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Things You'll Need
Instructions
Event Planning
Secure a location for your cake walk. Schools, churches and community centers often work well. Contact the manager or director of the location you wish to secure for more help.
Contact friends and community members. Gather volunteers to help set up, operate and clean up the cake walk, as well as volunteers to bake cakes as prizes. (The more cakes, the better.)
Decide how much one ticket to the cake walk will cost. (Think about how many people you expect to visit the cake walk, how many times each visitor will play and how much money you'd like to raise.)
Lead a group of volunteers in making flyers and posters for the event. Remember that each piece of advertising should answer the questions: Who? What? Where? When? and Why? For example, your organization would be the "who"; the cake walk event would be the "what"; the location and date of the cake walk would be the "where" and "when"; and the purpose of the cake walk (for whom are you raising funds) would be the "why."
Help another group to distribute flyers and posters around public locations near where the event will be held. (Always ask permission before posting flyers on private property.) Don't forget to display flyers and posters at the location of the event, as well.
Encourage volunteers to spread news of the cake walk via word of mouth.
Schedule cake walk volunteers and cake bearers for arrival at the cake walk location 1 hour to 30 minutes before the cake walk is to begin.
Set the cakes out on a display table.
Station one or two volunteers in front of the cake walk entrance. Have the volunteers direct visitors to form a line.
Instruct volunteers to sell tickets. Volunteers should inform cake walk attendees that one ticket allows a player one "spin" around the cake walk.
Instruct volunteers to organize incoming and outgoing cash and change in a cash box.
The Game
Number 10 to 20 sheets of sturdy cardstock, posterboard or cardboard. Making the shape of a wide circle, tape each sheet to the ground with a thick, durable tape. Alternatively, you may draw hopscotch-like squares with chalk or asphalt paint on a stretch of unoccupied playground blacktop or parking lot.
Cut 10 to 20 scraps of paper (use the same number as squares from the previous step), writing one of the cake walk numbers on each slip. Dump all of the slips into a hat or other opaque receptacle.
Call the number of players that matches the number of squares on the floor onto the cake walk circle. Instruct each player to stand on a number.
Collect the players' tickets.
Inform the players that you will play a song, and when the music begins, they must walk clockwise around the circle, stepping on each number as they move around the path. When the music stops, they, too, must stop on whatever number they happen to be standing on or closest to.
Play the music.
Turn off the music at a random point in the song. Each player should be standing on a number.
Draw a number from the hat. Whoever is standing on that number wins a cake.
Place the winning number back in the hat. Mix up the scraps of paper.
Repeat steps 3 through 9 with new players.