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Sweet Treats
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Collect candy and put in
small plastic bags as party favors for the kids or homeless men for the
holidays . . . Valentines Day, Easter,
Thanksgiving, and Christmas. A fun and creative tag can be attached to the
bag with a greeting or verse.
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PB&J Day
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Collect peanut butter and
jelly for the food pantry. (You can serve PB&J sandwiches for lunch that
day!)
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T.P. the Mission!
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Collect toilet paper
which is given away to our families and used for the operations of the
mission.
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Casual Day
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Allow students or
employees to dress casually for one day and bring new or gently worn jeans,
T-shirts, tennis shoes and other casual clothes for the Community Closet.
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Winter Warm Up
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Collect new or gently
worn coats, scarves, gloves, hats and boots for the Community Closet.
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“Toilet-Tree” Collection
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Display an artificial
tree in a new toilet in the
entrance of the school, church or business. Hang tags on the tree with lists
of needed toiletry items (see attached list). Students/employees can take a
list off the tree and return any of the items in a bag placed under the tree.
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Personal CARE Week or
Health Week
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This is great for school
groups to do in conjunction with health classes. Care for a person with
personal care items! Take a week to
collect personal care needs by focusing on one item each day:
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Monday – soap
(bar or liquids)
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Tuesday –
shampoo, combs & brushes
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Wednesday –
toothpaste and toothbrush
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Thursday –
deodorant
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Friday –
lotion, chap stick, skin or foot powder
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Healthy Food Collection
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This is great for schools
to do when studying the food pyramid. Have students bring food items from
each of the 6 food groups:
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Cereal, rice,
pasta, muffin mixes, crackers
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Canned
veggies
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Canned fruit
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Powdered
milk, mac & cheese, Velveeta or cheese in a jar
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Canned
chicken and tuna, canned meals such as stew and chili, canned beans
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Cookies, cake
mixes, snacks such as Goldfish and Teddy Grahams, individually wrapped chips
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Boxing Day
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Boxing Day is a holiday in the United
Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia
and many other places around the world. It is based on the tradition of
giving gifts to the less fortunate members of society and is right after
Christmas. Your school can learn about boxing day and collect boxed food
items for the food pantry (see attached list).
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Class or Business
Division Competitions
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School classes or business divisions can compete
to collect the most of a particular item such as:
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Cereal (build the tallest
mountain of cereal boxes)
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Canned goods (build the
tallest tower of canned goods)
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Peanut butter (the most
pounds of peanut butter)
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Bags of candy (the most calories
. . . great for Easter, Christmas or Valentine’s Day giveaway)
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A Y for
the Homeless or
A Y for
the Hungry
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Great Valentine’s Day ideas:
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Make Valentine cards and
treat bags for our homeless shelter guests.
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Collect toiletries for the
homeless shelter.
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Collect food for the food
pantry.
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Show you CARE week!
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Focus on people in need for a week. Showing our DVD would help communicate the
basic needs of the poor and homeless:
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Food – see needed food list
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Clothing – new or gently worn
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Shelter – toiletries to stock
our homeless shelter
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Christmas in July
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Collect toys for the children at Sunshine. Any
toys are great!
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Fun in the Sun!
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Collect items needed for our Kids Club Summer
Camp (see attached list).
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Paper Palooza!
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Collect needed paper items (see attached list).
Teachers can let students bring a paper product instead of writing a paper as
homework for a particular class.
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Scavenger Hunt
Competition
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Divide into teams and distribute a creative
list of scavenger hunt items with corresponding point values. Use any of the
items on any of our lists and add some funny ones too. Give each person a
paper bag and tell them to fill the bag (but everything MUST fit into the
bag) with any of the items on the list, add up their points and write the
number of points on the outside of the bag. When the bags are returned, each
team adds the points on the bags. The team with the most points wins the
scavenger hunt.
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Put Your Best Foot
Forward!
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Collect new or gently worn shoes for men, women
and children.
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Sock it to me!
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Collect socks for men, women and children.
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Spring Cleaning!
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Collect cleaning items and supplies (see
attached list).
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Undie Sunday
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Have your church or Sunday School collect new
underwear and undershirts for men, women and children.
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“Make a Difference”
Monday
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For any period of time that you want to do
this, designate Mondays as a day to bring any needed item to donate to those
in need.
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Lend a helping hand!
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Great for little children! Have each child
trace their hand on paper or cardstock, decorate it, write their first name
on it and cut it out. Give each child a bag (any size) and ask them to put
any of our needed items in the bag.
Have them hang their hand print on the bag to deliver to the mission.
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Books
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Collect books for our February Book Fair.
Children can make bookmarks to give out with the books.
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“Souper”
Bowl
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Around Super Bowl time, collect canned soup.
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Oatmeal-A-Thon
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Fantastic school project! Make individual
zip-lock baggies of oatmeal mix (3/4 cup instant oatmeal, 2 plastic spoonfuls
of brown sugar, 1 spoonful of cinnamon). By just adding hot water, these make
a wonderful instant breakfast for our homeless shelter guests. The children
can also collect some “spare change” in oatmeal boxes that can be donated to
the mission.
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