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WEEK of November 26, 2007
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Countdown to the Holiday Craft Fair, Saturday, December 1

There’s going to be a Holiday Craft Fair at Brooklyn Friends School this Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, and by all accounts it’s going to be another fun and fabulous extravaganza for children and families. Proceeds from the fair benefit curricular enrichment at BFS.

Armies of craft vendors are readying their handmade wares, and bands of bakers are cooking hundreds of cupcakes. Parents and students have volunteered for dozens of jobs, and the gym will be filled with bouncy rides, carnival games and performers. The Library will be hosting a Scholastic Book Fair, and holiday plants and wreaths will be on sale. Everyone who comes to the fair is encouraged to bring a new holiday toy for an infant, child, or teen as part of the annual 6th grade toy drive to benefit St. Johns Place Family Center and MercyFirst Foster Care.

Download a program for the day’s events.

The main event is the Craft Fair in the lower gym. Vendors will include many new participants and some all-time favorites from the past including:

• Crafts made by BFS preschool, lower and middle school students

• Books, prints and T-shirts by BFS parents and authors/illustrators Tad Hills (Duck & Goose) and Laura Ljungkvist (Follow the Line). Publisher Christopher Franceschelli’s Handprint Books

• From our faculty and staff, Madame Perry’s famous truffles; Ellen Kahan’s stoneware pottery; Jennifer Knies’ knitting and felting; Ginny Terry’s knit hats, scarves and ceramics

• BFS Head of Preschool Karen Luks (photo at right) will sell pink hand-knitted scarves to benefit breast cancer research

• Beautiful silhouette portraits by an artist who will donate 25% of her proceeds to BFS

• Handmade goods from Kenya and Cambodia including musical instruments and textiles

• A professional photographer will create wildly unique portraits that will be available for viewing and purchase online and in time for the holidays (HINT: there will be snow at BFS on December 1st!)

• Extraordinary jewelry and wearables, art photos, hardwood spoons, hand-woven baskets, clocks, and MUCH MORE!

The Craft Fair also includes Carnival Games in the upper gym from 11 am to 4 pm. Get ready for the Bouncer Castle, Wizard Bounce, Face Painting, Spin Art, Ring Toss, Monster Stomp and a Giant Obstacle Course, other games and entertainment.

Another holiday fair favorite is lunch in the cafeteria, with lots of homemade favorites, a Bake Sale and Cupcake Decorating from 10 am to 4 pm.

Childcare for shopping parents (30 minutes per session) will also be available: Preschoolers (1–4 pm); K–4th Grade (10 am–5 pm).

An event of this magnitude could not take place without volunteers. The Committee has many more slots to fill and asks for all interested parents to sign up in the Pearl Street lobby this week.