Volunteer Opportunities

We need lots of help preparing for the Spring Fair. Please let us know what you'd like to volunteer to do! Here you will find the complete list of volunteer positions that need to be filled to make our Parent Event successful! Sign up sheets are posted on the front porch of the Big Building and can be found after 3:00pm during school days just inside the front doors. If you want to sign up but absolutely don't have the ability to visit the sign up sheets, or if you have any questions about Spring Fair work jobs, please contact Ellen Wilkinson. Coordinator Work Job Openings: Scrip Collection Coordinator - Your job is to make the rounds at regular intervals and collect the scrip from all the booths and activities at the Fair. You'll seal the scrip into individual containers, label each one and deliver the containers to a receiving area in the Big Building. The last shift of the day includes waiting delivery of scrip boxes from each booth coordinator to the receiving area, sorting the scrip into labeled containers, then collapsing the scrip boxes and returning them to basement storage. Inventory Control Coordinator- You'll inventory the delivery of rental equipment on Workday Two to ensure it matches our order, and tag each rental item to track their use during the Fair. During clean up you'll help manage a receiving area in the Woodshop for items to be returned to storage, track down missing items, then help return everything to their proper places. Finally, you'll oversee the return and direct the organization of rental items for pickup the morning after the Fair. Kids Food Booth Co-Coordinator - We've merged the Italian booth with the Kids booth! You'll oversee volunteers cooking pasta and heating up marinara sauce the morning of the Fair, then transferring it to the booth on the Big Field. You'll work with a Co-Coordinator to oversee that the food is served up, the booth runs well, leftovers are put away and supplies are cleaned and returned to storage post Fair. Toy MashUps Coordinator - You'll develop this interesting new booth that allows fairgoers to create their own toys using assorted toy parts and a glue gun. First you'll build a collection of toy parts by placing ads in Hot News, organize the set up of the booth, train volunteers if needed, ensure that the booth runs well throughout the Fair, and that leftovers are packed away and stored and the booth is cleaned up post Fair. Little Kid Craft Co-Coordinator - You'll oversee two of the craft tables for our littlest fairgoers, inventorying supplies, helping with set up, training volunteers, making sure the booth runs well throughout the Fair, overseeing clean up and returning leftover items to storage post Fair. Shadow the Departing Strawberry Shortcake Coordinators - Strawberry Shortcake is THE dessert Of the Fair! Our current coordinators will be hanging up their hats after this year's Fair and this wonderfully fun booth needs some new parents or a team of friends to step up and train alongside them this year, to be ready to run it on their own in 2007. Fair Day Work Jobs: Big Kid Rides, Coordinators Jennifer & Jose De Castro Cynthia & Michael Sholes 16 Tyrolean Traverse Workers Yo-de-lay-hey-hoo! This downhill run will leave riders breathless. There are four volunteer positions: Ticket Taker - manages the line of kids, sells advance tickets, and gives the kids an overview of what to do Harnesser - fits the kids in climbing harnesses Launcher - attaches the kid's harness to the pulley using two carabiners, guide the kids safely to the launch pad and encourage them to step off into thin air Catcher - waves to and encourages kids during their descent and catches them, then unhooks their harness and gives them a hearty high-five for their bravery For safety's sake, the harness and launch operations must be performed by persons with rock climbing or mountaineering experience. The catcher and ticket taker need only have an interest in having a good time! Big Kid Rides, Coordinators Jennifer & Jose De Castro Cynthia & Michael Sholes 8 The Wall Workers What a blast! A lateral traverse climbing wall that snakes around the handball court. We need a ticket taker and supervisor working together to run this activity. Help kids go as far as they can go on this progressively more difficult lateral traverse. Invent time and/or difficulty competitions and generally keep an eye on things. Please consider working the final shift and help us take apart The Wall at the end of the day. Book Sales, Coordinator Steve Feldman 16 Book Sales Helpers Needed Peninsula parents and staff donate heaps of good books that are sorted and sold at every Spring Fair. Proceeds benefit the school library. If