North Shore Resource Centre

Resource Items Update

 

 

Things we would particularly like at the moment:

 

• Hessian or similar for preschool embroidery​​

 

• Paper & cardboard in varying sizes, colours & thicknesses

 

• Beads and sequins

 

• Feathers

 

• All sizes of felt

 

• Wool suitable for babies and young children

 

 

 

 

Things we don’t need or don’t need at present:

 

• Polystyrene

• Household rubbish

• Ring binders, clear files and plastic folders

• Newspaper

• Magazines

• Cardboard boxes - cereal, dry food, home-ware etc

• Plastic bags

• Hard & Soft Toys

• Household recyclables - plastic containers, bottles etc

• Clothing - used & unused

• Dacron

• USED greeting cards, xmas cards, Birthday cards

• Toilet roll inners (never)

• Shelving offcuts & old blinds 

• Bubblewrap

 

 

 

 

 

 

Suggested items for donation

 

• Black sand

• Bottle tops                                                           milk, Plastic, metal etc

• Bread bag tags                                                                                                                         

• Cardboard                                                            Sheets any size or thickness

• Cardboard cones

• Cardboard tubes                                                 Various lengths and diameters -                                                                                                but no toilet rolls  

• Cellophane

• shoe boxes

• Cones / seed pods /nuts

• Corflute                                                                  Any size

• Cork / corks                                                           Any size

• Dried leaves / petals

• Driftwood

• Electricans' conduit

• Expired pasta / flour / oil /  rice                        For collage; play dough; doblek; shakers

• Fabric                                                                    Medium - large pieces unless special fabrics

• Feathers                                                               Natural or coloured

• Greetings cards                                                   For collage

• Labels                                                                   Pictorial or with usable surface

• Leather                                                                 About A5 or bigger

• Magnets                                                                Any sort

• Matches - used etc                                              Bridge building

• Model cars, boats, buildings etc                       Other people have started but not finished

• Nuts and bolts / nails                                          Any sort

• Paper                                                                     A4 or bigger

• Patterned cellotape                                            Christmas, birthday, trade

• Pizza tripods                                                        The ones put in to prevent box collapse

• Plastic strapping

• Plumbers' piping and guttering         

• Previous years' calendars                                   For collage

• Ribbon                                                                   50 cms or more

• Sawdust / wood shavings                                   Untreated

• Shells / sea glass

• Sheepskin pieces

• Spindles                                                                  From yarn, wire, fabric etc

• Springs                                                                    Any sort

• Stationery

• Straws - preferably unused paper straws

• Tissue paper

• Tooth picks / satay sticks / chopsticks             unused

• Wire                                                                       Electrical / fencing