The migrant children of Lake Worth currently live in communities where they are unable to trick-or-treat  celebrate Halloween. Instead, they have to stay inside or wait for their parents to come home from work. Because of this, they’re losing the memorable experience that is having fun on this spooky holiday. So, SALTT club members here at ILS made sure that they got the celebration that they deserved. 

On Thursday, October 21, 60 SALTT members left school, put on their costumes, and traveled over to Lake Worth to split up and visit the two main schools, Escuelita Maya at Highland Elementary and the Escuelita Maya at Our Savior Lutheran Church. There, kids who are as young as 5 and as old as 9 were waiting, excited to see the students who have always provided them with such fun activities and surprises.  

Once they arrived, the SALTT students kicked off the visit by making sure each student got their homework done. Then, once that was over, the real fun began as the classes cycled through a series of activities. These activities included making plates shaped like witches, racing to grab candy, making a ball into a bucket, and decorating spider cupcakes. With each rotation came the opportunity of earning lots and lots of candy, for which the kids were extremely ready. Bags were filled with all kinds of candy and faces were all smiles as each child made a ball into the pumpkin bucket or put heaps of icing on top of their cupcake.