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Ms. K from El Cajon, CA is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Our Creative Essentials for Crafts, Classwork, and More

Help me give my students supplies for completing their work, art and fine motor projects, including craft supplies, writing utensils, and laminating materials for repeated use activities.

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My Project

As a first-year teacher for disabled students with extensive support needs, I'm working on stocking the classroom with essentials such as play doh, laminating pouches, and markers for my 9 wonderful students. Being a diverse population with a wide range of goals, class work may look different for each student, so to help them build essential skills we do a lot of crafts, art, and writing (or pre-writing skills)--and we have fun doing it!

In my room, everyone's daily work includes practice, practice, and more practice, meaning we use a lot of supplies to develop their fine motor skills such as painting, using scissors, tracing, and grasping items, as well as academic and pre-academic skills like writing numbers and letters, writing their names, etc.

Since many of my students are still working on writing independently and others have more functional life-skill-related goals, we use these supplies to give them alternate methods to show what they know. This may look like an arts and crafts project, tracing lines, their names, or other print, completing cut and paste worksheets, or many other things (we get creative in our room) Not to mention, their families love getting to take home their child's original work.

With the repeated practice my students need with these skills, we use a lot of supplies over the year (including supplies to clean up the mess!). It would be a great help to everyone in our classroom if you could fund these essentials to help every student develop their functional and academic skills and make some awesome crafts along the way.

Ms. K W.D. Hall Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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El Cajon, CA View local requests

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

9 students impacted 11donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Turn in Trays Classroom, 4Pcs Paper Trays for Classroom, Book Baskets for Library, Drawers, Office, Home • Amazon Business $27.99 1 $27.99
Play-Doh Bulk Pack of 48 Cans, 6 Sets of 8 Modeling Compound Colors, Party Favors, Arts & Crafts, 3oz, Preschool Toys 2+ (Amazon Exclusive) • Amazon Business $26.02 1 $26.02
Scotch Thermal Laminating Pouches Letter Size 5 Mil 100/Pack (TP5854-100) • Staples $25.73 1 $25.73
Expo Dry Erase Markers Fine Tip Black 36/Pack (1921062) • Staples $22.80 1 $22.80
Lakeshore Economy Paintbrush Assortment - Set of 24 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
Crayola Jumbo Crayons - Set of 16 • Blick Art Materials $6.59 3 $19.77
Do A Dot Art! Markers 6-Pack Rainbow Washable Paint Markers, The Original Dot Marker, Activity Craft Coloring Supplies for Kids and Toddlers • Amazon Business $17.98 1 $17.98
Amazon Elements Baby Wipes, Unscented, Hypoallergenic, 810 Count, Flip-Top Packs, Pack of 9 • Amazon Business $17.73 1 $17.73
Crayola Construction Paper - 480ct (2pck), Bulk School Supplies For Kids, Classroom Supplies, Art Paper for Arts & Crafts • Amazon Business $13.81 1 $13.81
Clorox Disinfecting Wipes Value Pack 75 Wipes/Container 3/Pack (30208) • Staples $12.90 1 $12.90
Crayola Colors of the World Colored Pencils - Set of 24 • Blick Art Materials $5.02 2 $10.04
Elmer's School Glue Sticks, 0.24 oz., Purple, 30/Pack (2159542) • Quill.com $9.89 1 $9.89
Crayola Colored Pencils Assorted Colors 12/Box (68-4012) • Staples $1.77 5 $8.85
Crayola Kid's Markers Broad Line Assorted Colors 10/Pack (58-7722) • Staples $2.14 4 $8.56
DSTELIN Binder Clips Paper Clamps Assorted Sizes 100 Count (Black), X Large, Large, Medium, Small, X Small and Micro, 6 Sizes in One Pack, Meet Your Different Using Needs. • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Q-Tips Cotton Swabs, 300/Pack (17900) • Quill.com $6.74 1 $6.74
Dry Erase Eraser, CUTEFA 16 Pack Magnetic Whiteboard Dry Erasers, Mini Whiteboard Eraser, Dry Erase Board Erasers, White Board Erasers for Kids Classroom (2 x 2 x 0.79 Inch) (16Pcs-Space) • Amazon Business $6.64 1 $6.64

Materials cost

$262.43

Vendor shipping charges

 $10.95

Sales tax

 $24.01

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.94

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$331.33

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$58.47

Total project goal

$389.80

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $389.80

1 Donor

-$380.98

Donations toward project cost

-$331.33

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$49.65

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

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