Harvest is in the air and to celebrate the children at Crescenta-Cañada Nursery School in La Cañada kicked off the holiday season with what can only be described as a “Fall-Stravaganza.”

The festivities began with a visit to the Underwood Family Farms on a sunny and warm Friday morning. Pumpkins of all shapes and sizes stretched off into the horizon, school buses off-loaded scores of excited children, and the air was redolent of harvest and the Moorpark fields.

The kids from Crescenta-Cañada Nursery School (decked out in their distinctive blue CCNS shirts) and their parents embarked on a tractor-drawn wagon ride between rows of marigolds and sunflowers and eight-foot-high waving walls of corn. At the end of the ride, the children rummaged through the pumpkin patch to find the perfect pumpkin to take home and after snack time the kids enjoyed the many other things the farm has to offer: pony rides, a corn maze, a cotton harvester slide and much more. The only hard part of the day was convincing the kids to leave!

The field trip to Underwood Family Farms was only the beginning of fall fun for the kids at CCNS. The school held a Halloween carnival with all sorts of fun crafts, games and prizes. Pin-the-Nose-on-the-Pumpkin, Halloween Cornhole, candy corn necklaces crafting, and many other activities kept the children busy. The kids posed for pictures and had an all-around great time.

On Halloween morning at CCNS was a big Halloween party and parade! The Darling Ducks (3 year old) and Busy Bears (4 year olds) enjoyed classroom parties with parent-provided treats; after, they assembled in the tricycle area for a costume parade and sang a spirited rendition of “The Trick or Treat Song” that could surely be heard by anyone within a half-mile of the school.