Gifts of Love will provide more than 700 backpacks filled with grade-appropriate school supplies to children (in grades Pre-K through 12) in Greater Hartford. We need your help!
Backpack supplies can be dropped off at the new home of Gifts of Love – 34 East Main Street in Avon, M-F (from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.).
Suggested Items Include:
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- New School Backpacks - All Sizes
- Lunch Boxes
- Pencil Boxes
- Packages of #2 Pencils
- Highlighters
- Handheld Pencil Sharpeners
- Pocket Folders
- Glue Sticks
- Crayons (box of 24)
- Watercolors (1 package)
- Markers (box of 8 or 10 markers)
- Colored Pencils (box of 12 or 15 pencils)
- 3-Ring Binders
- Post-it Notes
- Composition Books
- Pens
- Dry-Erase Markers
- Rulers (12”)
- Tab Dividers
- USB Flash Drives
- Dictionary
- Thesaurus
- 8-Piece Geoset Geometry Set
- Loose-leaf Paper (3-hole filler paper)
- 1-Subject Spiral Notebooks
- Stretchy Book Covers (regular and jumbo)
- Calculators
For more information, contact Karen at kreid@giftsoflovect.org
