Church fall festival ideas for fun harvest festival, fall carnival games, fall recipes for a church picnic party or potluck pitch-in, or fun trunk or treat ideas for family church party for kids and teens autumn activities.
Best Church Fall Festival And Harvest Party Ideas
How do you host a harvest party for church?
Autumn and harvest make a great fall party theme for a church festival or youth group carnival!
Fall season is perfect for harvest theme activities and fun things to do outside in the cooler weather — outdoor games, roaring fire, and delicious foods are so much fun for fall parties!
We have harvest party ideas for adults and kids for a great autumn theme gathering for a church backyard party or church fall festival parties!
List of 12 Creative Church Fall Party Ideas
- Host an autumn harvest dinner or church potluck lunch with fun autumn harvest recipes in the church yard. Ask guests to pitch-in with their favorite fall harvest party recipes or fall harvest party snacks.
- Have supplies so guests can make an autumn harvest bouquet to take home as a party favor.
- Decorate with cornucopia full of autumn harvest fruits and vegetables like mini pumpkins, apples, small gourds, and even sweet potatoes and leaves (get pumpkins and apples from a local fall harvest apple orchard or local farm!) for a beautiful autumn table setting or centerpiece.
- Have a pumpkin ring toss using small pumpkins with stems and large pumpkin with stem attached and glow necklaces as the rings to toss.
- Have a mini pumpkin scavenger hunt with prizes, money, and coupons attached to the pumpkins. Kids can keep the mini pumpkins and the prize! (You may want to limit 1 scavenger hunt pumpkin per child.)
- Play harvest games and autumn harvest trivia.
- Use autumn harvest quotes and Bible verses as place settings.
- Decorate with fall mum flowers on the dinner party table and bales of hay around the party area.
- Make hot apple cider in crockpots to keep it hot during the fall party.
- Have an outdoor bonfire with s’mores for a cozy fall harvest party or after your fall harvest dinner party to honor the harvest season.
- Decorate with beautiful fall harvest leaves party string lights We use these as part of our table decorations and also in mason jars and they were a big hit! One of my favorite fall harvest decorating ideas!
- Do a DIY make your own waxed leaves garland craft table.
If you’re not familiar with it, you may be wondering what is a harvest party?
What is autumn harvest?
Autumn harvest is usually centered around autumn equinox or the autumn equinox harvest moon (the full moon closest to fall equinox).
It is a time to celebrate the bounty of the season because it represents the end of the growing season and a time to give thanks for Thanksgiving.
And, of course, there are all sorts of delicious fall fruits and vegetables to enjoy, so you gather friends and family to enjoy the autumn bounty.
This fall themed party is a great end of summer party to celebrate the harvest or even later in autumn to celebrate harvest foods for Thanksgiving parties for your church group.
(Get full fall festival & harvest party ideas below!)
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Best Ideas For A Fall Harvest Party at Church
Have fun with these church fall harvest party ideas games, harvest party craft ideas, and fall harvest activities for all ages!
Ideas for fall harvest party activities and harvest party games:
• Make waxed leaves garland that guests can take home as fall harvest party favors.
• Have a pumpkin toss for an easy and fun idea for kids (or use mini pumpkins for different games).
• Want ideas for harvest festival flowers? Have a autumn flower bar where guests can put together their own fall flower bouquet to take home.
Learn how to have flower bar here.
• Have a bonfire!
This is a great way to keep guests warm as the night gets cooler.
Make sure to have plenty of plaid blankets to keep warm and offer sticks and marshmallows for roasting along with campfire smores ingredients.
GET TRADITIONAL CAMPFIRE S’MORES RECIPES HERE.
• Set up a fall craft table with crafts for autumn like: pumpkin leaf wreaths, leaf sun catchers, fall popsicle stick crafts, and more!
• Have a fall sensory table, including this fun autumn sensory activity (get the free fall sensory printables here)
• Go on a hayride.
This is a fun activity for all ages and is a great way to take in the autumn scenery.
• Have a pumpkin carving contest.
This is always a hit with kids activities and adults alike. Have contest with different categories — most creative, funniest, etc.
Or, if you don’t want to carve, do pumpkin painting! Get some pumpkins and paint them or color them with markers with autumn designs.
GET DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE NO-CARVE CAT PUMPKINS HERE
• Setup corn hole areas and play cornhole or have a corn hole competition.
• Have a fall-themed scavenger hunt with autumn-themed items like leaves, acorns, pinecones, apples, etc.
• Host a nature hike before dinner.
Explore the changing leaves and look for animals preparing for winter.
• Play an updated version of Bobbing for apples.
Give each person their own bobbing bucket and apples for sanitary purposes.
• Have sack race competitions.
• Offer a fall theme dessert table with fall-themed desserts like pumpkin pie, apple crisp, and even candy corn or other fall candies.
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What do you serve at a harvest dinner for your church potluck?
Your harvest or fall equinox dinner menu and fall recipes should be centered around foods to celebrate the flavors and bounty of fall, especially things from the end of summer harvest — think fall comfort food, fall flavors, and harvest vegetables and fruits you see at the end of the season.
DIY Fall Harvest Party Food Ideas / Fall Harvest Party Menu Ideas:
Autumn harvest salad recipes
Roasted vegetables for autumn harvest
Get the White Bean Chicken Chili Recipe
Autumn harvest pumpkin soup
Fall harvest party mix (try this party mix recipe for something different!)
Autumn harvest quiche
ALSO CHECK OUT: 12 Fun Fall Carnival Foods For Harvest
Autumn harvest apple cider with cinnamon sticks
Autumn harvest kale salad
Autumn harvest wild rice soup
Pumpkin cornbread (try this instead of pumpkin bread!)
Autumn harvest vegetable soup (made from the final garden harvest of the season!)
Autumn salad with roasted squash and cranberries
CLICK FOR : Southwest Sweet Potato Soup with a cornbread dumplings recipe.
Corn pudding (a favorite food fall harvest idea in our house!)
Pumpkin spice autumn harvest latte
Charcuterie graze board / cheese board
Autumn harvest lentil soup
Green Beans and Potatoes in Slow Cooker
Autumn harvest dips
Autumn harvest bread with pumpkin seeds
Pumpkin and squash autumn harvest quinoa bowl
Sun tea served in mason jar glasses
Apple cider
Hot chocolate bar with toppings
Pumpkin pie
Pumpkin spice coffee
Pumpkin donuts / apple cider donuts
Caramel Apple Bar or Caramel Apples Snack Board
Apple pie
Happy Autumn and Happy Harvest!
We hope you enjoy the fall season with these helpful tips and ideas for your church fall festival ideas!
