Get the scoop on you new teacher

We survived our first meet your new teacher activity for primary this morning.   We decided to have an ice cream party and go with the theme Get the scoop on your new teacher.  We didn't want to use too much of our budget at the beginning of the year but had to plan on about 50 kids.

INVITATIONS
One of my councillors made these fun ice cream cone invitations.  I love them.  They turned out really cute.

TABLE DECORATIONS
I wanted something on the tables so when the kids came in they could see right away which table was their class.  I looked around for something ice cream but couldn't find anything so I just made ice cream cones out of paper and wrote the class names on the scoop.  All my scoops I did free hand because I wanted them all different.  I traced a Tupperware for the circle of the big circles and a cup for the smaller wall ones.

ACTIVITY
Along with the big cones in the center I made smaller scoops and wrote all the kids names on each one.  The cones had the teachers names and the cherry on top had the class name.  We scattered them on the tables and when the kids came they knew where to sit and who their teacher was.   Then we let the kids come by classes and make a class ice cream cone. 

TOPPINGS AND ICE CREAM
We had 40 kids and 10 teachers show up.  We ended up using 3, 5 quart buckets of ice cream.  Vanilla, chocolate and Oreo.

Toppings:
Gummie bears (biggest hit)
M&M's
Chocolate syrup
Carmel syrup
Chocolate & vanilla wavers
Marshmallows
Chocolate chips
Tons of sprinkles
Whipped cream in a can
Cherries

I had no idea how much of everything I needed and so I guessed.  And I guessed way wrong.  I had tons of everything. 

BALLONS
One gals assignment was balloons.  She found on pintrest how to make balloons look like ice cream cones and it just completed the toppings table.