Celebrate the fall season at the 14th annual harvest festival in Brooklyn Bridge Park. A fun procession kicks off the event, which includes arts and crafts, storytelling, lawn games, and more—plus BBP's signature pumpkin patch.

Activities:

Nory STEM – Build robots and design creative circuits at NORY’s booth! Engineer a jack-o’-lantern rover and make pumpkin-powered musical instruments. Create a fun, hands-on memory and take home a proud robotic project, along with new knowledge and excitement for STEM.

The Bee Conservancy– Learn about some of the 20,000+ species of bees in the world, their habitats, and how to help them! At their table, explore bee specimens, books, comics, and a coloring station. Find out which bees pollinate autumn favorites, apples and pumpkins, and be join at Story Lawn for a story time readings of their original comic book, Bee a Buddy. 

Plover Project – learn about endangered Piping Plovers and other fragile beach-nesting birds and wildlife in NYC form this Rockaway-based nonprofit.

Brooklyn Music School – visit an instrument “petting zoo.” Stop by to chat with musicians at the table and try your hand at several instruments.

Brooklyn Book Bodega – Stop by for a book giveaway providing free children’s books to the community.

Trail Blazers Big Reuse – Information about curbside & community composting, compost-centric games for kids, and to pick up free food scrap kitchen containers and leaf bags.

Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Education Station – Learn all about the herbaceous fruit Cucurbita, also known as the pumpkin, at a special, pumpkin-themed Education Station. Learn about what a pumpkin is, how it grows, and what different kinds of pumpkins look like inside, in our pumpkin cross-section gallery. Explore your senses in our pumpkin seed sensory bin and be inspired by these colorful native gourds as you make your own pumpkin-stamp artwork.

Pumpkin Patch – Pick a free mini pumpkin to take home and decorate it with help from Private Picassos, a community art studio

Little Essentials – Is on site collecting donations of new and gently used clothes for children (ages newborn to 5 years old).

Facepainting – Choose from a selection of seasonal designs! Facepainting is free, but first-come, first served and limited one design per child.

Lawn Games – enjoy several classic lawn games, including giant jenga, cornhole, and more!

YMCA Obstacle Course – Dodge YMCA leads an exciting obstacle course for children.

Bubbles with Park Slope Parents – Giant bubbles

LIVE MUSIC
Stop by the main stage at Pier 6’s plaza (end of the pier) for live performances throughout the day at the main stage!

11:30am – Hopalong Andrew
1pm – Rollie Pollie Guacamole
2:30pm – JAW

STORY LAWN
Stop by for storytime sessions throughout the day.

11:30am – The Bee Conservancy
12:30pm – Brooklyn Public Library
1:30pm – YogieLand
2:30pm – The Bee Conservancy