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Community Cookie Swap
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for a way to spend time together with your fellow volunteers and make a fun gift
for members of your larger community? Have a cookie swap! Enjoy baking with your
fellow community members and then share your special treats with with friends,
neighbors, co-workers, etc.
As a volunteer community...
 | Gather your favorite holiday cookie recipes. think about sharing a
favorite cookie recipe from home or from a special friend. This allows each
member of your volunteer community to share a bit of themselves with
everyone.
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| Come together and make a plan as to how to share your recipes, gather
supplies, and begin baking!
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| Invite members of your local community (priests, co-workers, neighbors,
etc.) to the "Community Cookie Swap.
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| Send out invitations or make phone calls asking everyone to each bring six
dozen of their favorite cookies. Explain that everyone will swap them
at the party and take home a dozen of each kind.
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| Prepare for the party by decorating your house to celebrate your
relationships. Get creative... for example, transform your kitchen into the
North Pole Bakery—hang candy cane cookies from bowls, fill old-fashioned
jars with sugar-dusted treats and place gingerbread men cookies on Santa
platters.
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| Make sure you have one box for each person at the party to collect their
cookies in.
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As a larger community...
| When everyone has arrives, gather together, pass out boxes and line
everyone up to begin the cookie exchange.
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| Begin swapping cookies. This can be done in a fun way with the ringing of
a bell, blowing of a horn, or by just shouting out something like,
"Start swapping, I don't want a cookie left in sight!"
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| After a flurry of trading, laughter and fun, everyone is able to head home
with their tins brimming with cookies. Sleepy, well fed and bursting with
ideas for our own cookie swap, everyone has loads of recipes for some very
merry baking. |
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