Despite tonight’s storminess, the forecast is still looking relatively promising for the third annual West Seattle Junction Harvest Festival, 10 am-2 pm tomorrow. It’s on, rain or shine – activity booths are covered, so are Farmers’ Market stands, and of course local businesses are happy to welcome you for shopping/dining – so we hope it’s on your schedule already. As a co-sponsor and activity host, we’ll be reporting live starting around 9 am, so check in here in the morning. (And remember that California will be closed to traffic between Edmunds and Oregon, with Alaska closed between 42nd and 44th)

Meantime, one last roundup of festival info! The basics, again, are:
*10 am-2 pm, activities
*10 am-2 pm, Farmers’ Market in the street
*11 am-1 pm, chili competition on southwest corner of California/Alaska
*11:30 am, costume parade from Junction Plaza Park at 42nd/Alaska, led by the West Seattle High School Marching Band
*Noon-2 pm, trick-or-treating at participating storefronts

We’ve already previewed several of the activities (including ours!) and here’s a more comprehensive list (apologies if we’ve missed yours – this is a compilation of info provided by the Junction Association and sent by those answering a call for info) – read ahead!

Kidamentals.com: “Kids will transform plates, string, and fuzzy sticks into googly eyed spiders and webs! We will also share Kid Tested, Kid Approved special recipes for the Harvest Season from West Seattle’s own Registered & Certified Dietitian, Amy Higbee. We will also have a fun My Plate Pumpkin Coloring Work Sheet activity for kids!”

BitterCherryTree.com: New “mobile guest house” business “will be bringing our 13′ trailer to the Harvest Festival, where we will open up our trailer as a dry place for diaper changes and baby feedings as well as providing fun crafts for the younger toddlers. We’ll be making spiders by tracing our hands on black construction paper and adding eyeball stickers and making masks out of paper plates, popsicle sticks. The center of the plates will be cut out to allow for easy face placement with the younger festival patrons!

WestSide Baby: “We’re going to be holding a Petrifying Pumpkin Pass this year, which is basically musical chairs but with little pumpkins.”

Alki Art Fair – spider web marble painting

City Mouse – photo booth

Cupcake Royale – carnival games

Dream Dinners – placemats

Eastridge Church – carnival games

Emerald Water Anglers – Fly fishing

Endolyne Children’s Choir – make a musical instrument

West Seattle Eagles – fishing hole for kids

Hope Lutheran Church and School – tealight lantern and baseball hoop

Hotwire Coffee and EQ Fitness – photo op and craft

Pagliacci Pizza – hands-on pizza dough tossing demonstration with kids.

SSCC Cooperative Preschools – Sensory Table, paper mask, photo booth

St. John’s Episcopal Church – “will have a seed harvesting station – kids are invited to pull seeds off of sunflower heads, pea pods and poppy heads and create a seed packet envelope. The seeds can be planted in their own gardens next spring. All of the seeds came from St John’s Just Gardens – beds that we created to grow food for our community food banks.”

Sustainable West Seattle – cider press

The Little Gym of West Seattle – obstacle course or witch hat toss

West Seattle Blog and Diver Laura – iPhone microscope plankton viewing (and free WSB ice scrapers for the grownups)

West Seattle Kiwanis – paper plate collage

West Seattle Nursery – zucchini races

West Seattle Office Junction – “‘All about apples’ theme. We have an edible apple craft with a version for little kids and big kids and also a Washington apple word search puzzle. We will also bring our ‘Mummy Bowling’ set.”

West Seattle See Dogs – Origami Guide dogs

Westseattle Macaroni Kid – coloring pages, sticker craft

Westside School – spin the wheel, bounce box game

My Three Little Birds – kids can “stop by and make a hanging decoration for their house on Halloween. They can make a witch hat or a spooky spider.”

Infinite B Canvas Creations – “At my booth kids will be painting handprint harvest inspired trees on canvas panels.”

West Seattle School of Rock – “We will be running spontaneous 2-3 minute Little Wing activities throughout the day as large enough groups of little ones (about ages 3-6) walk up. We will also have electric guitars the kids can check out. We will have percussion instruments at our booth for the kids to use.”

Potter Construction will be there with a mini-pumpkin toss in their booth.

We’ll be adding a few preview pictures here later this evening – on now to semi-breaking news. See you in The Junction on Sunday!