OVC Easter Egg Hunt

            On the 24^th of March Interact decided to have another little party for the kids from OVC and this time it was for Easter.  On Saturday we went into Mrs. Henderson’s class room where the donated cloths and books were and we sorted them out according to size and gender then around 10 the leaders of the groups went to go pick up the kids and where in charge of taking them to the various stations after about 40 minutes at each station. I was in charge of a specific station which was the Easter Egg Hunt. At that station I was partnered with Benazer and Wasim who brought the candy and the chips and we had to hide all of these treats around the jungle gym and the kids had to go hunting for them. After about 40 minutes the kids would go to another station such as gym to play games , the food court to eat , and the pool to swim.
            The first group of kids that came along were children about 8 years old or younger and some of them were really scared of climbing the jungle gym but after a while they got use to it and went looking for candy.( but they weren’t as excited to look for the candy as I expected them to be, but I guess the older kids would be). At one point we had an incident where one of the kids was with her mother but after a few minutes she had to leave to go to a different station and when this this little girl noticed she was gone she started to cry. After a while she stopped crying and got up to the slide and she didn’t want to either slide down the slide or get off the slide from the top which caused a little traffic jam at the top of the slide because other kids  were waiting to go down the slide. But this little girl started crying when we tried to coax her down.  So I had to go up to the slide and try to get her off myself because the whole thing was getting a bit annoying so I got behind her on the slide and I pushed her down the slide with me. At first on the way down she started whining but when she got down and off the slide she stopped whining and more or less forgot about the whole thing. Before we knew it they had to move onto the next station.

            The next groups that came along were all bigger kids and they were really excited to look for the candy which was really fun to see them get some Easter gifts along with some cloths and books from the previous stations.  But at times it was a little chaotic because we always had to put the candy around the jungle gym before the next group came but at times the next group would already show p before we could hide the candy and they would end up seeing where we placed the candy and they would find it really quickly. And at time the kids would go crazy fighting for the candy but other than that it was a really fun day and I could tell how happy they were to have come and do all these activities. By 1:00 the kids had gone through all the stations and it was time for them to go home and we walked them back to  the OVC. Even though this time I never got to see the kids go to all the stations I was able to set up a station and watch them have fun playing on the playground and looking for treats.