm (⏰ break) 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm (Use your phone, remember to wipe off your camera lens & to tag us in your posts!)
COSTUME CONTESTS 👗👹👻☘️ Ugly Christmas Sweater 🎄, Halloween 🎃, LARPing ⚔️ & St. Patty’s Day ☘️! Prizes for: Couple 💑, Kid 12 & under 👶, Kid 13–18 👦👧, Most Shocking 😱, Funniest 🤣 & Best Overall 🏆. Come in anytime on Friday or Saturday wearing your best costume, take a picture IN OUR STORE, and email it, along with the person(s) age(s) to:
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VIRGIN CIDER KEG STAND CONTEST 🍏🍎! Relive your glory days by showing everyone how long you can hang! Prizes for the top 5. Winners are also entered into a FREE G#N drawing 🔫🎉! (Sanitized between uses)
COFFEE ☕ & COCOA, 🍩 DONUTS & 🍻 CIDER! FREE while supplies last, Friday & Saturday! Limit 1 hard cider or beer per hour.
DUNK TANK 💦: Dunk our team or volunteer yourself to be dunked for prizes + FREE G#N entries! (Towels available)
COLD PLUNGE ❄️💦: Jump into our 15’ pond! MUST be escorted by Dave (the guy with the springy Christmas 🎄 Tree hat). Jump 5.5’ from the main deck, or 15’ from the shipping container roof. Prizes for everyone who gets wet. Better prizes for the best jumps. (Towels available)
BONFIRE! 🔥 - Got wet & need to warm up? Just want to sip your hot cocoa for a bit? We’ll have a fire burning in the parking lot all day Friday & Saturday, with seating around it.
HAYRIDES 🚜: FREE! On the hour, every hour, 11am–6pm, Friday & Saturday. We’ll take you out for a peaceful ride around the fields on a trailer pulled by a tractor.
AXE THROWING 🪓 & PUMPKIN BOWLING 🎃🎳: FREE both day! No contests, just for fun.
FACE PAINTING 🎨 & TEMP TATTOOS 💀: FREE! Temp Tattoos are available while supplies last. Face painting is available during the following hours, (to be determined & edited), Friday & Saturday.
BUY A G#N, WIN A G#N! - Every g#n purchase is entered into a drawing for a FREE g#n!
HOLIDAY CRAFT STATIONS ✂️🎨: Painting & decorating Pumpkins 🎃, Easter Eggs 🥚, Christmas Ornaments 🎄 & Thankful Tree ornaments. 🍂. FREE while supplies last, all-day Friday & Saturday.
EASTER JELLYBEANS & CHRISTMAS CANDY CANES! - FREE entry. Prizes for Candy Cane fishing games and Jellybean guessing jar.
ELF-ON-THE-SHELF HUNT 🧝 - Free entry. Find all 5 Elves hidden around the store & email pics of all 5 to us to be entered to win prizes!
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VALENTINE’S LOVE LOCKS ❤️🔒: Bring your own padlock or buy one here & Lock Your Love onto our LOVE WALL. Custom laser engraving on your lock with names & dates is $20.
EASTER EGG HUNT! 🥚 Find an Easter Egg in our store & open it to find out if you won a prize or a discount. Limit 1 per person.
BEST DRAWINGS ON OUR FLOOR CONTEST 🖍️ Prizes for Most Creative 🌟, Most Detailed 🧐, Weirdest 🤪, Funniest 😂 - To enter, find a marker(s), draw something on our floor, have someone take two separate pictures, one of the artist & one of their art, and email it, along with the artist’s age, to:
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PUMPKIN SMASH! 🎃 💥 - We’ll lift you as high as you want, up to 60’ in the air, in a construction lift, so you can throw pumpkins onto a giant target, and watch them explode gloriously! Smaller prizes for hitting rings of the target. Better prizes for skewering your pumpkins onto the stake in the bullseye! Cost per pumpkin is (to be determined & edited).
EGG TOSS COMPETITION 🥚🥄 FREE entry. Choose a teammate & toss a raw egg back and forth with large spoons, taking a step back after each successful catch, until the egg is broken. Prizes awarded for the top 5 longest distances.
CIDER STEIN HOLDING CONTEST 🍺 - FREE entry. Who can hold a stein out at arm’s length the longest. Prizes awarded for the top 5 longest times.
DONUT-ON-A-STRING RACE 🍩. - FREE entry. Who can eat a donut off a string the fastest without dropping it. Prizes awarded for the top 5 longest times.
THANKSGIVING PIE-EATING CONTEST! 🥧 - FREE entry while supplies last. No hands allowed. Prizes for the top 5 fastest times.
FLAMETHROWERS & CANNONS 🔥🧯 Half price fun! Rent a flamethrower & burn a whole tank for only $10! Shoot the cannon for only $50!
HAY BALE MAZE! - (I’m not certain yet if I can pull this off in time.)
ARBOR DAY! 🌳 Bring in a tree or any other plant, of any size & we will plant it here on the property. We will also make a permanent, custom plaque, showing who donated it, along with whatever custom message or quote you want on the plaque.
NEW YEAR’S COUNTDOWN 🎆🎉: Friday & Saturday at 2pm - We’ll play music, hand out confetti cannons, and countdown. Make sure you bring someone special to smooch!
PRIZES 🎁: 1-Star through 5-Star levels! Too many to list! Prize winners will have the option to choose from hundreds of both kid & adult prize options, as displayed on the prize tables, including entries into FREE G#N giveaways. Some will receive their prize on the spot. For contests that can’t be awarded on the spot, all contest winners will be contacted via phone or email & the prizes they won will be posted to FB between Monday & Wednesday.
SALES 💸: Huge markdowns on g#ns, s#ppressors & much more! (Need to add sales info)
KIDS FUN ZONE 🎈: Bounce houses, trampolines, balloons, juice pouches & more are FREE as always.
VENDORS SET UP FREE! 🛍️ Come take advantage of our extra traffic to promote your small business. We have dozens of outdoor booth spaces with electricity & acres more without electricity. You may sell anything legal. Food vendors must be licensed with Webster County. Just show up & set up either or both days. Come when you can, leave when you want to. Gate opens an hour early for vendors, or you can set up early on Wednesday. Tag your small business friend!
HIRING HELPERS! - We are looking to hire several people to help with this event. Must be 16+. If you ever wanted to be a Carney, here’s your chance to be one for a couple of days at your favorite g#n store!
I don't know why FB always repeatedly sends out notifications about the location changing, but it has not changed & will not change.
📍 Plan your trip now to Fordland (Springfield), MO! WE’RE WORTH THE DRIVE! 🚗💨
Location: Mountainside Outfitters
12337 State Hwy U (@ RT 60)
Fordland (Springfield), MO 65652
🕖 7 am to 7 pm on BLACK FRIDAY
🕘 9 am to 7 pm SATURDAY
📅 November 28th & 29th
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