Children running around, throwing objects, getting paint on their faces and jumping on things. Sounds like chaos at first, but taking a closer look, it was all by design.

Northfield Nursery School held a pancake breakfast Oct. 11 with games and activities taking place afterward outside.

Once filled up from a plate full of flapjacks and sausage, the children had the chance to draw and color at a craft table, challenge their throwing skills at a bean-bag game, as well as sing and dance. There was also good, old-fashioned playground equipment to horse around on with newly made friends from other classes as well current classmates.

However, the two most popular activities of the day were the face painting and the inflatable castle the children could jump around in. In fact, after getting a star, balloon cluster, pumpkin or any number of other things painted on their face, many children returned later to get something completely different painted on the length of their arm.