Donation Drives

Donation Drive Ideas

 

Undies Drive

The Children’s Shelter is always in need of new undergarments for the kids. You can help by collecting the following items:

• Diapers and pull-ups
• Preschool boys and girls underwear, sizes 2T-5T
• Boys’ underwear and undershirts, sizes 6-18
• Girls’ underwear and tank-tops, sizes 6-16
• Teen girls’ underwear, junior sizes 5-10 (but no briefs, please)
• Teen girls’ tank-tops, sizes small-2XL
• Bras (training bras – 40DD)
• Sports bras
• White athletic socks (boys’ and girls’)

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Beauty Drive

Sometimes to feel beautiful on the inside, you need to feel beautiful on the outside. Help our kids feel beautiful (and handsome) by collecting the following new items:

• Make-up
• Hair brushes, combs, and picks for all ages
• Hair dryers
• Hair straighteners and curlers
• Hair accessories (clips, bands, pins, etc.) for all ages
• Hair care products (hair sprays, gels, etc.)
• Small hair rubber bands for braiding
• Ethnic hair care products
• Nail polish and nail polish remover
• Manicure/ pedicure kits
• Body lotions, soaps, sprays and scrubs
• Razors and shaving cream

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Squeaky Clean Drive

Many of the kids who stay at the Children’s Shelter have not had the opportunity to learn proper personal hygiene. While at the Children’s Shelter they can learn important skills like brushing teeth, washing hands and bathing regularly. You can help them stay clean and healthy by collecting the following items:

• Toothbrushes for infants, toddlers, youth and teens
• Toothpaste for infant, toddlers, youth and teens
• Dental floss
• Travel containers for soap and shampoos
• Body lotion
• Soap and body wash
• Shampoo and conditioner
• Anti-bacterial hand soap
• Facial cleansers and scrubs for teens
• Acne medicine for teens
• Deodorant for boys and girls
• Tampons/ sanitary napkins for teens

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Healthy and Happy Drive

With a capacity of 48 children, we have a high likelihood of having sick kids. To help us keep the kids at the Children’s Shelter healthy and happy, you can collect the following first-aid and healthcare items:

• Infant and Children’s Acetaminophen (Tylenol)  and Ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil)
• Regular-strength Acetaminophen and Ibuprofen
• Naproxen (Aleve)
• Loratadine (Claritin)
• Cetirizine (Zyrtec)
• Benadryl
• Cough and cold medicine for all ages
• Midol
• Children and teen multi-vitamins
• Baby gas drops
• Baby Orajel
• Diaper rash cream
• Triple anti-biotic ointment
• Hydrocortisone cream
• Athletes’ foot cream
• Saline drops and spray
• Band-aids and bandages
• Pedialyte
• Pediasure
• Facial tissue
• Cetaphil soap and lotion

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Sophia Scott Expanding Horizons Drive

Off-site outings give the children the opportunity to participate in fun activities that help them learn to manage fear and stress while also building self-esteem. You can help by collecting the following items:

Gift cards and passes to:

• Malco Movie Theaters
• Sugar Creek Cinema
• Lewis & Clark
• Barnes & Noble
• Great Day Skate Place
• Fun City
• Chuck E. Cheese
• Jump Zone
• Silver Dollar City
• Jones Center for Families
• Walton Arts Center 
• Art Center of the Ozarks
• University of Arkansas athletics events

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Birthday Drive

Birthdays are important milestones in a child’s life. If a child has a birthday while at the Children’s Shelter, we want to make sure it is one to remember. You can help make that memory by collecting the following items:

• Make-up
• MP3 Players
• Dolls
• Action Figures
• Educational electronic toys
• Wallets
• Purses
• Watches
• Hand-held video games
• Legos
• Card games
• Basketballs, footballs, soccer balls, volleyballs, etc.
• CD’s (“Now That’s What They Call Music” or any edited Top 40 compilation)
• Art supplies for teen-agers (drawing pencils, pastels, sketch pads, etc.)
• Party supplies (paper plates, napkins, cups, streamers, blowers, balloons, etc.)

Gift cards to:

• Walmart
• Target
• Payless Shoes
• Old Navy
• Academy Sports & Outdoors
• Bath & Body Works
• Hobby Lobby
• iTunes
• Claire’s
• Barnes & Noble

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­­­­­­­­­­­­­Memories and Milestones Drive

Through our case management program, our case managers work individually with each child to help them set and meet personal goals, build relationships and focus on strengths. The following items are used to reward children in meeting a personal goal as well as to help them focus on and capture personal strengths, desires and dreams:

• Scrapbook albums
• Scrapbook paper
• Scrapbook embellishments (stickers, buttons, ribbons, etc.)
• Photo printer paper
• Photo albums
• Picture frames

Gift cards to:

• McDonald’s
• Chick-Fil-A
• Build-A-Bear
• Hobby Lobby
• Walmart
• Target

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Back-to-School Drive

New school supplies are a great way to get a child excited about learning! Through the Children’s Shelter On-site School, we equip the kids with all the supplies they will need during their stay and when they leave. You can help the kids be prepared for school by collecting the following items:

Given to/Sent with kids

• Colored pencils (12-24 piece packs)
• Markers (8-10 piece packs)
• Washable glue
• Glue sticks
• 1” binders
• Index cards
• one-subject spiral notebooks
• Adult scissors
• Watercolors (washable)
• Pencils
• Mechanical pencils
• Large erasers
• Folders with brads
• Notebook paper
• Construction paper
• Pens (blue, black, multi-color)
• Rulers
• Scientific calculators
• Backpacks (all ages)
• Pencil bags

Student Classroom Projects

• Card stock (white, multi-colored)
• Poster board (all sizes)
• Air-dry clay
• Acrylic paint
• Tissue paper
• Ribbon (various colors, designs and sizes)
• Foam building blocks

Classroom Supplies

• Thin-point dry-erase makers (multi-color)
• Dry-erase board cleaner
• Disinfectant wipes
• Facial tissue
• Small pencil boxes
• Ultra-fine-point markers (multi-color)
• Individual CD players with headphones
• Scientific calculators