If it’s Easter in Huntsville, there’s an Easter Egg Hunt at the Wynne Home Arts Center. This year’s version was led by Victoria McClendon-Leggett, the Wynne Home Intern (courtesy of the LEAP Center), and the result was a great success!
With more than 150 people in attendance throughout the day, it was the largest such Easter Egg Hunt in Wynne Home history.
But with that kind of crowd, it involved extensive set up by a hardy crew of volunteers, such as Bianca Saldierna, who drove in from Rosenberg to help…
…and Bella Abril, who has served as the Easter Bunny for the past three years, and comes early to help place (they aren’t really hidden) eggs…
The event began with games and activities such as face painting…
…ribbon waving…
…Easter selfies…
…paper egg decorations…
…photos with the Easter Bunny…
…sidewalk chalk….
…and lots of sack racing!
Including races with Sammy Bearkat!
Sammy also stuck around for his annual showdown with the Easter Bunny–a paw to paw egg toss.
Of course, what most people were there for was the Easter Egg Hunt. With parents often suspiciously in lock-step with their children…
…the 1,200 eggs were soon located.
There were even golden eggs among the lot, and these eggs brought special prizes….
It was a fun day, made possible by the energetic folks at the Wynne Home, generous sponsors (thank you Target, Wal-Mart, and the Friends of the Wynne), and some great volunteers–thank you Jasmine Moss (former Wynne Home intern), Jessica Northam (former Wynne Home intern), Beatriz Martinez (former Wynne Home intern), Bianca Saldierna, Bella Abril, Stephanie Fors (who was the grill master this year), Michelle Hebert, Margaret Gulledge, Allison Faith, and Mike Yawn. Thanks, too, to Paul Olle who once again who volunteered his photographic talents to the event (his photos will be posted in the future).
