Thursday, September 20, 2012

Wish List

It's not time to be sending Santa a wish list but I thought I would post an ARTS WISH LIST here for those wanting to contribute to our classes.
Art is posed with a unique challenge--restocking the supplies. What we buy, we use, and we need to restock our supplies to keep the lessons interesting, involved and contunue to expose the children to a variety of mediums. In a few short weeks we have used: HB art pencils, paper, brown paper bags, four rolls of double sided tape, butcher paper, markers, crayons, 4 packs colored pencils--completely used to little tiny nubs, chalk, charcoal, and sepia colored crayons, three rolls of paper towels, and two tubs of Clorox wipes. You can imagine how fast supplies could disappear with 375 students each week!

First, I want to thank all the families who sent in paper bags for our Paleolithic Cave Art lesson (blog coming soon) and want to thank Allie Araya for donating boxes of quality art paper in various sizes for upcoming projects. Thank you!

If you can donate any of the items, small or large quantities, it would be greatly appreciated by our little artists and myself. They LOVE having the opportunity to explore with new art tools.
Wish LIst
CLEANING ITEMs
·        Clorox wipes
·        Paper towels
·        Kleenex
·        Large Bottle of Pump Hand Sanitizer
·        Liquid Soap
·       Rags
ART SUPPLIES
Typically, I set up in 4 or 8 table stations. Any supplies in those combinations work really well for organization and lesson planning. For example, each table (6 students) would get a packet of crayons to share or each group (3 students) would get a packet to share.
·        Colored pencils
·        Markers
·        Charcoal
·        Paper plates
·       
Art pencils
·       
Quality erasers
·        Oil pastels
·        Water colors
·        Brushes
·        Palettes – tin pans
·        Tin foil
·        Syran-a-wrap 
·        Wax paper

·        Glue sticks and Elmers school glue
·        Bendable wire
·        Colored tissue papers
·        Craft Supplies

Yarn                
Glass jars                 Buttons    
Stickers           
Blank cards               Rubber Stamps 
Ink Pads
Fabrics                                                                                     Egg cartons                                                                 Scrapbooking paper
glitter  
Anything you would like to donate J
Nevada Fine Arts
More BANG for our BUCK$$$$
Nevada Fine Arts offers gift cards. If I use them to purchase our supplies, they will provide us with a 25% savings!!!!
Our local art shop is helping to support us and I would like to do the same for them.

If your child needs art supplies for home or fun educational games and experiments, Nevada Fine Arts carries more than art supplies. All students get a 10% discount! Bring your ID.

The store is located between Arroyo and Pueblo Street at:
1301 S. Virginia St.
Reno, NV 89502
Phone: 775-786-1128
Fax: 775-786-1292

3 comments:

  1. What a great idea to post a wish list! We've got piles of fabric, lots of yarn scraps, and more. I can bring in a pack of baby wipes too if you want, they sure come is handy!

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    1. Thank you, Apryl. Any items would be greatly appreciated. The supplies are what inspires me to create the lessons. The kids saw some fabric samples in class and really want to create something with it! Thank you for helping us out. I am there from 8-12 each day if you'd like to stop in anytime.

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  2. YIKES! Please excuse the odd formatting throughout the post. I was trying something new out and it didn't work so well :(

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