Ann Altshuler's suggestion for the puzzle - love it!

It might not fly where you are, but here I wouldn't hesitate to have
some cloth breast models and let visitors practice hand expression,
with guidance.  We could have them suspended on cords around the stand
and it would only elicit smiles, but I realize things could be very
different in the US.  (You could always wrap them in plain brown paper
to avoid scaring the nipplephobes :p)

The Brazilian organization Amigas do Peito, which Ammehjelpen in
Norway supported when they were still new - and I don't even know
whether they are still active - did brilliant interactive stuff in the
1980's.  They had a carnival puppet, a giant breastfeeding mother
called Mamalu, and paraded her through the streets (dancing and
singing 'mama yo quiero') and people in the crowds could call out
breastfeeding questions to the puppet, who would answer.  They did
events like street circuses about breastfeeding.  Of course an indoor
stand at a fair doesn't allow for activity on that scale, but they had
one activity that was always a part of their street events, letting
children draw or paint pictures of mothers breastfeeding.  In Brazil
at the time breastfeeding was never seen publicly.  Amigas would have
a tent with a chair surrounded by a ring of easels with paints and
brushes.  A breastfeeding mother was always in the chair, and children
were invited to paint pictures.  This forced them to really look at
breastfeeding, and then their pictures were hung on a wall that
remained in place as long as the event lasted, and they would bring
their parents to see the spontaneously generated art gallery, forcing
the parents to look at all the pictures of breastfeeding too.

Depending on your resources and staffing, you could have a chair at
the stand and offer a shoulder massage to anyone who wanted to sit
there and breastfeed - or demonstrate relaxing shoulder massage to
encourage MER to visitors who might want to acquire hands-on support
skills.

Or how about a closed box, containing all the equipment and gadgets
you need for normal breastfeeding - let people guess what is inside
it, and then make sure they all find out the box is EMPTY except for a
picture of a mother and a child, before they leave the stand.

And then there is the blatantly obvious banner for the stand:
"Breastfeeding: the definition of interactive feeding"

Can I come work there??
Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway

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