Vendors’ market provides lesson in commerce
Boerne Middle School North students learning valuable money skills and more got to enjoy a real-world exercise this weekend by marketing their handmade wares at a vendors’ showcase.
More than 50 sellers attended the Boerne Handmade Market at nineteen:ten church, 130 Sisterdale Road, including life-skills teachers Hannah Fairhurst and April Moreno.
Their booth, Handcrafted by Boerne Middle School North Life Skills, featured bath salts, baked dog treats and gift bags and tags made by students Asher Medina and Oliver Martinez.
“They spent a few months preparing for this,” Fairhurst said. “They rolled, measured, cut all of the dog treats.”
The goal of the life skills program is teaching students functional skills, money management and socialization.
The work the middle-schoolers perform can help bolster their resume building as they grow older and seek work.
The Saturday proceeds help raise funds for field trips, supplies for the booth and classroom, annual trips to Morgan’s Wonderland in San Antonio, the Fredericksburg Flower Farm, pumpkin patches and movies at the Santikos Palladium in The Rim, also in the Alamo City.
“We also take them on luncheons,” Fairhurst said. “They are able to purchase their own food with the money they make to teach them early on about money management.” The students, Moreno said, enjoy building their own careers early on in life.
“And we love making it with them,” Moreno said.
Fairhurst and Moreno plan to attend the next Boerne Handmade Market in the spring. Meanwhile, the success of this past weekend’s two-day event left Handmade on Main owner, Amy Bierstedt, feeling enthusiastic.
“The first day with the VIPs was incredible,” she said. “Today has been great, too.”
The event brings out local businesses with the requirement all products sold are handmade, according to event organizer Sarah Wilburn.
“We have everything here, from blown-glass decorations to local artwork,” Wilburn said. This year, the event partnered with the Kendall County Women’s Shelter, which offers resources for survivors and their pets.
“We want to support good causes,” Wilburn said. “We will be planning the spring event soon.”
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