All parents look for local activities
to keep their children entertained for at least a few minutes,
homeschool parents love local events that are fun, interactive and of
course cheap.
Touch the truck at the Lambton Mall in
Sarnia had been boasting for weeks to be a fun and engaging event
where kids could touch the trucks of their childhood dreams. Blaine
can't get enough of trucks and I fingered it was going to be an
awesome event.
I was thoroughly disappointed. For most
parents it would have been great there was face painting, balloon
animals, fire trucks, a hydro truck, a city bus, a Zamboni, a
tractor, a tow truck, 3 bounce houses, a rock climber, a princess,
the toys r us giraffe, a few food vendors and a few free items for
the kids to take home. Was it a great fun time, yes and the price was
awesome $5.00 and it went to the rebound program! Here is my issue
they made it seem like there was going to be dump trucks and other
construction trucks, where wasn't any. The line to get in was an hour
long, thank goodness for the rain those made of sugar left and made
the line shorter. Blaine wanted nothing to do with those trucks and
such because he has seen and been in them all when we do the
firehouse with homeschool group. He loved the bounce houses, the free
sunglasses hydro was giving out were adult sized, not made for
children :(.
All in all, yes he had a good time
playing in the bounce houses, but we were looking forward to
construction trucks. I would love to see it happen again with more
activities for the children.
Such as:
Firefighters fully dressed
Dump Trucks
Police Car
Back Hoes
Front Loaders
Construction signs
Construction workers
Sand area with toys
Such as:
Firefighters fully dressed
Dump Trucks
Police Car
Back Hoes
Front Loaders
Construction signs
Construction workers
Sand area with toys
and so much more the ideas are endless
with an event such as this.
Please don't get my wrong I am grateful
for groups that put these events on for fundraisers for community
groups but I feel more planning needs to go into them.
