Family Fun

All day long family-friendly activities are available for all members of the family to complement your apple bagging activities!

Bagging Apples

The day’s main event - filling up 10 pound bags of yummy Cosmic Crisp, Fuji, Gala, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, and Honeycrisp, apples to fill your church’s orders.

  • Volunteers bagging fresh apples into plastic bags from a wooden bin at the Sharing the Harvest apple giveaway

    Filling the Bags

    Every bag of apples starts with hands working together.

  • Volunteers and community members sorting and bagging Fuji apples from wooden crates at an outdoor apple distribution event

    Fuji by the Crate

    Crate after crate of Fuji apples, ready for families to bag and take home.

  • Three volunteers working together to pack red apples into plastic bags at a wooden apple crate

    Teamwork at the Bin

    Volunteers young and old team up to get every apple bagged.

  • Volunteers filling plastic bags with apples from a large wooden bin at the Sharing the Harvest event

    Ready to Load

    Bagged apples pile up, ready for the trip home.

Pressing Apple Cider

Bring your clean jugs and bottles and take home fresh-pressed apple cider. Kids can help!

  • Volunteer hosing down freshly picked apples in wooden bins before pressing them into cider

    Rinse Before Pressing

    A volunteer hoses down apples before they head to the press.

  • Volunteers and a child feeding apples into a cider press machine outdoors

    Loading the Press

    Apples go in, cider comes out — a favorite family activity.

  • Volunteers and children gathered around a mobile apple cider press operating outdoors

    Cranking the Press

    Kids and volunteers work the cider press together.

  • Volunteers pouring fresh pressed apple cider into jugs and bottles through funnels

    Fresh Squeezed

    Volunteers pour freshly pressed cider into jugs to take home.

Something for Everyone

No harvest event is complete without pumpkins and leaves. No matter your style, there is always time for fun.

  • Smiling young boy standing beside a bench lined with hand-decorated pumpkins at the fall harvest event

    Pumpkin Pride

    A young artist shows off his hand-painted pumpkin masterpiece.

  • Group of children sitting in the grass decorating pumpkins together with markers

    Pumpkin Painting

    Kids gather in the grass to decorate pumpkins with markers and paint.

  • Families and children sitting in a grassy field surrounded by pumpkins to decorate

    Pick a Pumpkin

    Families sit together in the grass, surrounded by pumpkins waiting to be decorated.

  • Children climbing and playing on a vintage red Farmall tractor

    Tractor Time

    Kids climb aboard an old Farmall tractor for some farmyard fun.

  • Two smiling children sitting in the grass decorating small pumpkins with markers

    Little Artists

    Two kids put the finishing touches on their decorated pumpkins.

  • Three boys playing in a large pile of autumn leaves in a fenced yard

    Leaf Pile Fun

    Nothing beats jumping into a fresh pile of fall leaves.

  • Boy tossing a handful of fall leaves into the air while friends watch and laugh

    Leaves Fly

    A boy sends a handful of leaves soaring into the air.

  • Two girls and an adult building a pile of autumn leaves together outdoors

    Building the Pile

    Kids and grown-ups team up to build the biggest leaf pile yet.

Lunchtime

Enjoy the scenic venue and yummy lunch prepared by the members of Wiley Heights Covenant Church

  • Volunteers serving hamburger buns, ribs, and barbecue sides on the food line at the community lunch

    Serving It Up

    Volunteers dish out burgers, ribs, and all the fixings for lunch.

  • Families and volunteers sitting together at long tables eating lunch at the harvest festival

    Gathered at the Table

    Families fill the tables to share a meal and swap stories.

  • Families and children eating lunch together at outdoor tables during the fall harvest event

    Lunch on the Patio

    Families enjoy lunch together with mountain views in the distance.

  • Families and children enjoying a picnic lunch on the grass beneath a birch tree with mountain views in the background

    Picnic Under the Birch

    Families spread out on the grass for a relaxed picnic lunch.

Come spend the day with us

Packing Day is the last Saturday in October at Wiley Heights in Yakima. Mark the calendar and bring the family.

All about Packing Day → Sign up your church