handsful

Since moving to NC, we’ve found some amazing groups and opportunities for our kids. One of those is called Leadership Link. This group was started 4 years ago by 2 homeschool moms. They decided that they wanted to start a group where kids learned valuable leadership skills while serving their community. A place where they used their God-given talents and “bents” for His glory.

One of this years service projects was a homeschool field day called Wacky Olympics. The kids worked together for weeks to come up with the idea, the theme, plan the games, etc. Flyers and emails were passed out and around, advertising the event to all area homeschoolers.

Lainey poses with the mini mooncake cookies that I made for the Asia table. There were 7 stations, one for each continent. Each station had a table of traditional foods from that continent, and a game planned.

The day was started by introducing the Jr. Council (up to grade 5) and the Student Council (6th-12th) to the crowd.

Then, the dance team performed…Abbey and Marley are about 5th and 6th from the left.

Payton and Ethan helped with North America, which had a basketball game. The kids were divided up into teams by age group. Lainey was in the 4 and under group.

Payton helps Lainey choose a food to try from North America…she chooses a rice cereal treat. Can’t get more USA than that.

A race :)

Trying a traditional rice meal that is served in African orphanages. She liked it.

Ice fishing in Antarctica. Abbey helped out at that station.

All the teams rotated through all the stations. At the end, everyone got together to have one, big, “snowman” making event. With TP.

No idea who this is!

I DO know who this is.

Lainey tries to make Marley into a snowman. Marley helped with the Europe station.

Everyone had a fantastic time. The whole event went off perfectly…

Lainey obviously grabbed hold of the “wacky” part of the olympics :)