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Get YOUR name on
the Ten Buck Truck
Organizations, schools,
individuals and businesses
You
helped make us a winner! We received a $1,000 prize
from America's Giving
Challenge--we were # 20 nationwide!
We have raised $6,549 to date
to kick off the fund for our new walk-in
cargo van. It will pick up 28 tons of materials and bring
learning and creative
activities to schools, organizations, events and homes. We
can expand our
services throughout the state.
A $10 or larger donation
gets YOUR name on the truck!
Send a check to Arts & Scraps, 16135 Harper, Detroit, MI
48224 or
click to donate on our secure site
or click on the "product"
category to the left.
Your name
will not be shared.
Collect
School Supplies at the End of the School Year
crayons
sharpened pencils sharpened colored
pencils scissors
Are your students lucky enough to buy new
supplies next year? Some aren't.
Please share your used supplies with others. Deliver your
boxes to Arts &
Scraps. Please presort your donations if at all possible.
Call Sue at 313-640-4411 x 6 with questions.
For a printable label for collection boxes,
click here.
New Classes for
Early Childhood Providers,
Parents and Preschool Teachers
Hands-on, themed classes at your
location present practical ideas and a mind
set for life! Up to 30 participants visit 6 hands-on stations
using materials
commonly owned and "good stuff" from Arts & Scraps, then visit
the
ScrapMobile to shop for materials they just used. No projects
are duplicated
in any of the 4 classes. Call Suzan at 313-640-4411 x 3 or
email her.
Hands on Math
Discovery Learning/Science
Fun with Books
Creativity Day after Day?
View sample pages.
“All About Me!”
My Thoughts, My Moods, My Dreams
This a 28 page activity journal by Cari Stoller,
MEd Art Therapist. The sketching, doodling, writing
and coloring pages are fun and meaningful for
preschoolers through adults. It is effective when you
want to know someone better or reflect upon your
own thoughts and feelings and is a great discussion
starter. There are also some fun pages.
Parents have subtitled it "What Are They Thinking?"
This unique booklet been used effectively by
mentoring groups, senior centers, churches and in
schools as
a literacy activity.
Cost at Arts & Scraps, $3.00; 50 or more
booklets for $2.00
Purchase now on our secure site, includes postage.
Want to volunteer?
Events around the city and at Arts & Scraps are on this page.
(scroll down after clicking).
What's new at the Resource Center
(our "store")?
We're open to the public Tues.,
Thurs. 11-6, Sat. 11-4.
Come stuff a bag, choosing from over 300 items!
blue acrylic paint, 4 oz. bottles--LOTS OF THEM
wipe off boards and cork bulletin boards, 2' x 3' to 9'
x 6'
boxed envelopes of many sizes, printed (cover with a label and go)
carpet pieces in time for spring mud--many sizes
24" x 24" plywood sheets with tile samples--add legs and you have
a table: $1.00
RED BUCKETS are 6"x 8" with no logos. We have quantities!
Price: 3/$1.00
ROLLS of 48" satin fabric with plastic backing, $1.00/yard.
Great tablecloths
or can be ironed in place (the plastic is actually
heat adhesive)
Scrap
Packs--complete project kits for 25
Click to view over 40 different kits--we ship anywhere in the
US. If you have
questions, please
contact us.
Thanks,
Humana for the ScrapMobile
Add the ScrapMobile
to programs at your site for shopping and visibility.
Corporate sponsorship at events is an option--we'll put your name
in electronic
lights, hand out your info and incorporate your logo in projects.
Invite the
ScrapMobile
to your site for these projects:
Life Cycles
(life science) Friends
of the Earth (recycling)
Mosaics
(multi cultural, math, science) Robots
(physical science)
Percussion Instrument (multi-cultural) Insects
(life science)
Space & Aliens (habitat,
adaptation)
Inventions and Simple Machines
(physical science)
Masks and Puppets Around the World
(multi-cultural)
Create in your building, then visit the ScrapMobile to fill a bag
with recycled
materials to take home. Visits are about 1 hour, ages 3 through
adult.
Birthday parties at your home
2 projects
following your theme in your home on our tables, shop on the
ScrapMobile for a "goodie bag". See your child's name in lights.
Details are
on our
program detail sheet.
Sell
on eBay? We're a registered non-profit.
When you donate
a portion of your sales to Arts & Scraps, eBay will reduce
your fee and donate to us, also.
Wish List
Questions?
Contact us
We are a 501(C)(3) non-profit
organization.
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tape to seal
boxes
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quantities of
new plastic or paper bags, any size--
logos OK
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quantities of any size
cardboard box, logos OK
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cross cut paper shredder
to make confetti
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cleaning supplies, brooms
any size; can be used
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working box stapler
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carts, dollies for our
warehouse
16135 Harper Detroit, MI
48224 313-640-4411 fax 313-640-4422
email:
contact@ARTSandSCRAPS.org
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