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!