Shopping List

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Content costs are approx $15

• 1 – Letter size pad or notebook
• 5 – Regular Pencils
• 5 – Ballpoint Pens (Blue or black ink)
• 1 – Pencil sharpener
• 1 – Package (10) Colored pencils
• 1 – Small coloring book
• 1 – Small pair blunt scissors
• 1 – Any type of 12-inch ruler, at least one side metric
• Child’s toys for ages 5-12 (see suggested list)

Please put pens and regular pencils in Ziploc® bag.

Etch A Sketch®, kazoos, harmonicas, yo-yos, Lego®, jump ropes, balls, Slinky®, puzzles, toys that light up or make a noise (with extra batteries), etc. Toys should be unisex and be appropriate for 5-12 year age range.

Please do not include second-hand or cheap throwaway toys. Ensure toys are not sharp and do not tear drawstring bags. WARNING: Do not include candy of any kind, military style items, liquid items, or breakable items.

Let Your Hearts Guide Your Hands
Global Care Packages provides your children and family with the valuable opportunity to be “doers of the word, not merely hearers”, to talk with their hands, to speak with their actions. How you go about conducting the project and assembling the bags of supplies for children will send messages surprisingly loud and clear. The care you show in selecting the items, your fidgeting and fussing, the prayers accompanying your activity—will send the messages of concern and compassion, generosity and joy.

• More than ever, make this a personal project.
• Help your children form as large a picture of children around the world and their circumstances.
• Form shopping expeditions; ask parents, relatives, and neighbors to take part. Do it for “service” reasons, not just financial reasons.
• Tilt towards generosity. Fill ten bags with quality items rather than 15 bags with less-than-quality items.

Let your hearts guide your hands.