The Key Club of Sulphur Springs High School hosted a fabulous Easter Egg Hunt and Party, complete with the Easter Bunny, at Kids’ Kingdom on Thursday, March 24, 2016, 9:30-1:00, for 250 ECLC Head Start 4 and Pre-K students. This local service event was organized by Mrs. Mylissa Bailey, Key Club sponsor. |
Activities for the four-year-olds included hunting Easter eggs, enjoying various learning and fun game stations, and eating a picnic lunch, all provided as a service to our students, and all at no charge. Lunch was prepared by the local Kiwanis Club. Each child had the opportunity to hunt among a vast array of candy-stuffed Easter eggs, which were donated by Key Club members, as well as participate in the following ten stations: piñata breaking, book reading, egg relay, playtime on the equipment, duck-duck-goose, individual photos with the Easter Bunny, removable tattoos, bean bag toss, bouncy races, and parachute. Key Club members were assigned to monitor small groups of our young students in order to provide them direction and instruction for the morning’s events.
Some points of historical interest about the Key Club…it is the oldest and largest service program for high school students in the world, having formed in 1925 in Sacramento, California, with 11 charter members. Today, the Key Club has more than 270,000 members in 5,000 clubs in 37 countries. Key Club was the idea of two Sacramento Kiwanis Club members, Albert C. Olney and Frank C. Vincent, who were also high school administrators. They approached their Kiwanis Club with the idea of starting a junior service club in the high school, with its organization resembling that of the Kiwanis.