Messy Morning 2018

Families wait in line to enter the Arena Building for the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

Londyn Jones, 3, plays with pink slime during the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

Lilly Moll, 6, eats an ice cream treat while at the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

Kids play in a tub of water-soaked beads at the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

Soni Lloyd claps her hands together to shake off the shaving cream at the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

Courtanie Vaughn talks with a child at the Safe House for Women's booth at the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

Lennon Depro, 2, rubs her hands together with shaving cream while at the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

Bracelee Martin, 3, plays in a shaving cream mix during the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

Lennon Depro, 2, holds a prize after digging through a kiddie pool of water, food coloring and shaving cream at the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

A child wipes his hands off on his guardian's shirt at the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

Josephine Oliphant, 4, blows bubbles at a station during the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

Korbin Jackson, 2, throws shredded paper on himself during the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

A child reaches his arms out to hug Andy the Armadillo at the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

Parents watch as children partake in activities at the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

Families gather in the Arena Building for the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

Kai Bullard, 1, blows bubbles with the help of his dad Jimmy Smith at the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

A parent holds a completed art piece while children paint with bubble wands at the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

Dante Kennedy, 1, is held on stage by his father Jacob Kennedy while he watches Jimmie Miller, center, teach a dance class while at the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

Young girls stand and wait for their next dance instruction by Jimmie Miller at the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

Jimmie Miller teaches kids dance moves at the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)

Cali Jones, 4, is helped out of a firetruck brought out by the Cape Girardeau Fire Department at the Messy Morning event hosted by Community Caring Council to celebrate "Week of the Young Child" Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Area Park in Cape Girardeau. (Kassi Jackson ~ Southeast Missourian)