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Stanmore Bay is the latest school to add a colour run to its fundraising calendar, hosting its first Colour Blast on Friday November 1.
Event organiser and Stanmore Bay PTA member, Nicky Morrow, says hosting the colour run was a great way to engage students from all year levels.
“Some seniors can become a bit too cool for events such as discos, but everyone – even the adults – had a great time at the Colour Blast,” she says.
Students agreed that the event was lots of fun, but the biggest challenge was keeping the powder, made from cornflour and food grade colour dyes, out of their mouths.
“It tasted like dried pasta covered in flour,” Jayden Stace, Year 6, says.
Runners were squirted with water to help the colours stick, before they ran over hurdles, through tunnels and under cargo nets, while being showered with colour.
After the run, each age group was showered in even more colour as they each threw their own bag of paint powder into the air.
Separating the powder into individual paper bags for every student was a task Nicky, with the help of other school parents, took on at Nicky’s house.
“My garage is still pretty colourful at the moment,” she laughs.
Around $1463 worth of paint packs were purchased for the event, Nicky says.
The PTA tried to make the event as close to a zero waste event as possible by using paper bags instead of plastic and reusing all parts of the obstacle course.
The event raised around $6500.
The money will go towards putting Astroturf on the school’s top court, which will cost $24,000.