you are a book lover, this job will be a pleasure, especially considering this booth's premiere placement on campus, just next to the stage and under the shade of the tall pine tree across from the Front Steps. Buttons & Badges, Coordinators - Ray & Vivian Neou-Curiel 8 Buttons & Badges Makers Needed Help fairgoers craft custom-designed buttons or badges using simple decorating materials and a special badge/button-making tool. This craft is super-popular and a Spring Fair tradition. Great work for volunteers with young children who must be nearby during their shift. Bette will help you practice this craft prior to the Fair and to will be on hand to offer backup! Cake Decorating, Big Kid Crafts Coordinator - Bette Henley 4 Cake Decorators Well provide the mini-cakes, icing, and decorating goodies and other supplies. Youll keep supplies organized and keep overzealous decorators from using too much icing, praise their efforts and lick your fingers a lot! Campus Clean Up, Coordinator - Casey Hartman 12 Clean Up Volunteers The Spring Fair is a huge party hosted by parents, enjoyed by parents, and cleaned up by parents when its over! As the day draws to an end, there is a great deal to do to restore our beloved campus to its original state in readiness for school to resume the next day. Everyone needs to lend a hand carrying tables, tearing down decorations, and hauling things back to storage. Its fun to linger at the Fair at twilight, reliving the fun of the day with friends and feeling productive in putting the finishing touches on a great day of celebration for the Peninsula community. Dream Catchers, Coordinator - Joan Dondero 4 Dream Catcher Makers Needed Under a large and shady tree, you'll sit with fairgoers on thick blankets and help them craft custom dream catchers, small twig wreaths criss-crossed with embroidery thread and decorated with beads and feathers. This craft is super-popular and a Spring Fair tradition. Great work for volunteers with young children who must be nearby during their shift. Training on making dream catchers will be provided in advance. Face Painting, Coordinator - Elisabeth Stitt 16 Face Painters Fairgoers, young and old, often delight in having a unique, colorful design painted on their faces. Using various reference books that provide step-by-step design instructions of varying degrees of difficulty, you will help fairgoers make their selection and with a steady hand and practiced eye, give them the face of their choosing! Flower Donors, Coordinator Holly Zuklie 20 Flower Donors Needed This year's Spring Fair will be held on MAY DAY, and what better way to help decorate our campus than to cover it with flowers! This is the time of year when roses are in bloom, which we love to decorate our cafe tables, stage and May Pole with. If you can donate roses and other sturdy garden flowers, please bring them in a bucket or recycled-milk-carton-with-the-top-cut-off (gallon size) by 9:00am on the day of the Fair. Forks, Coordinator Natalia Menendez 5 Fork Gatherers & Washers Needed Providing stainless forks to Fairgoers at the Spring Fair has a long tradition behind it. Coffee cans are stationed at all trash receptacles to receive used forks and these must be patrolled and collected regularly for washing and returning to the food booths. Good for parents with young children who can tag along to the classroom with you while you wash and dry. Greek Booth, Coordinators - Dimitris Stassinopoulos, Katherine Aitken-Young & Nick Nikzat 12 Food Servers Needed The Greek booth is a long-standing Fair favorite. You may be asked to help heat up food in classroom kitchens and transport it to the booth, grill kebabs, load plates, take tickets, keep the booth humming and serve this delicious food up! Henna Hand Designs, Coordinator - Pampa Biswas 12 Henna Painters Many thanks to Pampa for thinking up this great new booth! Pampa will guide you in the Indian tradition of henna painting onto hands using paisley and other beautiful and geometric designs. If you know how to decorate a cake using a pastry bag, you can work at the Henna booth. It'll be FUN! Pampa will provide a training session at school to introduce you to the process, date and time TBA. Ice Cream Sales, Coordinators Maurio & Elena Monroy 4 Food Servers Needed Who doesn't enjoy ice cream at an outdoor party! You'll have the oh-so-easy job of helping happy Fairgoers choose their favorites from a wide assortment out of two snazzy ice-cream carts! Little Kid Crafts, Coordinators - Nechia Clarkson, Lisa McFall & Keyly Pierson 9 Flag Makers Needed Little Kid Crafts is a place where our smallest fairgoers can make their own crafts, at their own pace, with as much, or as little help as they