Deputy Tanner Cox of the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office brought a scooter-riding Annabelle Losee, 4, to a screeching halt Wednesday in the Hayden Library parking lot.

“What do you do when you get to the end of a driveway,” Cox asked Annabelle, along with about 100 other kids who made their way through the bicycle course. “We look both ways, that’s right. Do you see any cars? Is that car moving?”

The city of Hayden organized the bike course as part of the annual Hayden Bike Rodeo, an event geared to teach kids bicycle safety, provide bicycle maintenance and to give kids helmets.

The bike course wound through the library parking lot, littered with obstacles to teach kids safety tips.

A bus driver showed how to peddle around cars. Cox taught how to safely leave a driveway, and J.D. White taught kids to look both ways at a stop sign or to cross a street.

“What do you do at a stop sign?” White asked. “That’s right, look both ways. And what are you looking for? Cars and what else?”

The course was also designed to hone skills, like dodging stuffed animals or merging into one lane.

And while kids loved running the obstacle course, parents loved getting free stuff.

Kids could get a free bike tune-up by Mountain View Cyclery or a free helmet from Kootenai Health.

“We look at kids who have a helmet,” Kootenai Health injury prevention coordinator Kelly Bourland said. “If they already have a helmet, we look at it to see if it's damaged. If they don’t have a helmet we provide them with a helmet.”

Bourland and volunteers from Kootenai Health brought 110 helmets to donate to kids and the city expected around 150 to attend.

Hayden recreation coordinator Jen Arrotta offered small grab bags with free movie tickets and fruit snacks, and everyone got a bottle of water.

Other volunteers helped kids make license plates with stamps, complete with lots of reflective stickers.

Griffin Thomas, 5, pointed out the flashy reflectors on his new, very blue helmet and on the license plate he put on the front of his bike.

“You wouldn’t believe how fast I can go!” Griffin said, smiling wide while sitting on his bike and itching to ride the obstacle course.

Griffin’s mom, Jennifer Thomas, brought him and 7-year-old sister Beckett to the rodeo.

“It’s just a fun activity to do,” Thomas said. “The kids are out of school, it’s a beautiful day. We wanted to get together with friends and ride bikes.”