Enjoy a Fall Festival

A table centerpiece of apples, pears, and grapes, and a big red apple at
each place will help carryout your harvest party theme.
Harvest Party Invitations:
A farmer carries your invitation neatly
folded in his hip pocket. Make the farmer by cutting a yellow straw hat, green coat., blue
trousers, and brown shoes from construction paper. Fit them together and paste on a 4 by 6
inch sheet of heavy brown paper. Cut a ½ inch slit along the farmer's waistline and tuck
the invitation into it.
As the guests arrive, give each girl a sunbonnet and each boy a straw hat. To make a
sunbonnet, cut a 6 inch square of crepe paper and a strip of crepe paper 8 inches wide and
18 inches long. Sew the strip around three sides of the square, and attach ribbons tie
under the chin. For the hats, cut round open brims out of cardboard and paste yellow paper
over and under them. The hats do not need crowns.
Divide your guests into harvest teams for an apple relay race. The apples, laid on the
floor two or three feet apart and in rows, must be picked up and placed in baskets set
behind the starting line.
After this race, the guests may enjoy coloring outlines of farm pictures, or making
vegetable animals. Each group of four should have a small table to work on. You can show
them a curious animal which you say you have found n your garden. It may have a summer
squash body, a small potato head, green tomato feet, and a long radish or carrot tail, all
held together with toothpicks. Give each guest vegetables and toothpicks to make their own
animal. Have someone judge the best animal and give a prize for it.
Decorate with
Squash Cutouts/Gourds
Cutouts
Call the guest to the dining room with a dinner bell. Seat them at a table spread with
a red checkered cloth. Potato salad, hot dogs, carrots, milk pumpkin pie, and candy corn
would make a good harvesters dinner.