Fall Festival Classroom Activities

Turn an ordinary classroom into a fall festival with a little imagination.

Restricted to your classroom for the fall festival festivities? Not to worry -- you still have plenty of options for creating exactly the kind of party that your students will enjoy and remember for years. Get creative and maximize your available space with games, activities, food and entertainment.

Games

Clear a long space of floor and set up a mini bowling alley.

Keep the games low-impact and small. Set up a beanbag toss in one corner and a ring toss in another. Spread a large garbage bag on the floor and set up a barrel or bucket so that kids can bob for apples. With a long, cleared strip of floor space, you can play horseshoes, have a tug of war or set up a putt-putt hole. If your classroom is tiled, you can get a little messier with an egg or water balloon toss.

Entertainment

Students will love singing karaoke together.

Ask a female parent or volunteer to dress up as a fortuneteller and set up a booth in one corner of the room with a crystal ball. Be sure to keep the fortunes lighthearted and age-appropriate. If you have a lot of girls, set up another small booth for makeovers. Clear a space for dancing and play music, or rent a karaoke machine and let students take turns singing.

Contests

Bobbing for apples is a silly and fun part of any relay race.

If your fall festival falls close to Halloween, have a costume contest. Award prizes for the funniest, most creative, most colorful or most realistic costumes. Split students into teams of four or five and have a relay race; for example, one student eats a cup of popcorn and taps the next student on his team, who must successfully bob for an apple. Choose whatever relay activities will fit in the classroom and that your students will enjoy. You can also have a mini scavenger hunt inside the room. In teams, students search the room for a short list of items that you've already hidden. The first team to find all the items wins.

Arts & Crafts

Leaves, pinecones and pine needles can form a lovely fall sculpture.

Let students go outside and collect leaves and other bits of nature, then create a fall festival sculpture. Before the festival, purchase a miniature pumpkin for each student, or ask your students to bring their own. Supply paint and let students decorate their pumpkin. For middle school and above, set up a booth for getting temporary tattoos. You can also line the floor with paper, hang large sheets of roll paper on the walls and let students create a fall mural.

References

• American Family Day: Fall Festival Ideas
• Amazing Moms: Fall Party and Harvest Party Ideas
• Family Capers: Family Fall Harvest

Resources

• Family Fun: The Great Pumpkin Party