MLEC’s biggest event of the year, Harvest Fest, will be hosted this year on Friday, October 13th. This must-attend event is one so large that students from other schools all throughout Miami-Dade and Broward County come. Music is blasted through the speakers across the gym, costumes are worn, the drama club hosts their haunted auditorium, along with many other fun activities.
For many, this is their first time attending Harvest Fest, so nothing’s better than some quick and easy tips to make this night one for the books.
At Harvest Fest dressing up is not mandatory yet students several students do it and always have fun with it. Finding a costume that will fit the school dress code isn’t as hard as one may think; the dress code is simple: no masks, nothing provocative that shows too much skin, and nothing inappropriate.
“I really wasn’t expecting anyone to go in their costumes when I went to Harvest Fest, but I saw so many that were cool and different which is why I’m dressing up this year,” said Amanda Castellanos, sophomore at MLEC.
Some appropriate costume ideas may include a robber, a scarecrow, and if you want to get creative and artistoc: a skeleton.
Dressing as a robber is simple; wear a black and white striped shirt, a black beanie, and a pillowcase where you’ll keep all your extra cash from your previous burglary.
Now, before you go and keep watch of the corn maize to keep the crows away, you’ll have to make sure you have the right attire. A flannel of any color, blue jeans, and the typical farmer’s hat to keep the straw from peeking out.
With the skeleton costume you can put makeup on and have fun with it, make your face a white appearance and with dark shadow colors, and you can hollow out your facial features to make it look like just bones. The attire can be anything, this skeleton is in fact coming back from the dead and reentering the modern world, they should at least dress the part since their face says otherwise.
Harvest Fest is also an opportunity for many clubs and class officers to fundraise for their classes and clubs. Among the items usually sold are funnel cakes, hot dogs, and you can even get your picture taken with friends at the photo booth to remember the night.
What not everyone is aware of, however, that money is typically spent during Harvest Fest; however, $10-$15 should suffice if you want to enter the haunted auditorium and eat lots of sweet treats.
During Harvest Fest many people sign up to volunteer to get community service hours. By selling for your club or helping the drama club in the haunted auditorium you can receive up to 5-6 hours of community service.
You can help the drama club by doing makeup on the actors, being a tour guide for the group of friends entering, or being an actor inside scaring people.
Joseph Odije, sophomore at MLEC who participated in the haunted auditorium said, “last year, I was an actor and had a pencil going through my skull. Scaring people and seeing their reactions was a lot of fun.”
You can also attend DECA’s pie in the face fundraiser and pay to get a chance to throw pie onto the faces of your friends and teachers.
Over all Harvest Fest is an enjoyable exciting after-school event that everyone attends, it’s encouraged to go and have some fun with friends. Don’t miss out on spooky, fun-filled night this October 13th.
