If you are interested in donating items to the center, we are able to use just about anything you might need to clean out of your house.
For dramatic play:
- Old bags (like make up bags or purses)
- Gloves
- Shoes (adult or school-age sizes)
- Ties
- Scarves
- Old cell phones with no batteries
- Hats
- Wallets
- Uniforms
- Empty shampoo or conditioner bottles
- Jewelry
- Kitchen utensils
- Pots and Pans
- Vases
- Keys
Construction:
- Cereal boxes
- Large cardboard tubes
- Boxes (small and hard, like jewelry boxes)
- Coffee cans with lids
- Containers (yogurt, cottage cheese, etc.)
- Silk flowers
- Wood scraps (sanded edges)
- Small tools (real ones
- Tubing
- PVC pipe and joints
- Wall Paper
- Veneer
- Tile
Art:
- Beads
- Bits of tinsel
- Bric-a-brac
- Buttons, snaps, eyehooks
- Cardboard
- CDs
- Cellophane
- Corks
- Elastic
- Envelopes
- Fabric
- Fishing line
- Game pieces
- Gift wrap, used and leftovers
- Jute
- Lace
- Paper bags
- Plexi pieces
- Ribbon
- String
- Sequins
- Tassels
- Rick-rack
- Wire (thin, thick, very flexible; brass, silver, copper, colored, plastic:
- Aluminum screen
- Chicken wire
- Copper screen
- Plastic mesh
- Wire mesh
Science:
- Bark
- Clear boxes
- Corks
- Dried beans, grains, ice
- Dried flowers
- Flowers
- Decorative balls
- Pebbles & rocks
- Petri dishes
- Flower pots
- Raffia
- Scraps of wood
- Seeds & pods
- Shells
- Slides
- Soil for potting
- Twigs