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Ms. Melissa from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Us Play With Our Food!

Help me give my students a fantastic book that will inspire families to make healthy and funny meals!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Melissa's classroom raised $465

This project is fully funded

My Project

I want my students to be healthy and to have fun! I would love to give my students their very own copies of Funny Food before we make our own funny food breakfasts with waffles and fruit! The book shows photographs of different ways to make funny faces on different breakfast foods. The book will inspire them to make healthy, fun meals!

Your donation will provide my students with a resource guide to how to make healthy and funny meals.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and your donation will help my students to love breakfast! Please consider investing in my awesome students!

Ms. Melissa PS 261 Zipporiah Mills Grades PreK-2 Brooklyn, NY View local requests

More than a third of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

22 students impacted 8donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Funny Food: 365 Fun, Healthy, Silly, Creative Breakfasts • Amazon Business $19.95 18 $359.10

Materials cost

$359.10

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.39

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$394.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$69.62

Total project goal

$464.11

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$464.11

5 Donors

-$303.74

Donations toward project cost

-$279.74

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.00

match offer

-$135.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$114.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$25.37

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$0.00

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