Weekly Activity: July 3, 2023
Community Connections
Animal Shelter Donations
(Early Literacy, Elementary, Middle Grades)
Team up with a local animal shelter adoption center to run your own “donation drive”! First, ask your local animal shelter what kinds of items they need, like old towels. Tweens could help promote the drive amongst their friends and tally the items, and even take a field trip to deliver them at the end of the summer.
Here is an example from The Southeast Volusia Humane Society Wish List.
This shelter is always in need of the following supplies:
- cat/kitten food (first ingredient protein)
- grain-free cat/kitten food
- dog/puppy food (first ingredient protein)
- grain-free dog/puppy food
- cat treats (regular and grain free)
- dog treats (the smellier, the better)
- cat litter (pine pellets or non-clumping)
- toilet paper
- kitchen sized trash bags
- contractor trash bags
- Dawn dish detergent
- Clorox bleach
- martingale dog collars (all sizes)
- paper towels
Community Food Drive and Donations
(Teens)
Call a local organization such as a food pantry, homeless shelters, or local chapters of groups like the Kiwanis, Lions Clubs, and Rotary. Ask what food items are needed, often canned foods and nonperishable items like peanut butter, whole grain pasta and brown rice.
Community Care Kits
(Adults)
Reach out to relevant organizations—such as those that serve people without homes or domestic violence survivors—and ask them what they need and how you can help. The most useful care kit items for individuals in these populations:
Example care kit ideas for people without or in between homes:
- Clothes such as socks, gloves, and hats
- Hygiene items such as soap, shampoo, lotion, feminine products, razors and shaving cream, tissue packs, bandages, wet wipes, toothbrushes and toothpaste, and sunscreen
- Food and drink, such as water bottles, hydration tablets, snack packs, granola bars, dried fruit, crackers, peanut butter, and cans of food with pull tabs
- Miscellany such as plastic bags, utensils, etc.
