Spooktacular Carnival was enjoyable for complete household

OKMULGEE – The MCN Head Start Preschool held their annual Spooktacular Carnival on the Mvskoke Dome on Oct. 24. Different carnival-style recreation cubicles and prizes made a day of household pleasant enjoyable. Participating MCN departments had been in a position to create their very own cubicles and have enjoyable video games for kids to play. 

MCN Head Start Preschool Parent Family Community Engagement Specialist Tina Ward (Mvskoke) spoke to Mvskoke Media about this 12 months’s Spooktacular occasion. 

This 12 months marks this system’s third 12 months of internet hosting the Halloween occasion for MCN Head Start Preschool facilities. They’ve gained extra involvement inside completely different MCN departments and packages, and Head Start needed to contain extra kids’s households this 12 months. Throughout earlier years it was held on the Okmulgee Indian Community Center, nonetheless with the overwhelming assist and participation they needed to transfer to the Mvskoke Dome to accommodate everybody.

This 12 months they needed to attempt one thing completely different and included extra carnival video games.

“As family involvement is a huge part of Head Start Preschool, we decided to host a Family Fun Day Spooktacular Carnival focusing on family involvement in making it a memorable occasion for the children and families. We had 295 family members (parents, guardians, grandparents) and a total of 64 fathers or male role models in attendance,” Ward mentioned.

30 MCN departments participated together with the National Council, Executive Office, Office of the Attorney General, Human Resources, Food Distribution, and Social Services. “We are so appreciative of all their involvement and participation during this event,” Ward mentioned. 

Ward likes seeing all of it come collectively and likewise seeing households’ engaged and concerned whereas spending their time collectively. Ward believes that the kids and their households loved taking part in the video games and, laughingly, that the youngsters in all probability loved the sweet extra. 

The occasion additionally featured a dressing up contest for the collaborating departments. MCN Elder Services received first place, dressing up as hippies. The second place winner was MCN Marketing and Tourism, who dressed up as Ghostbusters.