School Supplies
Every August, over 300 children receive approximately $350 worth of new school supplies, helping area students begin the year right. Although the focus for collect supplies is in July and August, we accept donations year-round.
Below is a list of our most needed items:Our sub-website for Stock Their Lockers can provide you with more information
should you need school supplies or express the desire to donate school supplies.
Stock Their Lockers Items
- New underwear (women and girl sizes)
- New socks (no show: men, boys, girls, women sizes)
- New underwear (boxers: men and boys and characters for the small boys)
- Colored pencils
- Expo Dry erase markers
- 24 count crayons
- Cap eraser, big pink pearl eraser
- Covered pencil sharpener
- Fat pencils with sharpener (for kindergarten)
- Jumbo crayons
- Mechanical pencils with lead
- No.2 pencils
- Sharpie markers
- Washable markers
- Yellow highlighters
- Scissors (safety and pointed)
- 3 and 5-subject notebooks (spiral composition books)
- Binders (3-ring, two pocket binders, half inch, 1”-1.5″, and 2 inch”, assorted colors or characters)
- Construction paper
- Graph paper
- Index cards (ruled and non-ruled) 3×5 and 4×6
- Indexed tab dividers (5 count or 8 count)
- Kindergarten paper writing pads
- Loose leaf/ filler paper (wide rule/college rule)
- Plastic pocket folders with prongs (primary colors: red, blue, green, orange, yellow, purple)
- Post-it notes individually wrapped
- Primary writing journals and tablets
- Band-Aids
- Hand sanitizer (full size)
- Lysol or Clorox wipes
- Paper towels (wrapped in individual packs)
- Ziploc baggies, (snack, sandwich, gallon and quart size)
- Backpacks (all sizes kindergarten through high school)
- Lunch bags/boxes (characters are ok)
- Zippered pencil pouches (the kind you can put in a binder)
- Flash drives, at least 1 GB
- Pocket dictionary/thesaurus
- Plastic pencil boxes