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Help us get ready for next year’s food themed VBS. The decorating committee is already working on creating fun decorations, and they need a variety of everyday items. Get more details and drop off donations outside the Children’s Office.

Donate used clean food packages:
  • Empty food boxes (kids cereal and frozen pizza)
  • Snack bags (potato chips, Cheetos, etc.)
  • Pringles cans and giant candy tubes
  • Square and rectangular take-out food containers
  • Extra-large cardboard (2x2x3 ft. or larger – TV and furniture boxes)
  • Large plastic jars (super-size snack mix)
  • Square 30-egg cartons
Donate clearance summer items or fall decorations
  • Pool noodles
  • Pool inflatables, especially fun food-shaped designs
  • Fun-colored round plastic planters and similar containers
  • Picnic baskets
  • Fall food-themed decor (pumpkins, apples, pies, candy, baked goods)
  • Trick-or-treat Halloween buckets
  • Halloween-themed containers and decorations
Donate miscellaneous used or new items
  • 16.5 oz empty water bottles
  • 3 ft or longer cardboard tubes
  • Old stuffed animals (to be deconstructed)
  • Clean used PVC pipe pieces
  • Large flat-pack foam pieces
  • Glue sticks

 

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