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Ms. Dempsey from Chicago Ridge IL is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Tying The Colorful Threads Of Our Past To Our Future!

My students need this yarn so that I can integrate into my classroom a wide variety of tactile projects.

  • $573 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Students

Many of my students are the first generation in this country and do not speak English as their first language. For a large number of these children, this is their first school experience.

80% of my students come from low-income families.

We provide two meals a day for all of the students in this district due to their socioeconomic status. School supplies, books and other things many of us take for granted, are a luxury for the students in my school.

My Project

The wide variety of yarn that I am requesting for my students, will allow them the hands on experience of weaving, needle point, learning how to tie knots, and many other tactile experiences.

The eye catching colors and natural texture of the fibers, will help to inspire the creative imaginations of my students.

It will give the children, the opportunity to produce an actual artifact from their past and bring it into their modern world, where crafting is becoming obsolete.

Integrating art with history has always been a passion of mine, that I try to pass onto my students. Helping the children to understand how the two are intertwined is an amazing experience that they will always remember.

Ms. Dempsey
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Nasco School Weaving Yarn Assortment - 25 lbs. • Nasco $136.50 3 $409.50

Materials cost

$409.50

Vendor shipping charges

$40.95

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.14

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$486.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$85.87

Total project goal

$572.46

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$572.46

1 Donor

-$572.46

Donations toward project cost

-$486.59

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$85.87

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$0.00

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