Fall Time Harvest Festivals for Kids in New Jersey

Scarecrows, pumpkins, apple bobbin, hayrides and more.  Remember how much you loved harvest time festivals when you were a kid?  Live it up with your kids this Fall at some of these fun festivals around New Jersey that have lots of kid fun.

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Flying Pumpkin Festival
Pittstown, NJ
October 17
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This annual event is held at Peaceful Valley Orchards. The festival will feature pumpkin launching & family activities. NJ Hurl will be using catapults to hurl pumpkins across the fields. Other activities will include the construction & racing of corn cars, a cake walk, pumpkin picking,face painting, balloon animals, a petting zoo, a guess-how-many booth & family races

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Fall Festival Weekend at Von Thun’s Country Farm Market
Monmouth Junction, NJ
October 10th & 11th
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You get to go on a hayride to go pick-your-own Pumpkin Patch!  Activites for kids (including a 5+ acre interactive corn maze, straw maze, pony rides, petting zoo, pedal courses, face painting, inflatable moon jump, rubber duck racing, sand art, and candy art. 

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Pumpkin and Indian Corn Harvest Festival at Howell Living History Farm
Titusville, New Jersey
October 10
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Pumpkin picking and weight guessing are among hte activites that will be offered.  Pumpkin picking and weight guessing are among the activities that will be offered. Besides picking pumpkins and Indian corn for their doorsteps, windowsills and centerpieces, visitors can help harvest pumpkins for the Farm’s pigs, cattle and chickens, the chief consumers of pumpkins, historically. Children can help farmers process pumpkins for livestock feed throughout the day.

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Look beyond New Jersey, check out other harvest time events around the country

• Harvest Festivals for kids in New York
• Harvest Festivals for kids in Connecticut
• Harvest Festivals for Kids in Seattle
• Harvest Festivals for kids in the San Francisco Bay Area