Slauson Middle School eighth grader Luke Murphy and Forsythe Middle School eighth grader Hayley Marchand operated the ladderball toss game during the Community Action Network’s Resource Fair and Winter Festival.
The kids were adorable. And Anna’s Kindness volunteers were suckers for adorable.
Middle school students Hayley Marchand, Luke Murphy, and Alex LeFort joined Anna’s Kindness this morning to help at the Community Action Network’s Resource Fair and Winter Festival. The students helped run carnival games for the festival, which provided support and resources for Ann Arbor’s under-resourced families. In addition to the carnival games, area families were able to meet with community organizations that provide assistance, as well as pick up food from CAN’s food distribution network.
Hayley and Luke managed the ladder ball toss game, which drew a stream of elementary school students hoping to win tickets for prizes.
The middle schoolers did everything they could to make winners out of everyone who visited their game.
“We would let kids keep trying until they won,” said Luke, an eighth grader at Slauson Junior High School.
“They were all so cute, I was handing out 10 tickets at a time,” explained Hayley, an eighth grader at Forsythe Middle School. “There was one girl who was winning tickets to give to her little brother so he could get a prize.”
Hayley’s father Chuck was in charge of a bean bag target toss game and was a hit with the children and their families.
Alex, a seventh grader at Forsythe, staffed the bucket toss game, which challenged the children to throw a bean bag in any one of three buckets from a couple feet away. As the morning wore on, the children seemed to slowly move closer and closer to the buckets.
“This one little girl, she was standing right in front of a bucket, and when I handed a bean bag to her, she just dropped it in and won,” smiled Alex.
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