Fall festival

This Halloween I decide to spend my time volunteering at a local church in helping with setting up games for the young trick or treaters that will be anticipating lots of candy after playing a few candy awarding games. When I arrived to the church there were about 20 to 30 vehicles that belonged to all the other volunteers that had arrived that evening and early enough to set everything up for that evenings festivities.

I walk to the front parking lot where all the games are going to be set up and I meet up with one of the other volunteers that happens to be in charge of the fall festival. She happens to be a woman in her middle fifties, dressed in a pink tee shirt and blue jeans and black and red tennis shoes. I immediately ask her what she would like me to do and of how I can be of help that evening. After a friendly and welcoming greeting, she points to a group of men that were inside of a large storage shed a few feet away and said go ask them if they need help setting up some of the game sets.

The guys obviously needed a few extra hands that evening, so after about an hour and a half of building and setting up the games, I noticed that it was about 6pm and kids starting showing up in large groups. All in different costumes, some dressed up as original super heroes, we had batmans, spidermans, ironmans, coming out of vehicles with large pumpkin shaped baskets or pillow cases, which were already somewhat weighed down from prior candy filled festivities for this evening. Others were dressed as witches, goblins and goons of some sort. While others were fancied as princesses or cowboys, Indians, football players, even police officers.

I helped participate in being in charge of one game in particular which was horseshoes. The object of this particular horseshoes  game was kids would play traditional horseshoes but with a candy twist. If one of the horseshoes simply landed close to the pole they would win two pieces of candy but if they actually landed a ring then they would win a handful of candy. Other games consisted of "bobbing for pumpkins," "cupcake walk", musical pumpkins etc.

This evening was very rewarding for me, seeing all the kids simply become so excited and joyous over winning candy from playing some sort of rendition of a traditional game. I'm looking forward to next Halloween already so I can volunteer once again at this fall festival. Possibly next year I will join the kids and some of the volunteers in dressing up in the spirit of Halloween, bwahaha!