LIVERMORE FALLS – What once was the loan department of the Androscoggin Bank at the Bank Building on Main Street is being transformed into Santa’s Workshop.

Stockings are hung. A nativity scene is set up in one room as well as the start of a Christmas village. Decorations adorn different rooms. Gift items are lined up to be bought. And Christmas trees are erected in different places.

Their chairs await the arrival of Santa and Mrs. Claus.

The first Santa’s Workshop will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday on the first floor of the building.

Parents are invited to bring their children to have a chance to buy gifts for family members at a price of 25 cents each, an organizer, Jackie Knight of Livermore Falls, said Tuesday.

There will also be a gift-wrap room, a bake-sale room, a craft room and more.

Jay and Livermore elementary schoolchildren have drawn pictures to be hung on what once was the art gallery at the bank.

Bank operations are now done in a smaller space at the Livermore Falls branch.

Knight and other organizers, Barbara Cook, Carmen Cullen and Rachel LaBrecque have been working to set up the shop. They plan to use proceeds to buy coats for children in Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls.

They’re still in need of old jewelry, knickknacks, books and other items for men and women that people may not want any more, Knight said. They also welcome baked goods to be sold.

Donations of items may be dropped off at Cumberland Farms on Main Street and will be sent to the workshop daily, she said.

While that group of volunteers organizes the coats-for-kids-type drive, the Livermore Falls Downtown Betterment Group, which Knight is president of, is organizing the parade that will begin at 5 p.m. at Memco in Jay and continue down Main Street to Livermore Falls, where Santa will step down from a firetruck into the workshop to meet with children and their families. There will be cookies and hot cocoa offered there, Knight said.