Orange splats: Gourds take flight at Belpre Elementary Pumpkin Drop
Gourds take flight at Belpre Elementary Pumpkin Drop
Photo by Evan Bevins
(Photo by Evan Bevins) Volunteer Chris Fennell “shoots” a pumpkin-containing box from the roof of Belpre City Schools’ Stone Administration Building during Belpre Elementary’s Pumpkin Drop Monday. Each year for the event, students in kindergarten through sixth grades design methods to allow pumpkins to survive being dropped from the roof and put them to the test.
(Photo by Evan Bevins) Belpre Elementary School fourth-grader Emma Alloway picks a treat from the display set up by Niki Bucy at the school’s trunk or treat event Monday before the annual Pumpkin Drop.
(Photo by Evan Bevins) Kids and families make their way through the more than 20 vehicles set up for Belpre Elementary School’s trunk or treat event Monday evening prior to the annual Pumpkin Drop.
(Photo by Evan Bevins) Containers designed by Belpre Elementary students to protect the pumpkins inside rest in front of the Stone Administration Building after being tossed by school personnel as part of the annual Pumpkin Drop event Monday.
(Photo by Evan Bevins) This pumpkin did not survive the experience of Belpre Elementary School’s annual Pumpkin Drop Monday evening.
(Photo by Evan Bevins) Kids rush to collect boxes to see if their group’s pumpkins survived being tossed from the roof of the Stone Administration Building as part of Belpre Elementary School’s annual Pumpkin Drop Monday.
Photo by Evan Bevins
(Photo by Evan Bevins) Volunteer Chris Fennell “shoots” a pumpkin-containing box from the roof of Belpre City Schools’ Stone Administration Building during Belpre Elementary’s Pumpkin Drop Monday. Each year for the event, students in kindergarten through sixth grades design methods to allow pumpkins to survive being dropped from the roof and put them to the test.
(Photo by Evan Bevins) Belpre Elementary School fourth-grader Emma Alloway picks a treat from the display set up by Niki Bucy at the school’s trunk or treat event Monday before the annual Pumpkin Drop.
(Photo by Evan Bevins) Kids and families make their way through the more than 20 vehicles set up for Belpre Elementary School’s trunk or treat event Monday evening prior to the annual Pumpkin Drop.
(Photo by Evan Bevins) Containers designed by Belpre Elementary students to protect the pumpkins inside rest in front of the Stone Administration Building after being tossed by school personnel as part of the annual Pumpkin Drop event Monday.
(Photo by Evan Bevins) This pumpkin did not survive the experience of Belpre Elementary School’s annual Pumpkin Drop Monday evening.
(Photo by Evan Bevins) Kids rush to collect boxes to see if their group’s pumpkins survived being tossed from the roof of the Stone Administration Building as part of Belpre Elementary School’s annual Pumpkin Drop Monday.
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Bryce Stettler, 3, watches from the shoulders of his mother, Belpre Elementary third-grade teacher Jessie Stettler, as a box equipped with a student-made parachute to protect the pumpkin inside descends to the ground after being tossed from the roof of the Stone Administration Building on Monday. It was part of the elementary school's annual Pumpkin Drop, in which students in kindergarten through sixth grades design methods to allow pumpkins to survive being tossed from a roof.