Calling all Makers!

We will need to start collecting items that we have around our homes to build our Makerspace supplies. Makerspace allows students to create, build, re-engineer and deconstruct, many of us have building materials in our homes whose use can be recycled. Please take a minute to look at the donation request list to see what items you might be able to provide.

Donation Request:

• **Plastic storage bins with or without lids for storage and easy access: tall or short, long or shoebox sized***
• Binder clips
• Building blocks and sets – Legos, K’nex, Tinker toys, Erector sets, magnet building sets, etc (used or new)
• Cable ties (all sizes)
• Cardboard – large flat sheets at Costco, boxes, rolls and tubes, card stock paper, Egg cartons, etc
• Clothes iron
• Construction Paper
• Empty coffee cans
• Empty & rinsed coffee pods
• Stack of paper cups or Styrofoam cups
• Drop cloths (canvas, reusable)
• Fabric, felt , foam sheets
• Globe drink lids (Frappuccino lids at Starbucks or Slurpee lids)
• Gloves – plastic, cloth, leather
• Glue – super glue, Elmers, wood, ***hot glue sticks***
• Hot glue guns
• How-To books (old or new, any age level)
• Left over paints (latex interior, acrylics, tempera, etc…safe for kids to paint cardboard)
• Markers
• Measuring tape (10ft or longer), T-square
• Old Door knobs (to disassemble)
• Old rubber erasers (does not need to be in good condition)
• Out of service smart phones (to be dissected)
• Paint brushes, sponges, flat applicators, etc for applying paint
• Plastic Flexible Tubing – large and small diameter, etc
• Play-Doh
• Popsicle sticks
• Scissors
• Sewing machine (working only please)
• Springs (any shape and size…adds physical resistance to projects)
• String – rope, thread, twine, yarn, etc
• Tape – **duct tape**, electrical, copper, scotch, masking, etc
• Tools: hammer, screwdrivers, nail punch, Japanese hand saw, wire stripper, needle nose pliers, etc
• Twist ties
• Used but working video camera (cell phone, hand-held, etc)
• Wire and wire stripper/cutters
• Clean wood pieces – dowels, skewers, toothpicks, flat boards, etc
• Wine corks
• Newspapers/magazines
• or anything else that you think a tinker lab could use!