Clouds of color filled the air surrounding Oxford Middle School Saturday morning as kids and adults ran lap after lap to raise funds for classrooms.

Approximately 110 folks participated in the first-ever OMS Color Run.

Runners doused themselves with packets of Peacock Powder (colored corn starch), then began doing laps around the school grounds. Along the course, they were repeatedly pelted with more colored powder until they looked like rainbows with legs.

According to Casie McNeill, the seventh-grader geography teacher who organized the color run, the event netted approximately $1,300. The money will be used to help teachers purchase whatever supplies and/or materials are needed to help students, enhance their classrooms or conduct lessons.

McNeill said every year, a majority of OMS teachers each spend at least $250 of their own money on classroom-related items.

With the color run fund-raiser, she’s “hoping to lighten that load a little bit.”

Given this was the first one and it was only advertised for two weeks, McNeill thinks “it turned out really well.”

“I’m really happy. This was a lot of fun,” she said.