Grace Market 2023

TVCS students volunteer blog - Grace Market St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church 4/9/23

- Sophia Choi

After the English mass, all the kids, teenagers, and parents went to the Gym. Sunday school students, parents, teenagers, kids from the English community, and older adults. At there, grace market there. Outside the Gym, people cooked chicken, twisted doughnuts, snacks, beverages, water, and hot dogs. Inside, we have booths to play, a basketball field, Jenga, and prizes. Most of the parents were eating outside and talking, and all the children went inside to play. Inside, there were six booths there. There was a cookie decoration, photo, bunny mask craft, limbo game, red light green light, and prize station. I did a cookie decoration station. My job was telling the kids what we were doing here, then after they finished, I gave them tickets so they could get prizes and cookies. I also give them a cookie that they can draw and explain that markers are edible. There were two kinds of cookies. One is for decoration, and the other is to give them after they are done. Soft cookie was also for decoration, but it is too soft, so we decidedjust give it to students. The first 30 min of the start of the Grace Market were quiet and a little boring. But then it got hectic. I think because they are done eating, they start playing at stations. However, there was a partner, so it was pretty okay. After this time passed, we talked with other stations and ate food and cookies. Prizes stations gave us plastic eggs, and we gave them some cookies. My partner did a bunny mask craft with her friends and cookie decoration. Some students didn’t take their decorated cookies, so we used them as examples of cookie decorations. When it is done, we start to clean them. Put chairs and tables, throw away the trash, and put stuff left in stations. Then we just talked with others and gave some leftover cookies. It was pretty fun, and I enjoyed watching the decorated cookies.