Church Fall Festival Ideas: 98 Creative Harvest Activities

Outdoor

1. Exploration Point – Fill a sandbox with objects to tell a Bible story. Give kids toy shovels to dig out the objects. Then tell them the story.
2. Noah’s Super Boat Race – Fill capped, plastic rain gutters with colored water and lay them on parallel tables. Give children small plastic boats to blow the length of the gutters.
3. Jonah’s Super Soaker – Children run through a revolving sprinkler head, then crawl under a table draped with blue sheets. Lay plastic sheeting under the table and cover it with cooked spaghetti. Stake a whale painted with gaping jaws against the table. Tape clear plastic to the whale to keep it dry.

Church Fall Festival Ideas: Fun Activities

Indoor

1. Family Photo Booth – Families pose for instant-print photos. Then place photos in kid-decorated frames.
2. Karaoke Singing – Have an adult play the piano. Kids sing their choice of song on a little stage, complete with a microphone.
3. Nail Painting – Older girls paint kids’ nails.
4. Nurse’s Station – Children get their pulse rate, weight, and height done by a uniformed nurse.
5. Computer Printout – Kids get printouts with their name and its meaning (taken from baby name books).
6. Music Videos – Set up a camcorder so it’ll play through a television. Kids pick their wardrobes from old clothes and wigs. Kids then lip-sync to Christian music while watching themselves on TV.
7. Jail – The pastor dresses up as a sheriff and throws people into jail. Create a fun bail requirement for them to get out.
8. Caricature Drawings – A resident artist draws pictures of kids and parents.
9. Costume Parade – Costumed participants parade around your fall festival area.
10. Tunnel of Fun – Kids crawl through a giant tunnel made from old appliance boxes. End the tunnel down a flight of stairs and have kids land on a mattress. Use spotters.
11. MASH Unit – Kids get bandaged up-complete with fake blood.
12. Merry Time – Kids race to decorate a miniature tree, then sing a carol in two minutes.

Outdoor

1. Ball Cage – Rent a ball cage big enough for parents to play in also.
2. Emergency Vehicles – Have fire trucks, ambulances, and police cars on display.
3. Model Cars – Give the collectors in your church a chance to show their prize possessions.
4. Pony Rides – Kids ride ponies in a circle (with adult supervision).
5. Petting Zoo – Bring in soft, furry animals for children to enjoy.
6. Gospel Sing – Have a talent show on a flatbed truck.
7. Hayrides – Take children on a flatbed truck hayride around several city blocks.
8. Tattooed – Kids get fake tattoos–available at stores.
9. This Is Me – Use a desk lamp to shine light on a hanging paper on the wall. Have children stand between the light and the wall while an artist outlines their profiles.

Church Fall Festival Ideas: Games

Indoor

1. Bean Bag Toss – Kids toss small bean bags into plastic buckets.
2. Bingo – Set apart a separate room for an ongoing game.
3. Clothespin Drop – Kids drop clothespins into a wide-mouth jar.
4. Milk Can Toss – Kids toss softballs at milk cans or empty 2-liter bottles.
5. Dart Throw – Kids throw darts at balloons on a cork board.
6. Putt Putt Golf – Kids play through a miniature course.
7. Floating Ducks – Kids pick up plastic ducks from a wading pool. The number on the duck corresponds to a prize.
8. Bowling – Kids play with a plastic bowling set.
9. Basketball Shoot – Kids toss a basketball through a PlaySkool hoop.
10. Face Painting – Decorate kids’ faces.
11. Ring It – Children toss embroidery hoops over empty two-liter bottles arranged similar to bowling pins on the floor.
12. Ring It Again – Kids toss hoops at prizes set up on tables or boxes. Prizes include bubbles, soft drinks, and small toys.
13. Can Alley – Cut out one side of a big box. Hang soft drink cans from strings inside the box. Kids shoot at the cans with Nerf guns.
14. Blow and Go Race – Four children race on the floor using party blowers to blow ping pong balls to a finish line.
15. Ping-Pong Blow – Teams of three compete to blow ping pong balls to the other end of a table, using drinking straws.
16. Muffin Pan Toss – Kids toss 10 pennies into a muffin tin with numbered holes; pieces of felt in the bottom of the tin keep pennies from bouncing out.
17. Fishing Game – Kids fish over a wall and hook prizes.