Face paintings, cotton candy eating and the ability to climb into a fire truck and honk the horn made for quite an entertaining Saturday morning on July 15.

This past weekend, families and friends came together for Turning Point Day Resource Center’s Touch-a-Truck fundraiser hosted by D&J Enterprise to help support the center’s cause — and to sound the police siren, of course.

D&J Enterprise Co-Owner Tiffany Sergi said she typically hosts a Christmas donation drive every year to help support Turning Point because the mission “touches near and dear to [her] heart.”

The center aims to provide resources and support to families and individuals facing housing insecurity.

However, this year, the landscaping company moved into a bigger space and Sergi wanted to do more. Therefore, she decided to host a Touch-a-Truck.

She said people donated a lot to the cause, which added up to 60 raffle prizes.

Sergi said she encourages everyone to donate to Turning Point as the organization accepts them year round and not just for Christmas.

Filling the parking lot of the company’s new space on Charge Pond Road were a variety of trucks, cars, bikes and vendor hosted tables.

Many of the vehicles belonged to first responders such as the car of State Trooper Shawn Solomon.

Solomon spoke with the children, helped them into his car and handed out donated stuffed animals.

Bosco Burke, 4, took a liking to Solomon and with a hug and a new teddy bear he reluctantly went on his way to check out the other vehicles.

Solomon said, “I’m just really proud and happy to be here.”

He added community outreach events such as this one are great opportunities for kids to interact with police officers and other public servants and get to know them.

Animal Control Officer Devin Cloutier and Natural Resource Officer Morgan Mattioli worked together to help kids onto the Can-am ATV, including Aubree Falcone, 9, and her brother Vincent, 3.

Aubree said her favorite parts of the event were getting her face painted and going on all the trucks and Vincent couldn’t agree more.

Vincent had a Spider-Man mask painted on his forehead with a black and green spider taking up the surface area of his nose.

Aubree adorned a colorful silhouette of a palm tree and birds on her cheek.

Cloutier said the event was “amazing.”

“Honestly, I didn't know that there were going to be so many different people here and so many trucks and all these vendors and it's very exciting.”

Veteran Ken Medieros said he was a member of a Huey helicopter group and was there to help kids sit on the helicopter float that was created 10 years ago for a parade in Plymouth.

Medieros said the group is made almost entirely of Vietnam veterans who attend parades and other events in an effort to “try to not let people forget about our veterans that were KIA in Vietnam.”

Also among attendees of the event was a scarecrow from the company Dark New England.

Though its pumpkin face and height spooked some, others did not shy away from the opportunity to get a hug or a high five.

Tristen Sylvia, 6, said, “Seeing the giant pumpkin man” was his favorite part of the event.

“I think I just liked him because he was spooky,” Tristen said, adding he’s a big fan of Halloween.

Though not everyone is a fan of the “tricks,” they certainly had an appetite for treats.

This was the case for Lillian Mathews, 5, and her brother Cooper, 3, who exclaimed that his favorite was “the cotton candy part!”