12TH ANNUAL GREAT COOKIE EXCHANGE - FREE COMMUNITY HOLIDAY PARTY

Center for Community Arts invites everyone to its 12th Annual Great Cookie Exchange, Monday, December 4 at 6:00 p.m. at Cape May City Elementary School, 921 Lafayette Street, Cape May 08204. Bring the kids and grandkids and usher in the holiday season with this joyous community holiday party! This growing tradition is free, open to kids of all ages and the young at heart. (Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.) You are encouraged to bring cookies to share.

No time to bake? For the first time this year, Michel Gras, the fantastic owner/pastry chef at La Patisserie in Cape May, will sell high quality cookie dough that you can donate to the event for just $1.50 a pound. He will even deliver the dough to the event site for you. And you will ensure that more kids get to make and decorate their own cookies. You can call 884-7107 today to place your order.

Santa arrives at the Great Cookie Exchange a little after 6:00, ushered through the festivities by Jane Sbarra and her caroling holiday elves. Santa will be available through the evening for photographs for a small fee, and there will be a holiday gift raffle to benefit Center for Community Arts. All other activities at the event are entirely free. Kids can roll out dough and decorate cookies, which will be baked in the school’s ovens by volunteers and distributed at the Cookie Exchange Table. They can decorate baskets in which to take home the cookies of their choice, make and decorate holiday hats and greeting cards. A refreshment table provides milk and juice for kids and coffee and tea for the young at heart.

There will also be opportunities to win holiday gifts for kids and adults alike in the Great Cookie Exchange raffle. First prize is a bicycle generously donated by Swain’s Ace Hardware. Raffle tickets will be available the evening of the Great Cookie Exchange. The drawing will take place at 7:45.

For more information about the Great Cookie Exchange or to volunteer, call 884-7525.