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Ms. Eleni Gerasimou from Astoria, NY is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Art Fun!

Help me give my students Art supplies such as sketchbooks, crayons, water color paints and markers.

  • $3,687 goal

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Ms. Eleni Gerasimou has another project! Donate to Paint Markers Please! to help her classroom.

$231 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

My students are warm, loving, caring and always eager to learn and create amazing masterpieces. They have an immense imagination and love a good challenge. They are always thinking outside the box when sketching, painting and designing. It's blissful to watch. They enjoy each others' company and ideas, especially during group projects.

They are true artists at heart.

However, how can an artist be all they can be without the proper tools at home and in school especially during COVID19.

As a Title I school, we do not have an abundance of resources to purchase all the art materials needed to support our art classroom and so this is the main reason why I would love your help. I want to have a classroom environment that is welcoming, colorful and full of imagination for all of my young artists and of course individual art media for home as well. I would love to have an ample amount of art tools to support all artists.

"Every child is an artist... The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

Pablo Picasso.

I want to provide my Artists with a positive art experience they will remember forever.

My Project

Sketch books are essential in ART.

A sketchbook is an excellent place for holding ideas.

It's a place where children can gather their thoughts, paint, create, doodle and design. Keeping a sketchbook will help their ideas grow and develop new ones. A sketchbook will help my Artists make connections and foster their creativity. Sketching is a powerful process to use because it will help my Artists discover the best ideas and solutions to a design problem. Sketchbooks are also a great way to keep their work together and safe.

The beauty of a sketchbook is that it is a place for freely being creative. Children will feel free to draw anything they want.

The more the children fill the pages of their sketchbook and stretch their creativity muscles, the easier their ideas and imagination will flow. Sketchbooks are great because artists are not confined to just drawing sketches. They can paint, doodle, create collages, create a series, draw cartoon characters, design new characters in a book, even write their own book and illustrate it. Using a variety of mediums in a sketchbook will help grow their creativity and help my Artists find their own personal style of Art. Having crayons , markers and water colors will help bring life to my student's artwork.

Ms. Eleni Gerasimou PS 84 Steinway Grades PreK-2

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Half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

300 students impacted 18donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
00303-1029 - Grumbacher Watercolor Pans - Opaque Pan, Set of 24 colors • Blick Art Materials $27.06 50 $1,353.00
13663-2512 - Strathmore 400 Series Recycled Toned Sketch Journal - 12" x 9", 50 Sheets, Cool Gray • Blick Art Materials $6.20 150 $930.00
21252-0509 - Crayola Super Tips Washable Marker Set - Assorted Colors, Fine Line, Set of 50 • Blick Art Materials $8.70 50 $435.00
67847-1249 - Crayola Silly Scents Mini Twistables Crayons - Set of 24 • Blick Art Materials $6.80 50 $340.00

Materials cost

$3,058.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$45.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$3,133.87

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$553.04

Total project goal

$3,686.91

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $3,686.91

15 Donors

-$3,334.57

Donations toward project cost

-$2,848.63

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$485.94

match offer

-$335.58

Match offer toward project cost

-$285.24

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$50.34

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$16.76

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 $0.00

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