EDIT: Thank you to everyone for your feedback and helpful suggestions! When I told my daughter she could wear a baseball hat and goggles and a mask or bandana and the powder would be a cloud, not a liquid like a splash park, she said she wants to do it.
Original Post:
My daughter's school is doing a Color Run fundraiser where they will throw colorful chalk into the air and it will rain down onto the kids. My daughter is in first grade. Her initial reaction to hearing about the Color Run is that she doesn't want to get the colorful chalk on her because she doesn't want it on her face. The organizers said they will have alternatives for kids who are sensory sensitive. She likes swimming and will swim underwater, but she doesn't like to get splashed in splash pads, and she does not like when water gets in her eyes in the shower.
Do any of you have experience with color runs and how kids react to this? I could just have my daughter do the alternative run without the colors, BUT there's a possibility that she could actually like it if she's mentally prepared. There have been times when I have encouraged her to try something she was initially scared to try and then she loved it. For example, we went on vacation and our hotel had a water slide and she refused to try it for five days. On the sixth day, she went down the water slide and it was her favorite thing ever, and recently we went to a water park and it was the best day of her life. So I'm torn....
Can you tell me how this type of event went at your school, especially for the kindergartners and first graders?