We don't always carve pumpkins for many reasons: quick-to-rot pumpkins, parent labor, kids with knives...etc. This year, we went for it. The kids drew their designs, helped hollow the pumpkins out, and did a very small percentage of the cutting.
Our favorite Harvest Day activity was our church's Harvest Festival, which requires that people dress up as someone/something from the Bible. Kyler chose Joab (complete with a lock of Absalom's hair), Ella was Abigail (she carried food in a basket), and Brennan was Shammah (the Mighty Man of David that defended the bean field - he had a bag of beans attached to his belt). The church was filled with game booths, bouncy houses, craft tables, and more.
We concluded the holiday with our annual candy sort-and-pick event. This is where we consolidated candy bag contents, sorted it, and then each person picked 7 pieces to keep so they can eat 1 per day for a week. The rest of the candy was donated to a good cause (Scott's soccer team). All-in-all, Harvest Day 2011 was a blast!
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