Harvest Festival 2024

Harvest Festival 2024

10th October 2024 at 13:00

Races: 13:15 – 15:00

  • Two-team Relay Race
  • Cycling Race
  • Sack Race
  • Children’s Sack Race
  • Egg and Spoon Race
  • Children’s Egg and Spoon Race
  • Couples’ Wheelbarrow Race   
  • Wellington Toss
  • Foot Race (1 mile)
  • Children’s Foot Race
  • Toddlers’ Foot Race

Side Shows: anytime throughout afternoon

  • Mate Tug
  • Guess the Weight of the Pig
  • Corn Hole
  • Giant Connect 4
  • Giant Jenga

Team Games: 15:15

  • Human Croquet
  • Tug of War

Snail Race: 16:00

Five-base King’s Base: 16:15

Announcement of Competition Winners: 16:45

Community Singing: 17:00

Dinner: 18:00

Competitions and Entries

Arts and Crafts:

  • Children’s Drawing
    • Ages 2-8 – Pets
    • Ages 9-15 – Faces
  • Wild Bouquet
  • Sea Scape Photography
  • Verse Motto – Isaiah 43:1

Baking and Cooking:

  • Children’s Cookies
  • Chocolate Cake
  • Men’s Barbeque Sauce
  • Bread Baking

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Information and Event Details 

Race Details:

Age Limits: All children’s races and competitions are for children 12 or under. For the Toddlers’ Race, the child must be three years of age or younger.

  • Cycling Race: Contestants must be over 12 years of age. The cyclist will be sent off at one-minute intervals to complete the route around the block (approximately 5 km).
  • Foot Race: Contestants will be running a distance of one mile along the Kilmaquague Road.
  • Children’s Foot Race: Contestants will be running approximately 100 metres on the church property.

Snail Race:

Bring a snail from your garden to compete in this race. All snails will be placed in a central circle to begin. The snail to first cross the outer circle is the champion. Anyone is welcome to join.

Team Games

  • Human Croquet: Join a team of other humans to play croquet, but with humans for wickets and the entire playing field as the croquet green.
  • Tug of War: Join a team of other humans to pull on one end of a thick rope.

Community Singing:

A singing of harvest hymns and other old favourites will occur at 17:00 and run until 17:45. Singing will take place out of the Mennonite Hymnal and Hymns of the Church and will be led by William Gregory-Smith. Everyone is strongly urged to join in this communal worship experience, no matter what singing experience one has.

Dinner:

Dinner will be served at 18:00 in the church dining room. Everyone is welcome, and no contribution is mandatory. If you are interested in contributing, please bring a traditional dish from your family or background.

Competition Entry Details:

  • Children’s Drawing:
    • Children from 2-8 years of age can enter a drawing or painting themed around “Pets.” Please include the child’s full name and age.
    • Children from 9-15 years of age can enter a drawing or painting of a “Human Face.” Please include the child’s full name and age.
  • Wild Bouquet: This completion is open to anyone of any age. The flowers must be gathered or picked—not purchased. Please include your name and age.
  • Personal Photography: Anyone is welcome to enter a picture of a seascape taken in the past year. Editing is permissible.
  • Verse Motto: Anyone is welcome to enter a decorated rendition of Isaiah 43:1 that could be hung on a wall.   
  • Children’s Cookies: Children of 12 or younger may enter a cookie that they baked. Please include a tag with the child’s name and age.
  • Chocolate Cake: This competition is open for contestants thirteen years of age or older, who are invited to bake a chocolate cake.
  • Men’s Barbeque Sauce: All men are welcome to enter a sauce of their own creation.
  • Bread baking: Anyone is welcome to bring a loaf of home-baked bread. Any type of bread is eligible: sour-dough, French, whole-grain, or white.

Side Show Explanations:

  • Giant Jenga: Try your skill at pulling blocks of wood from a tower without toppling the whole thing!
  • Mate Tug: Compete against your mate to see who can last longer while standing on a stump pulling against each other.
  • Corn Hole: Score points for your team by throwing the corn bag through the hole on the board.
  • Giant Connect Four: Match your wits with your opponent while trying to place four discs consecutively in the huge playing board.
  • Guess the Weight of the Pig: Utilize to the maximum your weight-judging perspicacity to accurately determine how much a pig weighs.