STORE: Central Carnival

THE 2025 CENTRAL CARNIVAL IS ON SEPTEMBER 27TH (Saturday) FROM 2PM-5PM!

Buy unlimited-play kids' wristbands, food tickets, and raffle tickets EARLY! Pick up your wristbands and tickets at Will Call, rather than waiting in line. Wristband prices increase the day of Carnival.

Pre-purchased Wristbands and Tickets can be picked up at the Will Call desk:

- 9/26 (Fri) 2pm-2:30pm - by the Central School entrance

- 9/27 (Sat) during Carnival - at the Carnival entrance

Kids' Wristbands include unlimited games, inflatables, three cake walk turns, face painting, balloons and more!

1st wristband: $25 (Day of event: $30)

Each subsequent wristband: $20 (Day of event: $30)

Wristbands for 4 years old and under: FREE

*Adults do NOT need wristbands

Raffle Tickets: $5 each

Buy raffle tickets to earn a chance for your child to be Principal or Vice Principal for a day! You can also win gift cards and prizes from numerous local businesses, including:

Hi-Five Sports
Wilmette Theatre
The Fat Shallot
Sew on Central
One River School of Art + Design
Lock Chicago Escape Rooms
Ultimate Ninjas North Shore
Mod Mahj
Susie's Sugar Buzz
Millen Hardware
and more!

You do not need to be present at Carnival to win.

Food Tickets: $10 per roll of 10 tickets

Use for food/drinks and extra cake walk turns.

3 tickets for pizza

2 tickets for extra cake walk turns

1 ticket for popcorn, chips, cotton candy, juice, water, sno-cones

Cake Walk Donations:

The Cake Walk is a much-loved Central Carnival tradition! For those unfamiliar, in this Carnival game, participants walk around numbered spots to music. When the music stops, the person standing on the number that is called wins a cake (or another delectable dessert) to take home!

Please consider contributing a cake. You can drop off your own cake (homemade or store-bought) the day of Carnival - sign up HERE! If you don't have time to get a cake, please consider a donation. We’ll buy and deliver the cake for you!

THE CENTRAL CARNIVAL NEEDS VOLUNTEERS!

Please help us make Carnival a success! You can sign up and encourage your teens/tweens to volunteer by clicking HERE (Parents) and HERE (Teens/Tweens).