Fall Festival Basket for Church Festival
By DW Davis
@DWDavis (25797)
United States
September 25, 2018 5:23pm CST
Every year around the end of September or early October, our church holds its Annual Fall Festival. This year will be the 64th year.
The festival features games, kids rides, bouncy houses, a cake auction, a jailhouse, plenty of good food provided by the Knights of Columbus and the Hispanic congregation, and more baked goods than you can shake a stick at.
The heart of the festival is the gift basket raffle. The schools contribution to the festival is that each class donates money to create a basket to be raffled off. The Knights, the Lady's Guild, and several other groups also put together and donate baskets. This year, my wife and I decided that on top of my class basket, our company, River Sailor Literary, would donate a basket built around my books and reading. Our baskets theme is "My Weekend is all Booked Up."
We put the basket together at home and took pictures of it. Hopefully, we can recreate it once we take everything to the church.
Does your church or group have any similar activities during the year?
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@crossbones27 (53005)
• Mojave, California
26 Sep 18
Sounds fun and a neat way to get some funding. I could not go though. I would end up in the jailhouse. I make bad jokes. 
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@crossbones27 (53005)
• Mojave, California
29 Sep 18
@DWDavis Oh OK, that does sound like fun. I would not mind a few minutes in jail for a good cause. Also I have to do another bad joke. It kind of teaches like real life. Just pay someone off and they will let you out.
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
26 Sep 18
The jailhouse is a fun thing. Someone "bribes" the sheriff into locking you up and then you have to raise a matching amount to get out. To prevent anyone from staying in too long, the maximum match is set at $2 no matter how big the "bribe."
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@Tampa_girl7 (54741)
• United States
26 Sep 18
Your gift basket looks nice
whoever wins it will be lucky 
whoever wins it will be lucky 1 person likes this
@wolfgirl569 (136039)
• Marion, Ohio
26 Sep 18
None like that here, but you made a lovely basket.
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
26 Sep 18
@wolfgirl569 I did, and it was. After my parent volunteer helped me set it up and wrap it, I took another picture.
@wolfgirl569 (136039)
• Marion, Ohio
26 Sep 18
@DWDavis Take the picture with you, it will be a big help.
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@snowy22315 (209193)
• United States
26 Sep 18
That looks great! I hope plenty become interested in it.
@FourWalls (86908)
• United States
26 Sep 18
The VA women's open house features a lot of themed baskets like that, usually made by various clinics or departments in the hospital, to be given out as door prizes. This year I won the "Redbox" movie night prize, which had DVDs, popcorn, candy, soft drinks, and a blanket and neck pillow in it.
@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
26 Sep 18
That all sounds like such fun. You must go to a large church. Our's is so small like so many rural churches these days.
@Poppylicious (11134)
• United Kingdom
26 Sep 18
When I was little we always had Harvest Festival. At both church and school we'd be encouraged to donate non-perishable food which would then be boxed up for local poor people. I always felt very proud taking my tin of baked beans or whatever to the front. Inevitably we always ended up with a box because we were poor!
