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Holiday Happiness--Help My Special Ed Students Create Gifts for Hospitalized Children

The cost of materials to create holiday gifts for children at Brooklyn Hospital--including tape, fabric dyes, glue, canvas bags, and craft sticks--is $103, including shipping and <a target="new" href="http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm" onclick="g_openWindow('http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm', 300, 800, 'fulfillwindow');return false;">fulfillment</a>.

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I am a special-education teacher at Ronald Edmond Learning Center, a Middle School in Brooklyn. Our school is a Title 1 School, and approximately 85 percent of our students recieve free or reduced-price lunch. The eleven students I teach are classified as "mentally retarded." Despite the challenges they have in their lives, they can succumb like anyone else to the "buy me," "give me" attitudes for ready-made products and instant gratification. I hope to change these attitudes by offering a project that has them work on creating something for somebody else who may not be so fortunate--like children who are hospitalized at holiday time. Holiday time is November/December when Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa are celebrated. "Holiday Happiness" has been a yearly project for my students in which they make and personally give various gifts to children who are on the pedicatric ward of Brooklyn Hospital during the month of December. The handmade gifts consist of tie-dyed t-shirts (West African style of sewing and folding the shirts), knick-knack boxes (made of craft sticks), painted suncatchers, and color stenciled/painted tote bags. My students learn processes and step-by-step methods, visual and auditory focusing, sewing and folding skills, and how to follow directions. And then there's the intrinsic stuff that happens during the project! The satisfaction of being able to create, share, assist others (in the class), complete a task, and feel proud can only be measured by the students' happy faces and anxiousness to deliver the gifts (after they are gift-wrapped, of course). The materials we need are four packets each of blue, purple, yellow and green fabric dye, a box of salt, 200 craft sticks, a quart of glue, four suncatcher kits (twenty-four pictures), six natural-color small tote bags, and five different colors of fabric paint. I ask students to bring in two white cotton t-shirts--one to give away as a present and the other to keep as a sample of their new skill and work. I want the students to not only give away but use something that they have made. This project leads to a sense of accomplishment, a sense of pride, a gaining of cooperative skills, and a helpfulness leading to someone else's happiness.

Ms. Gittens Middle School 113 Ronald Edmonds Learning Center Grades 6-8

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At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than three‑quarters 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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sun Catcher Kits (Fun Day Sun Catchers Kit) • Dick Blick $14.53 1 $14.53
Waffle Paper (Blue, 36", 8 ft) • Dick Blick $4.33 1 $4.33
Waffle Paper (Green, 36", 8 ft) • Dick Blick $4.33 1 $4.33
Dylon Cold Water Fabric Dyes (A19, Purple Vine) • Dick Blick $1.61 4 $6.44
SCOTCH TRANSPARENT TAPE, 3/4X1296, 1 CORE -- Scotch Transparent Tape; 3/4Wx1296"L, 1" Core • Quill Corporation $1.61 3 $4.83
Dylon Cold Water Fabric Dyes (A22, Sahara Sun) • Dick Blick $1.61 4 $6.44
Dylon Cold Water Fabric Dyes (A30, Turquoise Saga) • Dick Blick $1.61 4 $6.44
Dylon Cold Water Fabric Dyes (A5, Dawn Pink) • Dick Blick $1.61 4 $6.44
CRAFT STICKS 150 PCS 4 1/2 X 3/8 X 2MM -- Chenille Kraft Craft Sticks; Assorted Colors, 150/Pack • Quill Corporation $1.25 1 $1.25
BagWorks Canvas Bags (Canvas Tote) • Dick Blick $1.10 6 $6.60
Elmer's Glue-All (Glue-All, 1-1/4 oz) • Dick Blick $0.40 10 $4.00

Materials cost

$65.63

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

3rd party payment processing fee

Fulfillment labor & materials

Total project cost

$84.05

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$18.45

Total project goal

$102.50

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $102.50

1 Donor

-$97.00

Donations toward project cost

-$85.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$6.66

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 $0.00

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