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Support the Nature Center when you donate an item from our needed list of goods.

We appreciate your kind donation!

For the animals, we need:

• Crates
• Animal Carriers
• Bird Seed
• Turtle Food
• Fish Food
• Food and Water Dishes
• Self Watering Dishes
• Kitty Litter
• Clean Sand
• Reptile Vitamins
• Aquariums and aquarium supplies (pumps, filters, lights, gravel, etc)
• Frozen meat
• Sugar Free cereal
• Native Plants (for their enclosures)
• Butterflies (chrysalis)
• Canned Cat Food
• Canned Dog Food
• Swine Pellets
• Frozen Salt Water Tank Food
• Tropical Fish Food Flakes
• Night Crawlers - fishing bait worms
• Crickets
• Meal Worms
• Apples
• Grapes
• Squash
• Broccoli
• Sweet Potatoes
• Bananas
• Green Beans
• Dog toys
• Cat toys
• Jolly balls
• Electric waterers
• Home Depot gift cards
• Lowes gift cards
• Wal-Mart gift cards
• Pet Smart gift cards
• Reptile heating light bulbs
• Reptile heating pads

Summer Camp

• 35mm Film Canisters
• Acrylic Paints
• Borax (2 large boxes)
• Brown Sandwich Bags
• Card Stock Paper
• Coconuts
• Colored Feathers
• Composition Notebooks for Jr. Nat Camp (45)
• Construction Paper (lots)
• Cornstarch
• Cotton balls
• Dry Erase Markers
• Egg Cartons
• Empty and clean 2 liter plastic bottles
• Empty Cardboard Boxes-Large
• Empty cereal boxes
• Empty toilet paper and paper towel tubes
• Fabric Scraps
• Felt Fabric Squares
• First Aid Supplies (Band aids, Neosporin, etc… Kits on sale for $10 at Wal-Mart)
• Gently used socks
• Gimp or Plastic Lace
• Glue Sticks and Bottles of Craft Glue (lots)
• Googley/Wiggle Eyes
• Hole Punches(single hole)
• Hula Hoops and Kick Balls
• Large Roll of “Butcher” Paper
• Manila Folders
• Markers and Crayons
• Marshmallows-large
• Masking Tape
• Nature Magazines to cut up
• Newspaper
• Paper Clips
• Paper Plates & Bowls
• Pine cones
• Pipe Cleaners
• Plastic Cups
• Plastic shopping bags
• Pony Beads-all colors (lots)
• Popsicle Sticks (large size)
• Re-usable shopping bags
• River Rocks (small & smooth)
• Rolls of Tin Foil
• Scissors-Child Size (20-30 pair)
• Scotch Tape, Masking Tape, Duct Tape
• Stick Pins
• Toothpicks
• Water color paint sets (50)
• White printer paper
• White Printer/Copy Paper
• Yarn
• Ziploc Bags

Snacks for each week:

• Fruit Loops
• Goldfish
• Fruit Snacks
• Graham Crackers
• Animal Crackers

Planetarium

• working laptop
• LCD or DLP video projector
• CRT video projector
• single-use latex gloves
• batteries, especially AA, AAA, C, and D
• laser pointers (red and green)
• Kodak Ektagraphic or Elmo carousel slide projectors
• slide projector lenses
• strobes
• single edge razor blades
• Geppe or Wess slide mounts
• various hand tools (wrenches, pliers, screwdrivers, etc.)
• cordless drill
• multimeter
• power strips, UPS's
• some specialty light bulbs: FAV, EXY, EYR

Maintenance and Office

• Bolt cutters
• Electrical tape
• Duct tape 2”
• Masking tape 2”
• Painters tape 2”
• Combination screw driver attachment for cordless drill (long shaft)
• Sawsall blades for wood and metal (short and long)
• Hack saw blades
• Paper for printer
• Office Supplies
• Stapler
• 3 ring binders (any size)
• Disposable gloves
• Any cleaning supplies
• Yard gloves
• Wheel barrow

Events:

• Raffia
• Reclaimed or recycled cardstock paper (unbleached)
• Brown paper gift bags
• Tissue paper
• White fabric (lots and lots of it)
• Christmas ornaments (all kinds but really star and snowflake (white or silver) and glass balls (silver, gold and yellow)
• Tree Toppers
• White flowers
• White table clothes
• White Christmas lights
• Halloween decorations (cute and scary)
• Cake servers