On Sunday, April 2, the Wayland Children and Parents Association (WCPA) held their annual spring Egg Hunt at the Loker Elementary School field. Families with young children were invited to come to the event, which featured face painting, a DJ and a hunt for candy and prize-filled eggs.

“Traditionally [the egg hunt has] been at Loker, at least for the past few years,” WCPA member and event organizer Caroline Connors said. “This is the first year we’ve had a DJ and face painting and other things [besides the egg hunt].”

The WCPA, a membership organization with families with young children, holds the egg hunt anually. The WCPA organizes children and family activities throughout the year, with the egg hunt being one of the organization’s first spring activities.

“The WCPA basically comes up with children’s activities throughout the town, particularly for very young kids who aren’t quite school-aged yet” Connors said. “There’s lots of other events, there’s volunteer opportunities and other families are welcome to join if they want to.”

The event provided a fun spring activity for young kids in Wayland. In addition, the event brought together people from across town and offered a way for Wayland families to connect with one another.

“It’s really wonderful,” Connors said. “Families can come, they can see each other, it’s outdoors [and] it’s spring. It’s a great way for kids to see each other, get together and play and kind of have a spring themed activity.”

This year’s egg hunt also featured a DJ, as well as face painting by Wayland High School volunteers. Many of these high school volunteers found out about the opportunity through WHS’ National Honor Society chapter and reached out to take part in the activity.

“I really liked the event,” WHS junior and volunteer Ellie Brogan said. “My favorite part of it was probably interacting with the kids and getting to face paint, because it was something I had never done before and really enjoyed when I was young.”

For Connors, the egg hunt offered a way for her to become more involved in the Wayland community. Especially as a first-time organizer of the event, Connors was excited by how well the activity turned out.

“I really liked how excited the kids were,” Connors said. “I’m a former teacher, so it was fun to help [the kids] do an activity that was a little more organized, with the music and everything. Seeing the kids and how much fun they had was really wonderful, and having the high school volunteers was really great as well. It was just a really wonderful family event.”

Many Wayland children and parents enjoyed this year’s WCPA egg hunt. Whether it was due to getting their face painted or searching for prize-filled eggs, many kids left the egg hunt with smiles on their faces.

“I have done face painting events in the past [and] it is super nice to see the kids having fun,” junior and volunteer Julia Sun said. “It is great that Wayland has events like these to build a strong community.”

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Junior Julia Sun volunteers at the face painting station, where she draws a rainbow on a girl's hand.