need. You'll help little kids paint their flags, hang them to dry, and help attach the flags to an 18 " dowel, with a smile and lots of encouragement, and generally keep the supplies organized and well-stocked. Little Kid Crafts, Coordinators - Nechia Clarkson, Lisa McFall & Keyly Pierson 12 Craft Volunteers Needed Little Kid Crafts is a place where our smallest fairgoers can make their own crafts, at their own pace, with as much, or as little help as they need, Peninsula-style. You'll assist little ones as they work on the craft of their choice: paper hats, tissue-paper shakers, tissue paper flowers, butterfly wands or colored macaroni necklaces. Simply offer a smile and lots of encouragement! You'll also help keep supplies organized and well-stocked and the area tidy. Little Kid Crafts, Coordinators - Nechia Clarkson, Lisa McFall & Keyly Pierson 4 Clay Volunteers Needed Peninsula students don't get to go to the clayroom until they reach 1st grade, so this activity is a huge draw for our younger ones. Who doesn't like to squeeze wet clay between their fingers? You'll help kids as they craft their own clay creations, with a smile and lots of encouragement, and keep supplies and the area organized and tidy. Little Kid Crafts, Coordinators Nechia Clarkson, Lisa McFall & Keyly Pierson 4 Lemonade-by-the-glass Volunteers Needed Help little ones squeeze lemons to make themselves a glass of lemonade using pre-mixed water and sugar. A simple activity, you'll help them master the juicing technique and practice pouring, stirring, then enjoying their own hand-made treat! You'll also help keep supplies organized and well-stocked and the area tidy. Massage, Coordinator Pam Wilds 16 Foot & Shoulder Massage Therapists Needed Provide 15-, 30-, or by-the-minute foot and shoulder massages to grateful fairgoers. The upstairs gallery will be converted for use as a massage area for up to four practitioners at a time. Interested, experienced body workers are asked to bring their own favorite lotions, oils, and music and are asked to coordinate with Pam to help supply massage tables and chairs. Rovers to the Rescue, Spring Fair Manager Ellen Wilkinson 4 Rovers Needed You would be asked to wear a walkie talkie during your shift and be ON CALL to any booth that needs your help. While you wait for signals of distress, it will be your job to check supplies and restock and tidy up the Ublek/Gak table, Bubble-Blowing, and Community Sculpture areas, which are unstaffed areas. You'll also roam the grounds and be an extra pair of eyes for the Spring Fair Manager for booths that need water deliveries, bathrooms needing new supplies, and so forth. Painted Pots, Coordinator Susan Amkraut 4 Pot Painters This is a very popular craft, especially for those fairgoers with Mother's Day on their minds. Fairgoers select a small or medium terra cotta pot to decorate with paint and leave to dry. Volunteers will keep things organized and materials well-stocked, and also help younger fairgoers, if needed. Painted Votives, Coordinator Amy Bowers 4 Votive Painters This is a very popular craft, especially for those fairgoers with Mother's Day on their minds. Fairgoers paint a glass votive candle holder. Volunteers will keep things organized and materials well-stocked, and also help younger fairgoers, if needed. Pie Contest Coordinator, Coordinator - Spencer Nassar 20 Contest Pie Makers Needed The pie contest is a much loved Fair tradition. Hand-selected judges study the nuanced flavors and crust designs unique to each pie and at mid-day, contestants are identified and rewarded for their efforts. Contest Pie Makers are asked to submit TWO IDENTICAL PIES, in dishes clearly labeled with their names for easy retrieval later, and with a note attached identifying the type of pies and names of the pie makers. Dishes left behind after the Fair will be left for pick-up in the hallway of the Big Building on Monday. Prayer Arrows, Coordinator - Joan Dondero 4 Prayer Arrow Makers Under a large and shady tree, you'll sit with fairgoers on thick blankets and help them craft custom prayer arrows out of 18" sticks, colored yarn, feathers, beads and the fairgoers' imaginations. A Native American prayer and sample prayer arrows are on hand to enhance the experience for everyone. This craft is great for people of all ages and a Spring Fair tradition. Great work for volunteers with young children who must be nearby during their shift. Training on making prayer arrows provided in advance.   