Toys for Tots Santa

I have a variety of customized Santa & Father Christmas outfits and have appeared in everything from casual and business wear, to multiple festive holiday-themed outfits during Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day, Easter & more. My Santa bag can be filled with gifts or a variety of Christmas hats and headbands to be utilized for individual and group photos to help create a much more memorable event impact. I also have an extensive library of Christmas books and stories for conducting Storytime with Santa events during the Christmas & Christmas-in-July holiday seasons. I relish interacting as Santa with young and old alike and always look forward to being peppered with questions about the North Pole, our sleigh reindeer, elves, toy production, Christmas deliveries, and explanations about how to stay on Santa's Nice List. In fact, I provide a business card that lists Santa's Top 3 things children need to do every single day to stay on my Nice List. I'm always happy to share my 22 years of knowledge and experience with event planners, coordinators, sponsors, and hosts. NOTE - I can even provide your event with a choice of props, photo backdrops, and Santa throne settee...all free of charge!!! FYI - Due to my professionalism & popularity, I book multiple years in advance...booking me at least a year in advance is HIGHLY recommended!!!

To all whom it may concern…
I’ve been asked to write a short synopsis of my Toys for Tots experience, emphasizing my recent activities in Jackson County, Mississippi, which is located on the USA Gulf Coast.
It must first be noted that I’m a fourth-generation Santa and, as do most people, I have a humble beginning, with mine starting out by being born, not at the North Pole, but on a small dairy farm in a tiny village in Upstate New York.
My early winters were spent, not playing games amongst reindeer, but leaping into piles of leaves and hay, constructing snowmen, ice-fishing, and riding horses. However, being the newest elf in our large, extended elf family, just as Rudolph experienced, I was subjected to a bit of bullying as some of my mother's siblings would dress me in a snowsuit, craft two large piles of snowballs, place me between their teams on the back of a reindeer, and then proceed to compete against each other as to which would be responsible to knock me off its back. Once my mother learned of their scheming ways, that activity was substituted for others posing less of a physical hazard…to me anyway…not that I truly cared a whit, as all of our family home movies have recorded me giggling and laughing throughout every one.
Let’s skip forward, past my 8 years serving in the US Military, to my first Santa experience...
Although I attended many appearances as a young elf, during none of them had I been responsible for doing anything more than smiling and helping to keep people in line. Then came the moment in time which I consider to be the pinnacle of my maturation process.
The location was a Head Start center in an impoverished area of Fort Worth, Texas. My father was slated to appear there as Santa the week before Christmas, but a bout of stomach flu sidelined him. My grandfather was making an appearance on the East Coast and my great-grandfather was likewise indisposed. Although VERY slight in size…it would be many, many years before I would grow large enough in stature to fill my current suit…my father outfitted me with a fake beard and wig, enlarged my girth with pillows, clothed me in his favorite Santa suit, gave me a confident smile and a knowing wink, then soothed my quaking nerves by stating, “Performing as Santa for others is in your blood. You’ve lived the experience during every waking moment of your life…simply be yourself and everything will be fine.” And it was!!!
I relived that singular experience for dozens of years afterward and I continue to recall it fondly to this very day. However, my self-confidence, although substantial, never seemed complete…until the holiday season of 2001.
It was then that I was introduced to a retired Marine who had just begun searching for someone who could perform as Santa on behalf of the metro-Atlanta Toys for Tots organizations. One conversation led to another…and another…which concluded in me being anointed as the official Toys for Tots Santa for metro-Atlanta for 2001…and beyond.
During the years since, I’ve appeared as a Toys for Tots Santa on the Eastern USA coast in the states of Georgia and Florida, the Western USA coast in the states of California and Oregon, and, most recently, in the USA Gulf Coast states of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi & Texas...2023 marks my 22nd year performing as Santa on behalf of Toys for Tots.
Over that span of time, I’ve performed all of my appearances at no charge, emphasizing to everyone that, in lieu of payment to myself, I prefer they make donations of toys and stuffed animals to the Marine Corps Reserve's Toys for Tots organization to help benefit all those in need.
In closing, I’m proud to have served as an official Santa on behalf of the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots organization for 22 years and I look forward to serving for many more.

Please keep in mind that my Santa appearances should be Toys for Tots related in some way, shape, or form, and can be conducted during ANY month of the year!!! I've appeared at Toys for Tots Charity golf events and other TFT fundraising events during literally EVERY month of the year!!! Including a Toys for Tots toy donation drive during YOUR event is the simplest way to accomplish that task and I'll happily inform everyone of how to implement a TFT toy drive and will even provide TFT toy donation boxes, TFT promotional items, TFT logos & more!!!
1) I prefer interactive events but I've appeared many times on camera for TV shows and other media promotions.
2) It must be noted that I operate the majority of my communications by email via my laptop or by flip phone (NOT a smartphone) and that I prefer phone conversations over texting.
3) Having performed as a professional fashion photographer for over 24 years, I can also help with setting lighting and staging a set.
4) For the vast majority of my events I provide a free photographer and post the best of their edited images on my Toys for Tots Santa Facebook page for free copying & sharing...business cards are provided for photographed attendees which include that website address.
5) During events it's preferred that a handout for children be provided by the event hosts...such as, candy canes, cookies, promotional gift items, etc...
6) Including me in your event can be customized in any number of ways...do you have an idea??? Then please pitch it to me!!!