Last spring the Youth collected enough school items and material for bags to make 50 school kits.  This year they want to start early.  When you are at the store like Fred Meyer or Staples think about getting an extra spiral of paper, pencils, rulers, etc. We will be collecting starting now through mid-April.  There are school sales happening now!  

The following items need to be in each school kit:

●    Notebook s of wide-or college-ruled paper approximately 8”x10 1/2” totaling 150-200 sheets (if using 70-sheet notebooks, please include three); no loose-leaf paper

●    One blunt scissors (safety scissors with embedded steel blades work well)

●    One 30-cm ruler, or a ruler with centimeters on one side and inches on the other

●    One pencil sharpener

●    Six new, unsharpened #2 pencils with erasers; secure together with a rubber band

●    One eraser approximately 21/2” long

●    12 sheets of construction paper in assorted colors (if necessary, fold in half to fit into the school kit bag)

●    One box of 16 or 24 crayons

●    One sturdy cloth bag approximately 12” x 14” with cloth handles or drawstring closure