New to Field Day this year is a dedicated village green area. Inspired by summer sports days and country fetes - Village Mentality's Village Green will host side-stalls and activities throughout the daytime, ranging from sack-racing to splat-the-rat to the ' eat as many carrots as you can ' contest.
So come along and try your luck on the tombola, crack a few nuts on the coconut shy, join Pom Pom International in making pompoms for world peace - or just sit on some hay bales and stuff your face with homemade cake! There will also be a Tug O' War where some of the bands and artists appearing at the festival will do battle with only along piece of rope for weaponry. Come along, have fun and as the country saying goes 'be like an ant in the days of summer.'
If you're dying to be included in the carrot eating contest, are a semi-professional sack racer or have a stall or activity that you think would be perfect for the Village Green then email: villagementality@googlemail.com
Pom Pom International - Pom Pom International travel the globe spreading peace and love through the simple, accessible craft of pom pom making. Get stuck into a huge pile of colourful yarn and create your own unique fluffy bundle of fun! Tag it with your name and a message for peace and hang it in the Pom Pom Gallery. All pom poms made at Field Day will go on to be part of the biggest collective pom pom in the world. Pom Pom International's creator, Amy Lamé will be on hand all day!
For more info on Pom Pom International see
Bowling for Bacon - Raising the stakes on the prize front ( vegeterian option available) is this classic lo-tech bowling game
Sack racing - Climb in a potato sack, line up alongside other keen competitors and when the whistle blows jump, hop, scramble your way into
A) the lead and the winning line
B) a dishevelled pile two steps away from where you started.
Splat the Rat - A game of skill and timing where the participant takes a bat of some sort and has to literally ‘Splat the Rat' - usually a fluffy toy - which drops through an enclosed drain pipe towards the ground.
Eat as Many Carrots as you Can contest - A small group of lucky competitors (names picked out of a hat) will vie for the title of top Carrot Eater - how many kilos of carrots can you eat in one sitting?
Tombola – Spin the wooden tombola, take out a ticket and see if you’ve won any of the strangely alluring, probably useful or pretty odd prizes on display. It’s addictive – one spin is never enough.
Traditional fairground activity requiring good hand/eye co-ordination skills. Take aim, throw the wooden ball and knock a coconut off the post and you win a prized tropical palmfruit (a coconut)