In collaboration with the Crafting Club, Drew Residence Hall Resident Assistants (RAs) put together the “4 Seasons of Fun” event on Monday, March 3, with fun activities and snacks matched appropriately with each time of year.

Every year, each residence hall plans an event in a friendly competition to determine who hosts the best one. Drew RA junior Cannon Yerama, who worked specifically at the summer table, explained that the theme of four seasons came about from all the RAs having a diverse range of interests, strengths and passions and trying to figure out a way to make them work into one event.

For the winter station, attendees were able to paint snowflakes and the northern lights, as well as get cookies and hot chocolate packets at a table with a blue table covering and cutout snowflakes decorated on the edge. For spring, the table had a green covering on the table with an adopt-a-plant station—specifically adopt-a-small-succulents. At the yellow colored summer table, ice cream with color-coordinated scoops, ice cream sandwiches and popsicles were served. In addition, this station also had a tote bag decorating activity with different colored markers and letter-shaped stickers to personalize individual bags. Lastly, at the autumn station there was button making and bookmark decorating with a brown table covering and with different fall colored leaf cutouts decorating the table.

First-year Dulce Cranbrook-Meyer, who was drawn to this event because of the adopt-a-plant aspect, enjoyed the tote-bag decorating activity in particular.

“I think it’s just nice that we can add our own touches to it and make it our own,” Cranbrook-Meyer said.

Aside from crafts and snacks, the event also had a sustainability theme. This included having an adopt-a-plant station and tote-bag decorating to encourage the use of reusable bags and the general materials that were used.

“A lot of the materials we were using can be composted,” Yerama said.

Yerama expressed that one thing he really hoped attendees took away was the importance of the earth and that it is necessary to look after this planet.

Throughout the two-hour event, there was never a point with a low number of attendees. There was a mix of Drew residents and non-Drew residents alike. Yerama was pleasantly surprised by and proud of the large turnout, especially because many attendees came and stayed for a good amount of time.

“I’ve never seen this many people at an event I’ve attended on campus,” Yerama said.

Cranbrook-Meyer said she thought the event and all of the stations did a good job reflecting the four seasons.

“It was a lot of fun. It was super cool just seeing all the things that can be done for each season,” Cranbrook-Meyer said.

At the end of the night, all the plants had been adopted and the ice cream ran out. Attendees enjoyed the event and as the buzz settled down, they left with a feeling of satisfaction.

“It was nice to do the crafts; the people here are very lively, and I had a lot of fun,” first-year Zariyah Wiley-Poe said.