Kids laughing, playing games, and having fun was a sight to see on Thursday, Oct. 10, at the Wawota Museum for a Kids' Carnival.
The museum began hosting the event last year as a way to get youth involved. The idea was to have children come to the museum for games and activities with the ability to go on a tour following the carnival.
"We just wanted to get kids into the museum and their parents," Shirley Corkish, an organizer, said.
Though last year the carnival was open to children between four-years-old and eight-years-old, the organizers decided to drop the ages to between three-years-old and seven-years-old as they found some of eight-year-olds were somewhat bored with the games, while three-year-olds who had gone with their older siblings had a lot of fun.
Overall this year saw 32 youth attend for a variety of activities and games including sac races, a hockey shoot-out, fish pond, football toss, potato race, and much more totaling 12 different stations.
With faces painted and temporary tattoos the kids went from one station to the next winning prizes and having fun.
A great success the Kids' Carnival was thoroughly enjoyed by those who attended and the Wawota Museum was happy to host them.
The museum, which depicts life on the prairies, has many wonderful treasures to be found. Having been started in 1980 with money from the Celebrate Saskatchewan project, the building was obtained from the Credit Union.
Donations then came in from those in the area depicting every facet of prairie living from a school house to sports to the home.
One of their displays being a scene found upstairs of taxidermy animals of the area including a beaver, gophers, and a number of birds set up as if they're soaring through the air.
The museum is typically open through the summer months of July and August for the afternoons, though closed on Sundays; they do open upon request as well.
They operate with a committee of 10 individuals who fundraise through a spring tea and sale as well as a Santa Raffle for Christmas, which will be coming again to the community on Dec. 6 during the Museum Christmas Tea and Bake Sale.
The museum will also be hosting the Parkland Museum Network meeting this year to discuss, with other museums in the area, problems and ideas regarding museums.
Overall the Wawota Museum is a little piece of small town prairie living from the past found in the present.
