Cedar Ridge Fall Festival 2023

Yesterday evening we had a Fall Festival for the youth at our church.  It was fun.  We had different activities set up in a few different Sunday School classrooms; arts and crafts, a cake walk, apple bobbing, a photo booth,  and a Christmas Card-making stop (the cards will be handed out to residents of the local rest home.).  There was also the S'mores-making campfire out at the firepit (bless the hearts of the ones running that station...it was COLD last night), and the evening culminated in a musical bingo game.

The children all had a great time.  

I signed up for the apple bobbing activity.  There was more than one person surprised, and relieved, at how I did this because due to COVID-19, and a general overall enlightenment about germs in general, people were grossed out about allowing their children to bob for apples like we did back in the day.  I remember bobbing for apples in a huge tub of water at school, no less.

Things are a bit different now.  For one thing, I had the internet to consult as to how to update and sanitize the game.

They said to tie a string to the stem of the apples and hang them.  So that is what I planned.  Our Youth Leader had the ingenious idea to tie forks to the ends of the strings, we actually use jute cord, and just stab the apples.  That way we could just yank the apples off the forks and not have to mess with the strings.


 

The idea is to bite the apple without using your hands.  I can assure you that it is almost impossible to do so, especially for the little ones, without cheating.  One instance where it IS possible is that you have a very small apple and a teen with a very wide mouth.  Haha

I managed to get some great pictures of them attempting this game, but I won't post here because I am not into posting pictures of other people's children on line.  Just rest assured, it is as funny as you can expect.  

In case you were worried about wasted apples, the ones bitten and not wanted, or just generally slobbered on and not wanted...  Our Youth Leader took them home to wash and process into homemade apple cider vinegar.  

Next year we'll have to come up with a new, different type of game for them. 

Comments

Donna. W said…
Something I never thought about is that bobbing for apples would spread germs. But then at home, we all used the same dipper in the bucket of drinking water and put the dipper back in the bucket when we were done drinking from it. Yuck.
November 19, 2023 at 3:19 PM
Calfkeeper said…
Yes. The things we did back when we and the whole world seemed more naive make me cringe now. We'd drink out of the same cup, share food from each other's plates or forks...etc. We didn't think anything of it.
November 20, 2023 at 6:14 AM
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