Need game ideas for your children’s ministry’s fall festival? These four ideas help kids learn new things about each other and build unity. Try them out!

Fall Festival Game #1: Human-Scarecrows

Best for ages 8 and up.

You’ll Need:

• paper bags
• clean scrap paper
• child-safe scissors
• clear or masking tape

Play the Game

Form groups of four. Give each group paper bags, scrap paper, scissors, and tape. Have each group choose a person to “turn” into a scarecrow. Allow 15 minutes for each group to cut and tape the scarecrow outfit onto its person.

Then invite the scarecrows to parade around the room.

Fall Festival Game #2: Cornstalk Hockey

Best for ages 8 and up.

You’ll Need:

• dried cornstalks, broomsticks, or tree branches
• at least 5 brown paper bags
• clean scrap paper
• 2 trash cans

Easy Prep:

Stuff five or more brown paper bags with balled up scrap paper and roll the tops of the bags down tightly to seal them.

Play the Game

Form two teams. Give each teammate a cornstalk, broomstick, or tree branch to use as a hockey stick. Use a scrap paper-stuffed brown paper bag as a hockey puck. Have your spare hockey pucks on hand as the game action can shred them quickly. Set a trash can on its side at each end of the play area to use as goals. The object of this game is for each team to get the puck into its team’s goal.

Fall Festival Game #3: Team Bingo

Best for ages 4 and up.

Form teams of equal size. Then ask the questions in the list below (you may need to add more questions depending on kids’ responses). If children can answer yes to any question, have them stand up. Children can stand for only one question. When all the team members on a team are standing, the team yells, “Bingo!”

The questions:

• Are you wearing a hat?
• Are you wearing shoes without shoelaces?
• Did you brush your teeth this morning?
• Did you make your bed today?
• Did you have cereal for breakfast?

Fall Festival Game #4: Caterpillar Relay

Best for ages 5 and up.

You’ll Need:

• rolls of bathroom tissue

Play the Game

Form teams of three or more, and have each team stand in a single-file line. Give each team a roll of bathroom tissue. Have teammates wrap the tissue around the first person in line, then pass and wrap the tissue around the next person in line. Continue until everyone on the team is wrapped, then wrap the tissue around the entire team to bind the team together.

Once the caterpillars are formed, have teams race to a specified spot in the room. Each team must complete the race as a unified group or start over.

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Need more fall fest info? Check out these posts! For even more game ideas, check out The Humongous Book of Games for Children’s Ministry. This book has over 200 games so you can find the right game for every lesson or ministry need.