Store Cupboard List

Here is the store cupboard list:

Stationery

• Colouring and graphite pencils
• Crayons
• Pens - felt tip, markers and biro
• Permanent marker(s)
• Stapler & staples
• Hole punch
• Sellotape
• Double sided sticky tape
• Scissors (if possible, separate ones for paper and fabric)
• Glue-stick and liquid/pva glue
• Glue spatulas
• Paper fasteners (the brass ones that open up at the back)
• Paper clips
• Elastic bands
• Treasury tags
• Paint & paintbrushes
• Chalks
• Ruler
• Eraser
• Pencil sharpener
• Blu-tack
• Glitter
• Craft wire

Paper & card

• Plain paper
• Plain thin card
• Card from broken up boxes (ask your supermarket)
• Corrugated cardboard (from boxes usually)
• Any packaging materials
• Tracing paper
• Tissue paper
• Crepe paper
• Coloured tissues
• Newspapers
• Magazines
• Comics
• Sweet wrappers
• Chocolate box inserts
• Scraps/leftover wallpaper
• Wrapping paper
• Old Christmas/birthday cards
• Paper plates - mix sizes
• Paper dishes
• Paper doilies

Materials

• Tin foil
• Old socks
• Old gloves
• Old clothes (for dressing up and cutting up!)
• Felt
• Fabric remnants
• Buttons
• Sequins/beads/fake jewels
• Feathers
• Dishcloths, jayclothes
• Sponge cloths
• Sponges & pan scrubbers
• Scouring pads
• Ribbons
• Cord
• Old tights/stockings
• Stuffing (eg from old pillows)

Games/activities

• Playdough (see recipe in 'Arts & Crafts')
• Yo-yo
• Skittles (or see 'Outdoors')
• Tiddlywinks
• Marbles
• Pack cards/snap cards
• Bubbles
• Ping pong balls
• Frisbee
• Bats & balls- mix types/sizes
• Skipping rope
• Longer rope (like tow rope)

Bits and bobs(!)

• Cookie cutters
• Pipe cleaners
• Cotton wool balls
• Balloons - round & long
• Wooden spoons
• Coloured tapers
• Corks (washed, if already used!)
• Lolly sticks
• Bamboo skewers
• Cocktail sticks
• Stickers
• Safety pins
• Needles & pins
• Wool - various colours
• Cotton threads
• String
• 'Googly' eyes
• Comb
• White wax candle
• Pressed leaves
• Pressed flowers/petals
• Conkers
• Twigs
• Pebbles
• Shells
• Dice
• Drinking straws
• Selection of coins
• Dried peas
• Grains/pulses - rice/lentils etc
• Pasta shapes - incl coloured
• Seeds - cress/alfalfa
• Flower seeds-sunflower or annual varieties
• Rubber gloves
• Used & clean egg shells
• Leftover wall tiles
• Broken up old tiles (for mosaics)

Used (& clean!) cartons etc

• Washing up liquid bottles
• Yoghurt pots
• Egg cartons
• Milk cartons (the plastic ones)
• Glass milk bottles
• Jam jars/mustard jars etc
• Foil pie/cake dishes
• Smarties tube
• Plastic & paper cups
• Toilet roll tubes
• Kitchen roll tubes
• Wrapping paper tubes
• Shoe boxes
• Ice cream cartons
• Empty sellotape rolls
• Empty matchboxes (all sizes)
• Plastic carrier bags
• Empty cotton reels
• Plastic bottles - mix sizes
• Bottle tops
• Milk bottle tops
• Cereal boxes
• Plastic film containers
• Tin cans (baked beans etc)
• Plant pots (small)

.and a membership to entertaintheKIDS.com so you know what to do with all this stuff!