Scrip Collection, Coordinator - TBD 3 Scrip Collectors A New Job! There are 32 food, craft, and ride booths at the fair and they all accept payment in scrip, which are deposited into scrip boxes. Each booth's scrip box must be emptied every so often so they don't overflow. Your job is to make the rounds of all the booths and gather their scrip. You'll seal the scrip into individual containers, label each one and deliver the containers to a receiving area in the Big Building. The last shift of the day includes waiting delivery of scrip boxes from each booth coordinator to the receiving area, sorting the scrip into labeled containers, then collapsing the scrip boxes and returning them to basement storage. Strawberry Shortcake Coordinators - Laurie & Alan Rappoport 9 Food Servers Everybody LOVES strawberry shortcake! You'll help load plates and keep supplies of shortcake, berries, and whipped cream well-stocked while you enjoy the great view from your prime perch on the front porch. Trash & Recycling, Coordinator Neil Kramer 8 Trash & Recycling Haulers Needed This job is HUGELY IMPORTANT as overflowing trashcans and recycle bins really puts a damper on the spirit of the Fair and demeans our beautiful campus. We'll provide the route, work gloves, apron, and a dolly. You'll simply stroll the route every 15-30 minutes to gauge which receptacles need emptying, and walk the dolly-load to the dumpster or recycling container behind the Big Building for emptying. Because the recycling bins can be heavy to lift alone, look for a trash hauler buddy to share this shift with! Wood Sculpture, Coordinator - Dennis Elliott 8 Sculpture Helpers Needed Help fairgoers nail and glue together their own wood sculptures using pre-cut wood, popsickle sticks, and various other decorative materials. Make sure younger ones have parents to assist them, and keep your eyes on wandering hammers and loose nails. Otherwise offer encouragement and advice and keep materials tidy and well-stocked.    Asian Booth, Coordinators Abbey Chen & Stephanie Choi-Freeman 16 Food Preppers & Servers Needed The Asian booth is always popular with Fairgoers. You'll help load plates, collect scrip, keep the booth humming and serve this delicious food! Burger Booth, Coordinator - John Schriever 10 Food Servers Needed Oasis Restaurant has generously donated all the food items and the use of some of their cooks to our Spring Fair for many, many years. You'll work with the Oasis guys to assemble burgers on plates, serve them, and collect scrip. Coffee/Tea, Coordinator - Dan Paley 4 Hot Drinks Workers Needed You'll mostly keep an eye on the coffee and hot water urns, keep the milk and cream containers filled, the cups, napkins, stirrers well-stocked and generally keep the table tidy. Some lifting of full coffee urns may be required. The goal is to keep it hot and keep it coming! Desserts, Coordinator Katerina Demeti 13 Dessert Salespersons Needed Smile and enjoy watching Peninsula folk take their time choosing which dessert theyd like, then serve it up! This year there will also be pie contest tables to staff, and more tables on the porch for people to sit so we expect to be very busy and need all positions filled! Dessert Makers, Coordinator Katerina Demeti 70 Dessert Makers Needed WE NEED A LOT OF DESSERTS FOR THE FAIR! Pies, cakes, cookies, brownies, simple or exotic, well all be grateful for your efforts! (Especially the pies: no pie contest this year!) Please deliver with a note firmly attached with your name and a description of the dessert so Fairgoers can identify what they're eating! Deliver to Katy's office whenever you arrive and be sure to label your dishes for easy retrieval. If you cant pick up your dish at the end of the Fair, they will be left for you in the hallway shelf by the stairs on Monday. Drinks, Coordinators Peter Sharer & Adele Cruz 18 Drinks Volunteers Needed Fairgoers can purchase softdrinks, juices, beer, wine, and water at our Drinks Booth. Volunteers will organize all the bottles and cans, arrange cups, napkins, and such, fill ice chests, and keep the drinks coming! Indian Booth, Coordinators - Vinita & Stuart Nelson 9 Food Servers Needed The Indian booth is a hit every year with Fairgoers. You'll help load plates, take tickets, keep the booth humming and serve this delicious food up! Kids Food, Coordinator - Flavia Herrod 7 Food Servers The Kid Food booth is a necessity at a Fair where much of our international cuisine is too rich and mysterious for our younger offspring. This is a fun booth to work if you love kids and the food is super-easy to work with. You'll help load plates, collect scrip, keep the booth humming and serve the food. Mexican Booth, Coordinators - Camerina & Esteban Aceves 9 Food Servers The wonderful Aceves family returns again with their delicious food. You'll help load plates, collect scrip, keep the booth humming and serve this delicious food. Ellen Wilkinson Spring Fair Manager (650) 938-9658