Photo by Michelle Gordon | Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling | 10.21.2014
The Teal Pumpkin Project is designed to promote safety, inclusion and respect of individuals managing food allergies during Halloween. To show your participation, paint a pumpkin teal - the color of food allergy awareness - and place it in front of your house to indicate you have non-food treats available. Don't have teal paint? Simply make it with two parts blue paint and one part green paint....
Photo by Michelle Gordon | Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling | 10.20.2014
Although the project is specifically designed to help kids with food allergies, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB) resident, Heather Scott, says the project also helps make Halloween more inclusive for all kids. Scott’s four-month-old son Ryder suffers from laryngomalacia, more commonly known as a floppy airway. The soft tissue in Ryder’s larynx can easily fall over his airway opening......
