Giving Back to Children's Hospital

DG's friend Steph is a graduate of Indiana University and often organizes charitable events for the alumni located here in Colorado. Her lastest benefit was an afternoon at Children's Hospital in Denver, creating a Halloween Fun Fest for the kids. We headed out to help her for a short few hours last Sunday.

The idea was to create a fun environment full of ghoulish activities for all the kids and their families to attend, to help them forget, for just a minute that they are in a hospital. She did such an amazing job and I think that it is just so special of her to do this. It took place in the lobby with fun games including, Mummy Bowling, Ring Toss on Witches Hats, Eye Ball Toss, Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin, Face Painting, Guess how much candy is in the candy jar, Pumpkin Painting, Mummy Wrapping, and Cookie Decorating. Everyone was a winner, receiving gift bags and prizes for each game.

Having been in that hospital for two weeks, we saw several programs like this, and I just have to say that I think it is such a good thing that these groups do to create such a fun environment for the kids in the hospital. Hadley and I got to help out with the Eye Ball Toss, and meanwhile, I got some great ideas for kids parties that I want to have when she gets older.