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Before we start with our fall festival games and activities for families and kids, let’s find out first what fall festivals are all about:
What Is a Fall Festival?
A fall festival is a gathering or event to celebrate fall in all its beauty.
Think about carving pumpkins, apple cider, fun fall games, pumpkin patches, hayrides, and more.
Where Did Fall Festival Come From?
The fall festival celebration originated in China.
It was derived from the custom of Chinese emperors worshipping the moon during the Zhou Dynasty.
The Mid-autumn Festival first appeared as a festival during the Song dynasty.
Now it is even a Chinese public holiday and has been China’s second-most-important festival.
These and more facts about the autumn festival history can be found here.
What Do You Do at a Fall Festival?
At fall festivals you can find all kinds of fun games and activities for the whole family to enjoy and win prizes.
In case you are thinking about hosting your own fall festival, center your gathering around fun fall activities like:
- Pie eating contest
- Potato sack races
- Apple bobbing
- Ring toss
- Face painting
- Hayrides
Do It Yourself Fall Festival Game Ideas
Do you plan on having your own fall festival event at home or at your school? Then you will love the following fall game ideas.
They are great for any fall festival gathering or fall birthday party.
Also, don’t forget to check out our fall festival decoration and prize ideas at the end, to round up your event.
Let’s get started!
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Fall Festival Games for Kids
I would like to share the following fall festival games for children with you.
But don’t be surprised some of these work just as well for grown-ups.
Kids Fall Festival Ideas
At every pumpkin patch, you will find a corn sensory bin. They are super easy to set up and can be easily made at home.
If you prefer another fun Fall Sensory Idea go check them out here.
A craft table is always a great idea to calm children down. Below I will list several more craft ideas to choose from and prepare ahead of time!
The pumpkin patch walk is a fun outdoor fall festival game for kids.
This game is practically the fall version of the cake walk game.
To set up cut out the pumpkins and write the numbers on them.
You will need at least 10 players to play.
Picture bingo games are my favorite because the whole family can play.
This fall bingo game comes with 10 different game boards and brings a lot of fun!
Did you play twister before?
If not then you can get the chance to now with this pumpkin twister game for your next fall festival.
Use glow-in-the-dark rings to play pumpkin ring toss.
Get a couple of big pumpkins. Make sure they still have their stems and make rings out of glow-in-the-dark sticks.
Time to sweep these pumpkins.
Take old brooms and make a fall festival race out of this fun fall festival activity.
Get your free spider web printable here and play pin the spider with your kids.
It is such a fun fall festival game idea for families!
Your children will have a blast selling donuts at your fall festival carnival.
Here is an easy setup idea.
Family Fall Festival Games
There are so many fun activities your family can do at fall festivals. We love playing games at fall festivals and winning prizes.
Fall Festival Family Ideas
Time to host a pumpkin contest.
Instead of carving, let them simply paint or decorate their pumpkins.
This way it is such a fun fall festival activity even preschoolers and toddlers can participate.
Do you like to play mini golf?
Then set up this fun pumpkin golf at your next fall gathering.
Carve a pumpkin so it can be used as golf hole and you are good to go.
Tic tac toe is a beloved family game in our house. Turn it into a fall festival game by simply using pumpkins to play with.
Pumpkins can also be used for this cool fall festival toss game.
Carve and paint them to your liking and let your guest try to throw them into the holes.
Next, let's play poke a pumpkin.
The full instructions for this fun fall festival activity for families can be found here.
Did you bowl with a pumpkin before? You should give it a try.
Set up some bowling conus and try to knock them over with a pumpkin.
Build your own spider sling and let them fly.
Here you find out how it works.
Fall Festival Activities
If these weren’t enough fall festival games for you, go check out the following list of fall festival activities next:
Fall Festival Activities
Every good fall festival has a pie-eating contest.
Here you can find out what the rules are for your pie-eating contest to use it as your next fall festival activity.
Every good festival has a face painting booth set up.
Find out how easy it is and what will you need to make this fall festival activity for kids a success.
I'm sure you participated in a sack race before. Especially with a big group of kids, it is a fun fall festival activity everyone can participate in.
So why not use it as a fall festival idea for your next school event this fall?
Did you play apple bobbing before? You will get wet, let me tell you that for sure. LOL
Here are the rules and instructions on how to play this fun fall festival activity for the whole family.
This might not be so easy to pull off for everyone but hayrides are kind of expected when visiting a fall carnival.
Here are 15 hayride ideas for fall festivals.
These Pumpkin Patch Activities and Halloween Games would work great as well!
More Fall Festival Ideas
Here you will find free fall festival printables and food ideas to round up your family event!
- Free Printable Fall Festival Carnival Signs
- Apple Cider Bar
- Pumpkin Chunkin
- Caramel Apple Bar
- DIY Fall Festival Photo Booth
- Fall Festival Treat Ideas
- Costume Contest
- Pumpkin Weight Off
- Free Printable Pumpkin Scavenger Hunt
- Pumpkin Bake Off Fall Festival Activity
- Fall Festival Idea – Pumpkin Slime
- DIY Fall Festival Game – Dunk Tank
- Halloween Dance Party
- Candy Corn Guessing Fall Festival Game
- Scarecrow Race
- Fall Festival Talent Show
- Petting Zoo
- Pony Rides
- Fall Festival Movie Night
- Halloween Karaoke – Fun Fall Festival Activity
- Costume Parade
- Fall Festival Firework
- Campfire with Smore’s
- Apples on a stick
- Cookie exchange
- Musical Chair
- Fall Decoration Contest
- Hot Chocolate Bar
- Chilli Bar
- Fall Festival Activity – Science Experience
DIY Fall Festival Craft Table
As promised above here are some more craft activities for your fall festival:
- Acorn Template
- Squirrel Printables
- 15 Easy Pumpkin Art Ideas
- Fall Salt Painting
- Hedgehog Outlines
- Spider Web Art
- Maple Leaf Templates
- Corn Printouts
- Candy Corn Outlines
- Pumpkin Craft Template
- Apple Craft Template
- Hedgehog Craft Ideas
- Scarecrow Projects
- Preschool Apple Crafts
- 100 Pumpkin Crafts
- October Crafts
- November Crafts
If these weren’t enough fall festival craft ideas for you, go check out our 15 Amazing Fall Activities next.
If these weren’t enough, go check out our 100 Easy October Crafts.
Fall Festival Books for Kids
Here are some great book recommendations for your fall festival book corner:
This book is filled with colorful illustrations from a season of gardening. It is perfect for young gardeners and pumpkin lovers. It teaches a wonderful lesson about helping others and can be appreciated in the classroom or at home.
Celebrate fall with this story about sweet and charming Fletcher the fox!
Fall Festival Decorations
When you go to big pumpkin patches or fall festivals they always decorate so nicely.
But do not worry your autumn festival can look just as great.
Here are some fun fall festival decorating ideas for your backyard or school event:
Fall Festival Game Prizes
So now that we have a lot of activity ideas for your fall festival at school or at home it is time to talk about prizes.
Because let’s face it nothing makes it more fun than to be able to win prizes.
Here are a few items we will get for our next fall festival gathering:
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