- April 18, 2024
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Sherry and Peter Bugnet, owners of Foamtastic Fun, have blasted foam at everything from birthday parties to gender reveal parties in the past year. Photos by Brian McMillan
Callen Rowe enjoys the foam party sponsored by the Family Life Center. The event celebrated the third anniversary of the arrival of pastor Joe Campetella and his wife, Jessica. Joe's father, Gerald was pastor there for 26 years.
Braelyn Heindl. Photos by Brian McMillan
Layla Demiduke, Cayden Quinones, Jaeda Lindo, Jasmine Lindo and Josiah Quinones. Photos by Brian McMillan
Josiah Quinones. Photos by Brian McMillan
Krissa Belton. Photos by Brian McMillan
The chaos is mesmerizing. Out of the mouth of a yellow canon, white plumes of foam shoot 12 feet into the air, gyrating on the wind, landing delicately onto the willing faces of children.
Or, sometimes, parents. Grandparents. Curious neighbors. Pet dogs.
It’s Foamtastic Fun, a Palm Coast business owned by Peter and Sherry Bugnet (pronounced bun-YAY).
It all started a year ago, when Peter Bugnet was sitting outside their camper, and he watched a video posted on social media by an Arizona friend who happens to be a fellow magician. (Peter Bugnet performs as Peter the Great.) He thought, “That looks pretty cool, but there’s no way Sherry would let me do this.”
But when he showed his wife, Sherry Bugnet said, “This looks amazing.”
A week later, they had a foam canon of their own, followed by all the supplies. “Amazon was coming to our house every day for a week or two there,” Peter Bugnet recalled. “We had the first party shortly after that.”
The Bugnets have set up their Foamtastic Fun canon at birthday parties — for children and adults — as well as fun runs, school parties, church parties, graduation parties, and even a gender reveal (the canon can be equipped with blue or pink foam).
When they arrive at a backyard, church or other venue, the Bugnets fill two 50-gallon barrels with water and use 80 gallons per hour, or about the same amount of water as in two bathtubs. The foam used in the canon is a special solution that’s easy on the skin and the environment, they said. If you get some on your face, it’s similar to some bubbles from baby shampoo, Peter Bugnet said, “you just wipe it off.”
Some kids, though, want it in the face.
“There were two or three little girls that kept coming up to us, asking, ‘Can you blast us?’” Sherry Bugnet said, referring to the latest part, April 16, at Christian Life Center (4888 Palm Coast Parkway NW). “They just wanted us to blast them in the face, over and over again, all three hours.”
The Bugnets have been hired for 22 parties in their first year, though they slowed down for a few months after Peter Bugnet was named bishop of the Bunnell Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They plan to continue doing parties as their schedule allows. Visit foamtasticfun.com or call 904-347-5199.
At parties, people watch him behind the canon and say: “That’s the best job ever!” Peter Bugnet said. “It is fun. Seeing smiles on faces is amazing.”
