As Beyonce’s music blared from a loudspeaker, some of Mount Airy’s most ardent Kamala Harris supporters gathered on a leafy sidewalk corner Sunday morning.

It will be at least a decade before many of them can vote. Still, area elementary school students held their second “Kookies for Kamala” bake sale, bagging candy and collecting handfuls of cash from passersby at the corner of Crittenden and East Durham streets.

For $1 a cookie and $2 a bag, all sales will be considered donations benefiting Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign, parents said. The group raised $2,031 in three hours on Sunday, in addition to $680 from the first sale two weeks ago.

“The energy, the hope that’s in the air right now is just contagious,” said Raissa Schickel, who came up with the idea along with her 8-year-old daughter Kaia and partner Lauren Silver earlier this month as Democratic excitement over the Harris-Walz ticket grew.

“We really wanted to convey this to the children,” Schickel said.

Their plan worked. Sunday’s cookie sale was almost as atmospheric as the Democratic National Convention that had just ended.

Kaia, a rising third-grader, and her neighborhood friends were all smiles as they buzzed between folding tables, each one laden with chocolate and sugar cookies baked fresh Sunday morning at the Schickels’ house.

Others sat on the grass and drew colorful markers over signs that artfully bore the Democratic candidate’s name. To be clear, they were advertising “cookies,” but they were playing on the alliteration with Kamala by replacing the C with a K.

From the loudspeaker, Beyoncé posed a question-and-answer debate: “Who runs the world? Girls.”

“What excites me is that (Harris) is going to support equal rights,” Kaia said during a break from the cash register (the kids also take Venmo). “She’s going to help women get more rights.”

Most parents did not want personal information about their children to be disclosed, including their last names.

Parker, a sixth-grader and aspiring artist, hand-drawn a Kamala Harris sign for Sunday’s event. For the first “cookie” sale, Parker stayed up late, squeezing lemons for lemonade.

“I don’t really like Trump,” Parker said. “I believe in (Harris). I believe she will do the right thing.”

Silver, Kaia’s mother, said support for “Kookies” has spread like wildfire since the first event, with conversations in group texts and on social media sparking interest from nearby families.

Silver saw some new faces on Sunday as children paraded down the block to promote their bake sale on a busier street.

Several parents plan to split the funds and make individual donations to comply with campaign finance regulations.

“Of course the adults help with everything,” Silver said, “but we definitely want to put the kids at the center and create a space where they can be active and contribute their own passion and energy to something good.”

With school starting this week, it is not yet certain if further sales will take place.

Lucretia Browning, who has lived in the neighborhood for nearly a decade, had tears in her eyes as she stood in line to buy cookies.

Browning said she felt the country’s politics had become a “battleground” of division and she believed a Harris presidency was a way forward.

“We’re just so lucky to live in a neighborhood like this where the kids are involved,” Browning said. “They just want a better world.”