Fall Holidays at Respites!
Date posted: November 24, 2015
It was a tad early to be celebrating Thanksgiving, but we’ve already had a fantastic Respite Thanksgiving celebration! We also recently celebrated Halloween at the Allyn Campus during a Weekend Respite!Our Spook Fest Respite was a blast! Glen Este High School’s Key Club helped us to have a Saturday afternoon spooky trail. We had a costume dance party, painted pumpkins, and decorated a lot of camp to make our Halloween awesome!
![From guest appearances by the Smurfs, to a priest, to a court jester, staff and participant costumes were fantastic!](https://steppingstonesohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/IMG_4627-300x225.jpg)
From guest appearances by the Smurfs, to a priest, to a court jester, staff and participant costumes were fantastic!
![Our Allyn campus food service team cooked up a fantastic Halloween dinner! These stuffed pepper jack-o-lanterns were both delicious and fun!](https://steppingstonesohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/IMG_4638-300x300.jpg)
Our Allyn campus food service team cooked up a fantastic Halloween dinner! These stuffed pepper jack-o-lanterns were both delicious and fun!
![We made a lot of Halloween treats, and these ghost cookies were delicious!](https://steppingstonesohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/IMG_4642-300x225.jpg)
We made a lot of Halloween treats, and these ghost cookies were super tasty!
Our Respite just before Thanksgiving was also our Abundant Arts weekend, and we had quite a few creative masterpieces!
![We made clay pinch pots, and they turned out to be fabulous! Here's a picture of them before they got painted.](https://steppingstonesohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/IMG_4676-300x225.jpg)
We made clay pinch pots, and they turned out to be fabulous! Here’s a picture of them before they got painted.
![Tie dye can sometimes be a mystery, and you never know exactly how it will turn out. Our participants did a fantastic job though--this tie dye looks awesome!](https://steppingstonesohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/IMG_4719-300x300.jpg)
Tie dye can sometimes be a mystery, and you never know exactly how it will turn out. Our participants did a fantastic job though–this tie dye looks awesome!
To wrap up our November respite, we had a Thanksgiving lunch for family members and caregivers. It was a lot of fun to have so many people together. We are so grateful for our participants, family members, and caregivers!
![We had lots of fun making these turkeys! They're made from pretzels, rolos candy, reeses pieces, candy eyeballs, and candy corn. They were a delicious addition to our Thanksgiving lunch!](https://steppingstonesohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/IMG_4710-e1448396825474-225x300.jpg)
We had lots of fun making these turkeys! They’re made from pretzels, Rolos candy, Reeses pieces, candy eyeballs, and candy corn. They were a delicious addition to our Thanksgiving lunch!
Thanks for reading about our Weekend Respites! We’ve had a lot of fun at our Fall respites, and we hope to see you soon for winter fun!
Mary Allis
Coordinator of Recreation and Leisure-Allyn