There is only one way to describe our Hanging with Heroes event :: SUPER! We spent the most gorgeous morning at Andover eCademy with more than 100 families, a couple superheroes, and some pretty awesome heroes from our own community.
A special thank you to our local Co-Title Sponsors, Wesley Children’s Hospital and Wesley Children’s Foundation.
In addition to providing expert care and support for the smallest of heroes, Wesley Children’s Hospital and Wesley Children’s Foundation sponsored a Teddy Bear Clinic. Each child received a teddy bear to care for as a medical professional. Temperatures were taken, bandages applied, and surgery performed (if needed) before sending the cute bears home with a clean bill of health!
The Location
Hanging with Heroes completely took over the Andover eCademy campus, and it was epic. We loved sharing this tremendous community resource. Families even got to discover their new eCafé while making superhero masks.
The Heroes
We are forever grateful for those who serve in our community and country to keep our families safe. We are especially thankful to the Andover Fire Department, McConnell Air Force Base, and United States Army Reserve for spending the morning with us and sharing their state-of-the art equipment with us. Families learned about all combative training in Army, the tactics utilized to disarm explosive devices, and explored a firetruck! A special thank you to the Donut Whole for providing a special {read: delicious} breakfast for our community heroes.
We also enjoyed hanging out and comparing super powers with Spider-Man and Wonder Woman from Princess Pros Entertainment.
The Food & Drink
With all of the activities, everyone worked up quite the appetite. We were so thankful to have snacks from Costco and yummy snacks and famous tea from McAlister’s Deli. Kiddos dove right into the fresh cotton candy provided by SPUN and an Oreo cookie custard sandwiches from Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers. Everyone enjoyed fresh juice from the renowned Songbird Juice Co. and popped over quench their thirst with water supplied by Natural Grocers.
The Fun
We had so much fun grabbing the paint brush a creating a masterpiece with The Art Park and dreaming up some wild ideas for face painting by Art on a Cart Wichita. And then there was the petting zoo hosted by Four Points Ranch Entertainment with each animal dressed in their own superhero attire! It was simply the too cute for words. Families were completely mesmerized by Twisted by Chris Conner as he twisted balloon superhero costumes, swords and bracelets. We enjoyed story time and coloring with Usbourne Books by Amanda Wheeler and showed our big smiles and muscles at the photo booth provided by Smith Orthodontics. Families also powered up with Dr. Viner Chiropratic at their trail mix station.
#WMBGivesBack
WMB partnered with The Treehouse, and encouraged all attendees to bring diapers or wipes to distribute to families in need in Wichita. We were able to provide enough diapers to help 96 moms! Thank you to everyone who participated in this initiative. Kids loved making swords with the volunteers from this awesome organization.
Those who brought donations entered to win awesome giveaways from our sponsors: Love of Character, i9 Sports, Dr. Viner Chiropratic, The Art Park, and Natural Grocers.
Photography
Sally Cavanaugh Photography truly has a gift for photographing all things family and fun. We were so grateful to have had her share her talents as the Event Photographer and perfectly capture the excitement at Hanging with Heroes!
For all the pictures, check out our Facebook Album!
All images in this post by: Sally Cavanaugh Photography
