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Wish list

Sitting around the house
  • Legos or K’Nex
  • CDs/DVDs - blank or used
  • Balls (golf, tennis, ping-pong, baseball..)
  • Paper /plastic grocery bags
  • Beads
  • Buttons from shirts
  • Stuffing
  • Marbles
  • Christmas lights (working or not)
  • Kitchen utensils with holes in them (colanders, spoons with holes)
  • Yarn
  • Tripods
Rescue from the trash
  • Cardboard tubes (paper towels, wrapping paper, shipping tubes)
  • Used manila folders
  • Hard mailers (like election junk mail)
  • Hard cardboard sheets from the back of paper pads
  • Green plastic fruit baskets (the kind strawberries come in)
  • Mesh produce bags (like for oranges and onions)
  • Hard packing foam (not styrofoam)
  • Corrugated plastic election signs (or any signs in that material)
  • Plastic bottle caps and lids
  • 2L bottles (empty and rinsed please)
Unused electronics in your closet

  • USB mice
  • Working smartphones (android or iphones)
  • Power strips/surge protectors
  • Old electrical devices with moving parts (VCRs, DVDs, tape players, printers, toasters, anything with an on/off switch - no microwaves, monitors or TVs)
  • Micro-USB cables
  • Apple lighting cables
  • USB-C cables
  • Animated holiday decorations (moving or responsive decorations from Halloween, dancing Santas, etc)
  • Working android tablets
From the garage

  • PVC pipe / PVC connectors
  • Flexible tubing
  • Hardwood (no flooring, check first)
  • Hard sheet plastic (acrylic)
  • Springs
  • Dowels
  • Clamps