The current wish list includes the following items:

School Supplies

• Mechanical Pencils
• Regular Calculators
• TI-86 Calculations (Texas Instrument)
• Basic Folders (For Elementary through High School children)
• College Ruled Notebooks w/ easy tear paper (w/out the spiral binding)
• 2 inch 3 ring binders (5)
• Pens
• Erasers
• Scissors (Adult and Kid scissors)
• Pencil Carriers
• Tape (Scotch, masking, duct)
• Staplers
• Chalk
• Erasers

Art Supplies

• Water color paints
• Paintbrushes (small through large sizes)(50)
• Acrylic Paints
• Nice white paper
• Posterboard (All Colors)
• Crayons
• Glitter
• Thin Markers in a 20 marker set ( 7 sets)
• Markers (Thick & thin) (20 sets)
• Colored Pencils
• Clay
• Scraps to glue (Like felt, fluffy balls, etc.)
• Large Rolls of Paper (Any Color)
• Pipe Cleaners

Games

• Chess
• Pictionary
• Checkers
• Cranium
• Sorry
• Decks of Cards
• Uno
• Taboo
• Twister
• Kids Pictionary
• Scategories Junior
• Any game involving Pokemon
• Water Toys for outside in the summer (Slip n'slide, crazy octopus, etc.)
• Plastic bases for kickball
• Basketball
• Whistle (For Soccer)
• Boggle and Boggle Jr.
• Scrabble and Scrabble Jr.
• Spelling oriented games
• Educational board games (2nd-4th grade)

Supplies

• Disposable Cameras for field trips
• Globe
• World Map
• Addition, Subtraction & Multiplication Cards (Grades 2 & 3)
• Paper used to practice writing cursive
• Gallon of Elmer's glue to refill the little bottles of glue
• Educational Software (CD-Roms to help with multiplication, grades 2-4)
• 3 hole punch (2)
• Big plastic boxes to store and carry supplies in Little Dry-Erase Boards (Up to 30) - used to do group study work
• Plastic Cups, bowls & plates (35) - Not Disposable
• Photo Albums for pictures of Dreamers
• Props for the skits that the Dreamers do: Costumes, whacky hats, etc.
• Bean Bags
• Cart with wheels
• CD Burners
• Digital Cameras
• School supplies as part of the School Supply Drive

Incentive Gifts for the Dreamers to work for by doing well in school

• Stickers
• Little sets of Legos
• Matchbox cars/hotwheels
• Anything else for boys in second to fourth grade
• Yo-yos
• Travel Board Games
• Holiday gifts as part of the Adopt-a-Family program

Books

• Books: People's History of the United States
• McGraw Hill Math Workbooks (Grades 6, 7, 8)
• McGraw Hill Writing Workbooks (Grades 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
• Any workbooks for Grades 2-4 (Math, writing, science, maps, geography)
• Workbooks for children learning to write cursive
• Subscription to Sports Illustrated for Kids or any other kids magazine
• World Atlas
• English-Spanish/Spanish-English Dictionary (10 Adult Editions, 15 Editions for Elementary school aged children)
• College Level English Dictionary
• Short Chapter Books - American Girl Series or others for 2nd and 3rd grades
• Science Topic Books for 2nd-4th Grades

Scholastic Book Program

• Cash donations so that the Dreamers can choose their own books from the Scholastic Book catalog

Cleaning Supplies for the Centers

• Paper towels, Kleenex, Bars of soap

Donate Your Car

Donate your car to charity by calling 303-444-3636. Cars Helping Kids, Inc., will pick up your vehicle at no cost, and you will recieve a tax deductible donation receipt for the donation. The donation will support both IHAD and Big Brothers/Big Sisters.

To make an in-kind donation, please call 303-444-3636. IHAD is an official 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, and verfication of your donation can be given for your tax purposes.