Do you remember the days when you were a kid and you opened up that brand new box of 8 or 16 crayons? You knew it was a special day when you flipped open the delicate tab and saw the small, shining points of never used round objects made of colored wax. With eyes wide open and pupils dilated, you would reach in the colorful box and pull one out only to be enchanted by the smell of fresh cardboard mixed with colorful wax and sprinkled with a dash of tightly wrapped paper. Go ahead and close your eyes and take a deep breath and remember the smell. You know you want to. After composing yourself and with a crayon in your hand, you then imagined being the next great artist of your age liken only to Vincent van Gogh or Michelangelo.
You then move on to the Excalibur of your supplies. A tool that when wielded for good could create objects and shapes never before seen in this world. A tool with such power that it must be respected at all times. Mothers are afraid of them in the hands of children, but fathers encourage their children to throw caution to the wind and use them at will. This tool, known around the world as scissors, lures children in as they use them to cut what they were designed to, paper. Without cause and while cutting paper, this tool talks to children and convinces them to use it on such things use as sibling’s hair, furniture, clothes, fingernails, and yes, even the beloved crayon. Even though this phenomenon has gone on for centuries, no one has figured out a way to stop it. The power must be controlled.
But I digress. I could go on and on about everything related to school supplies, but at last, I will stop here. Getting school supplies as a kid was almost like getting presents during Christmas. It was special if you can remember back to it. Everything was wrapped, brand new, and waiting to be used to the limit of your imagination.
Each year around this time, we collect supplies to give to the schools in our local community. This year, we used the supplies we collected from our church members and added to it the school supplies we bought with money from our August Dollar Day.
We divided up the following supplies and delivered them to every elementary school in LEISD and to the NTCA in Little Elm.
- 184 – Dozen Pencils
- 168 – Packs of Paper
- 210 – Washable Markers
- 56 – Dry Erase Markers
- 126 – Boxes of Crayons
- 37 (3 packs) – Kleenex Tissues
- 94 – Packages of Colored Pencils
- 105 – Composition Notebooks
- 84 – Glue Sticks
- 240 – Folders
We delivered all of the supplies to each of the schools on Tuesday, August 18. A big thank you goes out to everyone who donated, to those that delivered the supplies and to Cheryl Fields for going out and buying $1000 of school supplies with the Dollar Day money.