All summer long you toiled in the garden with the kids. The time has come for the harvest. Here are a few ideas for having a harvest celebration with your kids. May it bring the joy back to the garden!

Bonfire
A bonfire is a fire started in a pile, preferably in a controlled area such as a fire pit surrounded by stones and other material that won’t catch on fire. It is usually continuously fed with logs and branches until it is no longer needed or wanted.

Traditions over the years have been added to the bonfire. Cooking hot dogs and roasting marshmallows are just a couple of the traditional things people do by a bonfire. Coming together to celebrate is the wonderful part of this tradition.

A bonfire is very synonymous with warm summer nights and camping. It has been associated with summer because of the ancient traditions surrounding the bonfire. Many believe the bonfire started with religious practices, signifying the end of summer and the beginning of the harvest.

Start the bonfire and have a sing-a-long session or have all members present tell a story. To make it thematic for the harvest, tell stories that relate to food.

Harvest meal
What we now call the First Thanksgiving was a harvest meal. The Colonists and Wampanoag Indians celebrated a great feast together for three days. While the great feast was never again repeated the same way, you can still celebrate the harvest through a special harvest meal. You can have a harvest meal whether you have a garden or not.

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