Butterflies and Spiderman were the most popular choices during Saturday’s Moose Jaw Shrine Children’s Festival at Western Development Museum.
Of the two, Hair Design Academy student Sierra Tokarski said painting Spiderman on the children’s faces was definitely the more difficult option.
“Just because there’s a lot of lines involved,” she told the Times-Herald.
According to Tokarski, who volunteered with fellow Hair Design Academy members at the festival, there was a fairly steady stream of children coming to her face-painting booth all through the morning.
While she wasn’t sure if the face-painting practice she gained on Saturday would help her in a future career in cosmology, Tokarski said it sure was fun.
Greg Marcyniuk, event chairman, said “fun” is what the festival was all about and he believes the children, guardians and volunteers at the festival all enjoyed it, despite a rainy, chilly and overcast day outside.
“The kids are happy, and that’s the main thing,” he said, adding Moose Jaw Shrine handed out all its tickets for the event, which was free to all who attended and included free entertainment, free food and free admission to the museum as well.
Five-year-old Jenna Nash-Wilson, of Briercrest, liked the free cotton candy most of all.
“It’s nice,” she said. “It tastes yummy.”
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