Over 40 Saint Ignatius students of all grades as well as students from Magnificat and Saint Joseph’s volunteered their time from 8:00 am to clean up until 4:00 pm to help out the neighborhood kids.
Students woke up, at a time when most guys are catching up on lost sleep during the week, and drove to school to set up the party from scratch. This included decorating campus, putting Christmas-themed tablecloths and candy on every table, and building a North Pole on stage for Santa Clause.
By 12:30 pm the school was filled with families enjoying the holiday season. Students lead each family around the party, pointing out and guiding them through each activity. The kids could have their picture taken with Santa, feast on pizza, candy, and cookies, play corn hole with older students, get their face painted, make a Christmas gift for their parents, or visit the book give-away. Here, children could take as many books as they wanted from a huge selection of donated titles. The give-away included children’s classics such as \”Where the Wild Things Are”
