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Mrs. Bowen from Silver Spring MD is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Art Room Library Needed!

My students need books in their art library! My students need 40 books that will help teach them art history, drawing art, and art appreciation. Thank you!

  • $536 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

My classroom every day is full of chaos, creativity, and color. Students always walk into my room and say, "It smells like paint!" I smile and tell them I want it to! I love their art! These books will help these students understand, appreciate, and enjoy art more!

I have 600 students from Pre-K to 5th grade!

They are always seeking to learn, love to create and have a thirst for knowledge that I can't keep up with. Our school is growing, every day getting new students from all over the country and all over the world.

My Project

Every day the students get a small amount of free choice art time at the end of class. They can choose to use that time to draw in a sketchbook or read an art book. They always are asking for more books to read and more ideas and pictures to draw! These books will be used every day, 6 times a day, by hundreds of students who will read and love them.

This project will improve my classroom through expanding the students' knowledge of art making, art history, and art appreciation.

It will also aid in helping students learn to read and grow as readers. Thank you for helping my students!

Mrs. Bowen
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Why Is Blue Dog Blue? • Amazon Business $15.90 1 $15.90
The Mixed-Up Chameleon • Amazon Business $14.23 1 $14.23
Color Dance • Amazon Business $14.21 1 $14.21
Drawing for the Absolute Beginner: A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Drawing (Art for the Absolute Beginner) • Amazon Business $13.62 1 $13.62
Henri's Scissors • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Let's Paint! • Amazon Business $13.45 1 $13.45
How to Draw Animals in Simple Steps • Amazon Business $13.25 1 $13.25
The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art • Amazon Business $12.64 1 $12.64
Too Much Glue • Amazon Business $12.57 1 $12.57
Art • Amazon Business $12.07 1 $12.07
Monsters Love Colors • Amazon Business $12.02 1 $12.02
Planes (How to Draw) • Amazon Business $11.75 1 $11.75
How to Draw Knights and Castles • Amazon Business $11.75 1 $11.75
How to Draw Pets • Amazon Business $11.75 1 $11.75
How to Draw Extreme Sports • Amazon Business $11.75 1 $11.75
How to Draw Fairies • Amazon Business $11.75 1 $11.75
The Day the Crayons Came Home • Amazon Business $11.56 1 $11.56
Viva Frida (Morales, Yuyi) • Amazon Business $11.31 1 $11.31
Mouse Shapes • Amazon Business $11.05 1 $11.05
Fantasy Castles (How to Draw) • Amazon Business $10.61 1 $10.61
Sky Color (Creatrilogy) • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
Beautiful Oops! • Amazon Business $10.43 1 $10.43
Katie and the Starry Night • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
How to Draw Insects in Simple Steps • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
How to Draw Dinosaurs in Simple Steps • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Where the Wild Things Are • Amazon Business $9.75 1 $9.75
Anholt's Artists Activity Book • Amazon Business $9.31 1 $9.31
Ish (Creatrilogy) • Amazon Business $8.14 1 $8.14
The Colors of Us • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
A Color of His Own • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Dot • Amazon Business $7.74 1 $7.74
Katie Meets The Impressionists • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Very Busy Spider -Miniature version book. • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Leonardo and the Flying Boy (Anholt's Artists Books For Children) • Amazon Business $6.91 1 $6.91
Little Blue and Little Yellow • Amazon Business $6.63 1 $6.63
Mouse Paint • Amazon Business $6.00 1 $6.00
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? My First Reader • Amazon Business $5.20 1 $5.20
Giraffes Can't Dance • Amazon Business $4.24 1 $4.24

Materials cost

$395.61

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$23.74

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.93

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$455.28

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$80.34

Total project goal

$535.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$535.62

9 Donors

-$535.61

Donations toward project cost

-$455.28

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$80.33

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

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$0.00

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