Fall Festival Ideas

So DS's Pre-K/Head Start center is having a Fall Festival and looking for ideas. I have a few of my own and want to know what you all think. If you have some ideas that I haven't thought of yet please share! Kids are ages 3-5.





Scarecrow Crafts
You will need:
1 Brown Paper Bag
1 Coffee Filter (Hat)
1 peice of Candy Corn (Nose)
Handful of Twine Rope or Hay (Hair)
2 Googly Eyes (Eyes)
Precut felt peices for cheeks or other decoration
Orange Ribbon (Bow Tie - Boys, Hair Tie - Girls)
Markers/Crayons
Glue/hot glue
News Paper/hay for stuffing

Fall Wreath Crafts
You will need:
1 Paper Plate
Construction Paper - Various Fall Colors (Red, Yellow, Orange, Brown)
*Trace hands and cut out to be used as leaves*
Fall Leaves, Pine Cones, Acorns, Twigs
Twine/Ribbon - Bows/Decoration and to hang
Glue/hot glue

Leaf Pool (Ball Pool)
You will need:
Several bags of leaves
Shallow plastic/blow-up pool
Fill pool with leaves
Kids jump/play in the leaves

Pumpkin Bowling
You will need:
Round Pumpkins (Bowling Ball)
3 2-liter bottles per lane (Pins)
Roll pumpkin down lane to knock down pins

Bobbing for Apples
You will need:
Apples
Large/Medium tub full of water
Blind Fold
Tongs
*Use apples later to make candy/caramel apples*

Caramel/Candy Apples
You will need:
Apples
Wooden craft sticks
Caramel/Candy Apples dipping sauce

Pumpkin Painting Craft (Contest)
You will need:
Mini Pumpkins
Paint
Pipe Cleaners for decoration
*Maybe hold a little voting contest for the most creative ones*

Sack Race
You will need:
Burlap sacks/Pillow cases
start/finish line

Photo Corner
You will need:
Hay Stacks
Fall Corn Cobs
Pumpkins/Squash/Gourds/Apples/Basket
Leaves
Scarecrow
Camera
Photographer

Face Painting
You will need:
Face paint

At my girls daycare they make these little Owl treats out of moon pies, candy corn, oreos and frosting! They are adorable! They also have a donut eating contest, they put powder donuts on a string and then each teacher would hold one end and the kids would see who could eat their donut the fastest with out dropping it! Bobbing for apples is against saniation rules! So this kinda replaces it! WE also did crayon shaving place mats! They are really cute, we had the older kids keep crayon shavings all year and then we used them and melted them beetween waxpaper and put their picutre in the middle and laminated it!

We to are doing a fall fest but ours is for all ages... my booth is child related and you just helped me so much. Some other ideas are halloween themed bean bag toss, get fall themed ducks at the dollar store and do a duck pond game like they have around fair time. my mom also showed me a real fast way for kids to make pumpkins out of tp rolled take colored tissue paper tuck it into the hole on top and bottom of the tp and then push the top one in a little more twist green or brown tissue paper and tuck in a steam, and then the kids can either draw on faces or glue on cut out face parts. i also am making witched brooms that are done up from the dollar store for kids. I have lots more ideas if you want them i hope this helped.

Quoting Mrs. Calderon:" At my girls daycare they make these little Owl treats out of moon pies, candy corn, oreos and frosting! ... [snip!] ... shavings all year and then we used them and melted them beetween waxpaper and put their picutre in the middle and laminated it!"

I know that bobbing for apples is against rules, that is why the blind fold and tongs will be use   Then later they can either eat their apple as is or go make a caramel/candy apple with it!

Quoting Mosley Allen:" We to are doing a fall fest but ours is for all ages... my booth is child related and you just helped ... [snip!] ... witched brooms that are done up from the dollar store for kids. I have lots more ideas if you want them i hope this helped."

Just thought of a couple more!


Pumpkin Ring Toss
You will need:
5-6 various sized pumpkins with long stems
Decorative leaves, small hay bale
Rings to toss

Haystack Find Game
You will need:
Large bales of hay
Prizes hidden in hay for kids to find

thats such a good idea!!!!!!!!!!!

Contact paper collage!
Super easy and non-messy.

get a bunch of fall stuff (leaves, straw, whatever strikes your fancy)
cut each child a piece of contact paper
Peel off the back to expose the sticky part
Have them decorate with your theme!

Super easy, it's fun, and there's no glue or tape to deal with (outside nature ones are neat because even dirt sticks, lol. So they can really decorate with whatever they want.

Quoting NicoThunders:" Contact paper collage! Super easy and non-messy. get a bunch of fall stuff (leaves, straw, whatever ... [snip!] ... to deal with (outside nature ones are neat because even dirt sticks, lol. So they can really decorate with whatever they want."

I will definitely have to add this to my list! I can't wait to share all these ideas with DS's teacher!

Any food or drink ideas? How about Apple Cider, hot coco, caramel corn balls, pumpkin pie/muffins, baked apples...

Any other ideas?

Quoting ★ Raych ★:" Any food or drink ideas? How about Apple Cider, hot coco, caramel corn balls, pumpkin pie/muffins, baked apples... Any other ideas?"

Zucchini bread!/muffins
Pumpkin cookies

cheeseballs... labeled as pumpkin poop.