Carey Hall residence get creative with painting pumpkins
Painted solid green and with a white eye, Menominee freshman Abby MacCormack said her pumpkin was sure to win.
“It is sweet. We are making a cyclops,” she said.
It was an evening filled with excitement and creativity as more than 100 Carey Hall residents gathered together to demonstrate their painting skills on pumpkins.
There were pumpkins painted in solid colors, while others were done wildly, with no idea on what to call them.
Midland freshman Adam Chatterton described his wild-looking pumpkin as a metaphor to an anti-drug commercial.
“This is a pumpkin and this is a pumpkin on drugs,” he said. “I just let the creative spirit take over.”
As much as Chatterton declared his pumpkin would win, he did not prevail. In the end, Chesterfield freshmen James Mackey and Brandon Debus,, Midland freshman Rael Cortes and Lansing freshman Zach Harvey won with a Ghostbusters-themed pumpkin. MacCormack’s pumpkin came in second place.
“Everyone else was doing faces or flowers,” Mackey said. “We wanted to be different.”
He went and googled some things and the group decided to go with the Ghostbusters symbol.
“It was a little bit difficult to draw with pen,” Cortes said.
Debus painted the pumpkin after the design was drawn.
“I did a lot of painting in high school. It was pretty easy to do,” Debus said.
Roseville freshmen Kristina Martin and Jaclyn Martin painted their pumpkin with no particular plan in place.
“Whatever comes to mind,” Jaclyn Martin said. “It is a free-spirited pumpkin, we are using many bright colors.”
Carey Hall Residence Hall Director Brian Ulrich said hall hosted the pumpkin painting to prepare for Halloween.
The pumpkins will be set outside the doors of the residents’ rooms during trick or treating on Halloween night. The hall council purchased 60 pumpkins along with cider and doughnuts for the event.
Detroit freshman and Hall Council President Jordan Jetter said they decided to put together the pumpkin painting contest for residents because it would be a great activity for everyone to participate in.
“I am really happy with the turnout,” Jetter said. “It was more people then we first thought would come.”
