School Fall Festival Activities
Organizing a school fall festival is a great way to raise school spirit and celebrate the harvest with the school community. Invite students and their families for an afternoon of group fun and a chance for you to mingle with parents well before conferences. Organize the festival for one particular classroom or expand it to include the whole school.
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Gourd Decoration
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Decorating pumpkins and other gourds is a fine old autumnal tradition, and is a great activity for a school fall festival. Get a large number of small decorative gourds and set them up on a table along with paints, paintbrushes and water. Allow festival-goers to decorate one or two gourds each. Have a contest, giving a prize for the prettiest gourd, the scariest gourd and the most unusual gourd. Alternately, have some of the students decorate gourds ahead of time and leave them out as decorations for the fall festival.
Gourd Games
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Pumpkins and other gourds are also useful for a number of fall games. To play Ring the Pumpkin, draw a line on the floor and set up three pumpkins at increasing distances from the line. Have players take turns tossing three small rings at the pumpkin stems. Rings that land around the stem of the near pumpkin are worth one point, the middle worth two points and the far one worth three points. Give a prize to the first person to score 9 points or, if no one does, the highest scorer of the evening.
Pumpkin Bowling is another festival party game. Set up several lawn bowling pins on the floor or the ground and draw a line 10 or 15 feet away from them. Have players take turns bowling with a round pumpkin. If you do not have lawn bowling pins, use 2-liter soda bottles for pins.
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Face Painting Booth
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Face painting is a great activity for nearly any time of year, but it fits in particularly well with the bright colors of a fall festival. Solicit student volunteers to man a face painting booth during the festival. Paint the faces of parents and kids alike for free or for a small charge as a fundraiser.
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