Day Care Trash-to-Treasure Redux

Recently I posted about bringing things to day care for the kids to use for craft projects (see My Trash = Day Care’s Treasure). Seeing the list of stuff I’ve brought in made me realize that it had been a long time since I reviewed day care’s full list of potential trash-to-treasure items. So I asked them for a copy.

Whoa. Willy is really going to strangle me now that I have this comprehensive list of crap to save for the kids.

Thought I’d share it with everyone. You never know when you might come across something that the kids can use. Happy donating!

• Belts
• Berry baskets
• Milk jugs, sanitized
• Bread bag closures
• Buttons
• Cardboard
• Decks of cards
• Eyedroppers, plastic
• Fabric and felt scraps
• File folders, used
• Film canisters, sanitized
• Food containers/boxes, empty
• Formica samples
• Frozen juice lids, sanitized
• Gardening supplies
• Greeting cards, postcards
• Grocery bags, paper
• Jewelry
• Lace
• Magazines
• Maps
• Measuring Tapes
• Notebooks & notepads
• Nuts, bolts, washers
• Paint sample cards
• Paint stir sticks
• Paint shirts
• Paper of all kinds
• Party supply leffovers (incl. invitations)
• Plastic foods
• Plasticjarswithlids
• Purses, wallets
• Ribbons
• Scarves
• Science collections (rocks, shells, seeds)
• Scoops & spoons
• Shoeboxes
• Shoelaces for lacing
• Sticky notes
• Styrofoam blocks, trays (unused)
• Thread spools
• Toothbrushes for painting
• Wallpaper samples
• Wood scraps
• Work-related hats
• Yarn or string
• Yogurt containers (sanitized)