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Mrs. Melissa Smith from Spooner, WI is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Team Third Grade Tie Dyes

Help me give my students RAILS t-shirts to tie dye and build community.

  • $665 goal

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Mrs. Melissa Smith has another project! Donate to Create and Design to Finish the Year to help her classroom.

$1,160 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

My students are amazing! They surprise me each and every day and keep me learning more for them. We seriously have some of the best students in our small-town elementary school.

My students are always ready to try something new and because of that, I want to be a better teacher everyday.

I want to grow with them!

Our school is over sixty percent free or reduced-price lunch recipients, but together our community, parents and staff work to get us everything we need. I am so grateful to have wonderful people like you also partnering with us to help get our students everything they so deserve.

My Project

This year we would like to provide each student with a t-shirt with our school name printed on it to tie dye. We'd like to tie dye these t-shirts a unique color for each class to be apart of our classroom community. We'd like our students to be able to wear them all year long. During this activity students learn about inferences by thinking about how their design is going to turn out. They also use a lot hand-eye coordination as they plan out their rubber bands and twists. They get to be creative and incorporate different designs too. Science is also incorporated by learning how the colors are soaked up into the t-shirt.

The smiles these t-shirts will put on our students' faces will be amazing.

These t-shirts show a sense of pride in our school and this in turn motivates our students to come to school each day and give it their best. These t-shirts will also be used as "uniforms" for our Econ fair at the end of the day. During this time, students learn all about running their own business.

This project is so much more than t-shirt and dye, it is motivating learning, motivating creativity, and motivating joy.

Mrs. Melissa Smith Spooner Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Spooner, WI View local requests

More than 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

19 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
White t-shirts with Rails print • Anthony Walter Designs $5.50 90 $495.00
Rit Dye Liquid Fabric Dye, 8-Ounce, Violet • Amazon Business $6.99 2 $13.98
Rit Dye Liquid Fabric Dye, 8-Ounce, Navy Blue • Amazon Business $2.98 2 $5.96
Rit Dye Liquid Fabric Dye, 8-Ounce, Purple • Amazon Business $2.98 2 $5.96
Rit Dye Liquid Fabric Dye, 8-Ounce, Emerald Green • Amazon Business $2.98 2 $5.96

Materials cost

$526.86

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.90

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$564.76

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$99.66

Total project goal

$664.42

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $664.42

2 Donors

-$330.00

Donations toward project cost

-$284.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$45.75

match offer

-$330.01

Match offer toward project cost

-$280.51

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$49.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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