Class representatives throw handfuls of candy into the crowds of students dressed up in various costumes, separated into their respective grade levels’ sections.

The annual Fall Festival held by SGA is where students and teachers gather together in the gym during an extended lunch to celebrate Halloween and the fall season. The festivities began with games like pie eating, “Mummy Wrapping”, “Queen’s Request”, and “Granny Pants”, and included a performance by dance senior Ashton Smith accompanied with rap music by theatre junior George Bostic and vocal senior Larry Perez, also known as King Smooth and Rezzo Cuba, and a special recording of a segment of the Lip Dub. 

“The festival brought me so much joy, especially when getting the chance to participate, and being able to team up with my friends,” communications senior Byanka Paccha said. “It was great to hear everyone cheering us on, no matter the outcome.”

One of the games during Fall Festival was “Mummy Wrapping”, where each grade teamed up with a teacher to wrap them in toilet paper resembling mummies. After one minute, the team with the best looking toilet paper mummy wins the game. This year, theatre seniors Tyler Schmaling, Liam Demary, and Lucas Lacey and digital media senior Coral Johnston won the game by wrapping math teacher Timothy Freeman. 

“It was really fun but very stressful,” Lacey said. “There were a lot of people depending on us to win. Tyler and I actually have a class with Mr. Freeman, and we spent the last period deciding on a plan.”

A spin on cal chairs, “Queen’s Request” was a new game added to the lineup of Fall Festival events. The game entailed Principal Blake Bennett, dressed as Cinderella, reading out an item from a list in her storybook where each of the two players would have to find said object from the audience in their respective grade level. Each round, a chair was removed and the last person to find the object and seat was eliminated. Winning this game and scoring points for his class was vocal sophomore Beau McDowell. 

“I think ‘The Queen’s Request’ was pretty interesting because it was one, unexpected, and two, completely different and broke tradition,” communications senior Josiah Manners said.

Since teams were split up by grade level, each class cheered for whoever was representing them in the games. Visual senior Siena Barefoot added that watching her friends participate in the games gave her “a rush of energy.” 

“Even though we have school on Halloween, Dreyfoos does an amazing job of making things fun,” Barefoot said. “Everyone had creative costumes which really showed how fun and participatory our school is.” 

SGA has spent their third period classes preparing for this event for the past 3 weeks and dedicated their entire day after school the day before the event in order to create the class posters and set up the space. 

“It was really collaborative, and I just think that there was really great effort from everybody,” SGA co-treasurer and piano junior Luca Weisman said. “It was so involved with all the teachers and students and it ended up being a lot of fun for everyone.”