Seeing the batting skill of daughter Taylor did not surprise Wiscasset’s Darcy Hinkley in the Wiscasset Community Center gym Saturday. The 4-year-old, swinging at ball after ball, and sister Kiannah, 6, are both very athletic, their mother said. The family joined others on day two of Wiscasset Parks and Recreation’s second annual indoor winter carnival.

Kiannah’s favorite part so far was an obstacle course, one of multiple inflatables children bounced in, negotiated and slid down as volunteers supervised. “I liked all of it,” she said about the course.

Zayda Morse, 8, of Whitefield took trip after trip down an inflatable slide. Her father Darren Morse brought her, brother Xen and sister Viela, 7 months, to the event after seeing Parks and Recreation’s Operations Manager Bob MacDonald talk about it on Channel 8 WMTW’s live segments from WCC during the station’s news Saturday morning.

MacDonald said the station asked ahead to meet him at 4:45 a.m., which was earlier than he would otherwise have arrived but he was glad to do it to help get the word out. “This was a huge bonus for us,” he said of the publicity the segments gave the event. Sleet and freezing rain impacted attendance on day one, Friday, but Saturday’s turnout was great, MacDonald said later.

Wiscasset Selectman Katharine Martin-Savage, volunteering at one of the inflatables, said her job was to make sure no more than four children were in it at once.

Parks and Recreation Director Lisa Thompson was on cotton candy duty, making it as volunteer Katrina Willey of Dresden held each bag for her to fill with the fluffy pink treat Thompson said she had figured out by day two. Twirling inward or clockwise was key, and letting the sugar build up, but not too much, she said. “I learned that the hard way,” Thompson said showing her finger that had taken the brunt of an attempt to remove buildup.

Willey’s family is at WCC a lot. Daughter Jessie, 9, swims there, brother Eli, 6, plays T-ball and basketball, and both play soccer.