Storrs Ct Festival on the Green

Tom and I love the Mansfield Festival on the Green held in Storrs Ct every year, we get to see so many people we know, the atmosphere is great and we try to have a fun, vibrant booth.  As Realtors and life long residents in this wonderful community we look forward to being a part of many community events throughout the year and this is one of our favorites.

We have been setting  up a big, theatre style popcorn maker and giving out free popcorn for a few years now - finally everyone pretty much knows the popcorn is free,  but some people still come up and ask how much it is – when we tell them it is free they get the biggest smile on their faces!  So………550 servings of popcorn were handed out at this years festival!

Guess How Many Skittles and Win $100!

We  held a “Guess How Many Skittles are in The Jar” contest with a $100 Visa gift card prize for the winner and there were about 5 entries that were pretty close – the number of Skittles in the jar (it would have been M&M’s but Skittles were on sale…..) was 3,468 – thats a LOT of Skittles!

Our winner is the Lownes family! Chandra and Nick Lownes with their children, Thomas age 3 and Sophia, 9 months old,  live in Storrs Ct we delivered the Visa card to them  and will posting a couple of photos too!

Candy Prizes at the Toss Game

One of the other events at our booth was the toss game which our 12 year old grandson, Alex Cornell, designed and ran (at least when he was at the booth with us, other than that he was out at the dunking booth and just generally having fun with all his friends).  For his game we took his socks (clean ones only, I promise) and cut off the tops, then filled them with rice and used a twist tie to close them – very much like a bean bag.  In the area next to our booth he drew a big bulls eye,  put a basket in the middle and the kids tried to get the “sock bags” into the basket – he made sure everyone got a prize and the “Grand Prizes” were, what a surprise,  boxes of candy – it was fun!

More to Come for Mansfield Ct!

We got some great photos during the day of people having fun, the parade and the UConn marching band.  I will be posting lots of photos and blogging about the event again, we wanted to get the info out about the winner of the Guessing game contest as there were some really nice people who tried to guess the number of Skittles and I wish we could give everyone a gift card!  We will hold some sort of contest next year too – probably not the same Skittle jar because everyone knows the answer now……..!