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