After weeks of hard work and dedication from our team, of both staff and volunteers, our rooms and stations were ready to go, with our team of mamas cooking in the kitchen.
Our staff and volunteers splitting up into 10 different stations.
Each station stocked with another surprise.
Then we waited, until all of us sudden you saw (or should we say heard!) hundreds of children in their uniforms filling the streets with white paper bags now decorated for Christmas. The first school had arrived!! Let the party begin!
Each school that arrived was greeted from different volunteers and organizations who had also made this week possible.
We then had them split into groups, and the children and teachers dispersed. Some heading inside to make snow globes, play Christmas bingo with marshmallows, and to hear/ act out the Christmas story all the while filling their bags with goodies and drinking hot chocolate. While the others were headed down to the field to meet Santa, make Play-dough Christmas trees, get their faces painted, eat a yummy burrito, make a candy cane reindeer and play different games.
The laughter could have been heard for miles.
With each group that left another came.
For 2 full days, every hour on the hour a new set of faces would come across our stations. But this time, rather than it just being faces, we knew their names.
Next week: Christmas part 3
