October Fest

Halloween is near! Every year Gardner-Webb puts on an event called October Fest. This is an event open to the kids and parents in the community to come and trick or treat in a safe, fun environment. This year it was on Thursday, October 30th – the day before Halloween.

For the past few weeks, the Student Nurses Association (SNA) has been hard at work planning the decorations and activities for our booth at October Fest. Our SNA booth at October Fest had a skeleton theme. There were two activities going on at our booth. At one end of the table, the kids got to “listen” to their own heart, lung, and bowel sounds with a stethoscope, and at the other end they got to play a game of “Pin the Bone on the Skeleton”. There was a great turn out at October Fest. We had hundreds of kids come by our booth and we had enough candy to feed an army! I really enjoyed working and talking with the kids. I loved seeing their eyes light up when they heard their own heartbeat or heard their own lung sounds for the first time. They loved playing around with the stethoscopes and a few kids even tried finding their parents heartbeats. Our “Pin the Bone on the Skeleton” game was a big hit too. We blind folded the kids, spun them around and let them blindly put the bone where they guessed it was supposed to go. And, of course they got loads of candy for participating. It was a lot of fun for the kids and for us! I’m very pleased that our first service learning activity for SNA went so well.