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DONATE MATERIALS

Donation Pause through July 22nd

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We have soooo many great items being organized for our 2025 Tools for Schools event. July 16 -19th we will provide a bunch of items to Title I school educators and brand new teachers for free!! This is possible thanks to all the material and financial donations made to support our community and the schools. Volunteers are still needed to organize ahead of time and help out during the four days of the event.

 

 

Teachers, students, artists, and creative types know how to take used and forgotten items and put them to good use! Check out our list of materials we accept that are clean, safe, and still usable. We may look through the items and let you know if there is anything we are not able to accept. Items can be loose or mismatched! Partial packages and partially used items are all a part of what we are working to save from the landfill and get out into the community to be used. 

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During shop hours we can accept one bag or box at a time so we can keep up with donations. If you have more, please call ahead or make an appointment. 

 

Top of our need list items are highlighted in green below. 

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Reach us at 847.250.7185 or info@greener-good.org

Crafts Supplies

ART SUPPLIES

  • Blenders and erasers

  • Calligraphy

  • Canvases (blank)

  • Chalk

  • Clay and related tools

  • Drawing and art utensils

  • Drawing compass

  • Easels

  • Linocut materials

  • Mosaic materials (glass, ceramic)

  • Paint, paintbrushes, related tools

  • Pastels

  • Sketchbooks and paper

  • Stretch canvas (higher quality is in demand)

  • Watercolors and paper

Image by Jas Min

BITS & BOBS

  • Bread tags

  • Colorful, random objects

  • Dice

  • Film canisters (35mm)

  • Game pieces

  • Keys

  • Magnets

  • Old tennis balls for good lil' doggies

  • Paper grocery bags

  • Pinback buttons

  • Printer cartridges (empty)

  • Spools

School Supply

CLASSROOM and OFFICE SUPPLIES

  • Adult coloring books

  • Binder rings and binder clips

  • Big books (preK, tall books)

  • Books (4-8 grade level)

  • Book Bins

  • ​Calculators (from the last 10 years in working condition)

  • Cardstock

  • Classroom items teachers and students use

  • Colored pencils

  • Glue (school, craft, sticks, super)

  • Erasers

  • Fidgets

  • Handheld 1-hole punch

  • Legos

  • Highlighters

  • Markers (including "Sharpies" and dry erase)

  • Math games

  • Notebooks (spiral, bound, graph, lined, unlined)

  • Padded mailers (in reusable condition)

  • Page protectors

  • Paper clips

  • Pencils

  • Petri dishes

  • Play animals (small)

  • Pocket folders

  • Pony beads

  • Preschool learning items

  • Puzzles (50-1000 pieces)

  • Reinforcement circles

  • Rewards

  • Rulers and protractors

  • Science kits

  • Spanish teaching materials, especially kids books

  • Staples, staplers, staple removers

  • Tape ("Scotch", packing, washi, fun duct tape patterns)

  • Tape dispensers with heavy bottom

  • Wood puzzleboards

  • Writing utensils (pens, pencils)

Crafts Supplies

CRAFT SUPPLIES

  • Beads

  • Beeswax

  • Charms

  • Collage ephemera and materials

  • Clay (air dry, oven bake, polymer)

  • Dot markers

  • Fabric (1/4 yard or larger)

  • Felt sheets with and without sticky backing

  • Felting materials and tools

  • Glue (hot glue sticks, mod podge, tacky glue, e6000)

  • Googly eyes

  • Leather and vinyl scraps (5"x9" or larger)

  • Mason jars

  • Pipe cleaners

  • Playdough

  • Pom poms

  • Pony beads

  • Popsicle sticks (unused)

  • Tempera crayons

  • Velcro

  • Wire

  • Craft supplies not on our Pause list (below)

Image by Darling Arias

FABRIC, NEEDLE ARTS, SEWING

  • Blocking boards

  • Buttons

  • Crochet hooks

  • Cutting mats

  • Embroidery hoops, thread, kits

  • Embroidery fabric

  • Fabric - quilting, cotton, (clean, 4"x6" or larger) 

  • Leather and vinyl scraps (clean, 4"x6" or larger)

  • Macrame cord

  • Sewing needles of all sizes

  • Stitch counters and savers

  • String

  • Thread

  • Yarn

  • Zippers

Image by Marc Newberry

SCRAPBOOKING & COLLAGE

  • Bone folder

  • Cricut machines (working) and related materials

  • Dye cut stamps and machines

  • Embellishments (pause on accepting)

  • Maps

  • Postcards

  • Punches

  • Scrapbook paper (pause on accepting)

Image by Tuyen Vo

TOOLS

  • Cutting mats

  • Measuring tape

  • Leather punch

  • Paper cutter

  • Portfolio books

  • Sewing machines (beginner types in working condition)

  • Tile cutting tools (mosaic)

Image by Tuyen Vo

PAUSE ON ACCEPTING
There are certain items we can't accept as we already have a lot

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  • Binders

  • Bulletin borders

  • Calendars (whole or pictures only)

  • Corks

  • Craft foam

  • Crayons​

  • Greeting cards (unused or fronts only)

  • Knitting needles

  • Looms

  • Marbles

  • Mechanical pencils

  • Paper (we do need cardstock)

  • Perler beads, patterns, trays

  • Permanent markers

  • Popsicle sticks

  • Recyclables (paper tubes, containers, egg cartons)

  • Ribbon

  • Rulers

  • Sandpaper

  • Scrapbooking embellishments

  • Stamps (cardmaking-type)

  • Vase gems

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