The Kids Helping Kids Family Fun Fair that will be held in mid-May is no small undertaking for the second-grade classrooms at Schaeffer Elementary School, but the event, which will include pony rides, food trucks, and inflatables, began with one simple concept - empathy. "All second-grade (students) work on an empathy project," explained teacher Laurie Fellenbaum.
Students in Fellenbaum's class began doing extra chores for their parents and others around Thanksgiving. The funds they received for the work totaled a few hundred dollars for Schreiber Center for Pediatric Development, a nationally recognized nonprofit organization that provides physical, occupational, and speech-language therapies, as well as educational recreational programs, to children living with congenital and acquired disabilities and developmental delays. Next, Fellenbaum's class worked with Christopher Burrowes' class to hold a Schreiber-THON, where students sought sponsors and then exercised for a full hour. The effort raised more than $3,600 for Schreiber.
On Saturday, May 11, the students will hold the Kids Helping Kids Family Fun Fair in Stauffer Park, 1241 Lititz Pike, Lancaster, from 2 to 6 p.m. Admission will be free and open to the public. Funds will be raised by fees associated with specific fair activities.
Among the many activities planned for the event will be an inflatable two-person obstacle course with a slide. For a special price, attendees may slide as many times as they want during fair hours. Pony rides will also be available at a per-ride fee, and a free craft table will be available for children to enjoy. Area businesses have donated candy bars for a spin-to-win game, and a Manheim Township School District art teacher and an artistically gifted Schaeffer Elementary sixth-grade student will provide face painting services. A temporary tattoo station will be on-site, and a local hair cuttery will provide braiding and coloring. A Lancaster radio station will broadcast from the park, and official Manheim Township vehicles, including a police car and fire truck, will be on hand. Other visitors will include two sister princesses associated with ice and snow, as well as Cylo from the Lancaster Barnstormers.
Food will be sold from three trucks, including one serving savory items, another serving soft pretzels, and a third selling ice cream.
Prizes and giveaways, which will be announced at the end of the Fellenbaum Fun Fair at Schaeffer Elementary on Monday, June 3, will include more than 40 prizes the students gathered from area businesses. Among the many prizes will be gift baskets, a tool set, many restaurant gift cards, gym classes and gym time, a health club membership for a family of four, tickets to a local Christian theater, and gift cards from a local shoe store.
To round up the prizes, students were required to write at least three letters to area businesses. According to Fellenbaum, each student learned how to visit a local establishment, ask for a manager, look that person in the eye, shake his or her hand, and explain the project.
Fellenbaum noted that attendees to the fair may pay for rides or tickets with cash or checks written directly to the Schreiber Center for Pediatric Development. More information about the fair may be found by visiting http://www.mtwp.net/schaeffer or searching for "Schaeffer Elementary School" on Facebook.
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