The brave who decide to get young partygoers moving with sugar and syrup can rent cotton candy machines and snow cone machines — not to mention moonbounces, carnival games, and hot dog steamers — from Sudbury Taylor Rental. You get to keep the equipment for an entire weekend. It's $156 for a giant moonbounce and $50 for the cotton candy maker and most of the food machines. — MG

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