Fun Fair Extravaganza: Learning Through Laughter, Food & Entrepreneurship

A vibrant and enriching Fun Fair was organized at Vadodara across six schools, designed not just as a celebration, but as an innovative learning experience for students. The event kicked off with a briefing on the objective and layout of the fair, highlighting its purpose: to nurture life skills, adaptability, and a sense of responsibility among 290 young learners.

Students took the lead in organizing a delightful variety of food and game stalls, featuring crowd-favorites like Panipuri, Bhel, Bhungda Bataka, Chanachor Garam, and more. Adding to the excitement, a puppet show was showcased as a cultural highlight, encouraging creative expression and artistic appreciation.

From deciding on stall names and preparing dishes to sourcing raw materials and maintaining bill books, every aspect of the event was student-driven. Equipped with gloves and caps for hygiene, they also practiced quality control and managed their own transactions using a token system.

At the end of the fair, profits were calculated based on tokens collected, and the earnings were distributed among the students. Through this hands-on experience, students learned valuable lessons in entrepreneurship, financial literacy, teamwork, and customer service, making the Fun Fair a perfect blend of fun, culture, and learning.

Feedback:

Last year, I really enjoyed the Funfair, but since I was in class 5, I couldn’t take part. This year, we participated for the first time. While everyone was selling things like panipuri and bhel, we wanted to try something different. So, we decided to make papad no bhukko, which included papad, salt, chillies, and spices.

We first made it at home and tasted it. Everyone liked it a lot! Then, we listed all the ingredients and calculated how much it would cost. We figured out how much to sell for 10 rupees and invested 100 rupees. In the end, we made 700 rupees.

We ran our stall with a lot of energy and had a great time. During the Funfair, we also visited other stalls and enjoyed the food. It was a really fun and satisfying experience for all of us.

-Arpita Raval, Standard: 7th

School: Sindhrot Primary School

It was the first time our school organized such a fun fair, and we couldn’t wait to share the news with our parents. When we told them about it, they suggested we try making pulao for our stall. We loved the idea! After discussing it among ourselves, the three of us decided to take on the responsibility of running the stall.

Excited, we headed to the market to check out the prices of the ingredients needed to make a delicious pulao. We had no idea how much things would cost—vegetables, rice, and other essentials were all new to us. One thing we quickly learned was that good-quality rice was priced at 60 rupees per kilogram. This got us thinking, as we realized that when we go out to eat pulao, a single dish costs about 90 rupees, and it uses only 250 grams of rice. This gave us a whole new perspective on how pricing works!

After gathering all the necessary ingredients, which cost us 300 rupees, we were overjoyed to make 510 rupees in sales! Our stall was a success, and we couldn’t be happier with the experience.

-Rajeshwari Sharma, Standard: 7th

School: Shram mandir Primary School