CFS/CEC Wishlist

The Cloud Forest School is always seeking to expand the resources available to our students. Unfortunately, many wonderful classroom supplies are expensive and difficult to find in Costa Rica. We rely on the generosity of visitors to donate materials to the school. Donations are generally tax-deductible through the Cloud Forest School Foundation, a not-for-profit organization in the United States. Please contact either the school or the Cloud Forest School Foundation before bringing donations for which you would like a deduction. We ask that you do not bring any items that are not on this list without contacting the school in advance.

Many thanks from all of our students and staff!

High Priority:

1. Construction paper
2. Liquid Glue (please do not send us glue sticks because they are hard to recycle)
3. Tape: masking tape, duck tape, normal cellotape (clear)
4. Rechargeable batteries (AA and AAA)
5. Battery re-chargers
6. Plastic containers of all sizes (you can pack other supplies into them!)
7. Organic paint and/or washable paint for kinder and prepa
8. Rolls or sheets of contact paper
9. Personal sized and large Whiteboards
10. Whiteboard markers (thick, thin, assorted colors)
11. Whiteboard cleaner
12. Paintbrushes (all sizes)
13. Globes or world maps for classrooms & flag stickers
14. CD/tape players for the classrooms with speakers
15. Spanish/English dictionaries – University of Chicago
16. Brads (paper fasteners)
17. Binder clips (plastic clips)
18. Blank DVDs
19. Digital camera (with memory card)
20. Video camera (with accessories)
21. Overhead Projector
22. Transparency paper
23. Overhead projector markers
24. Small Printer & INK CARTRIDGES
25. Mailing labels (clear and white)
26. Staplers and hole punchers (for numerous sheets)
27. Post –it notes (Sticky notes)
28. Classroom wall clocks
29. Note books (recycled /banana paper)
30. Recycled white lined paper
31. Scissors (kids & adults)
32. Rulers with centimeters and inches. And meter sticks
33. Wall tacks & paper clips
    

Also: any sports, medical or art supplies: Antiseptic wipes, plasters (band-aids), sketch pads, drawing pencils, sports ball pumps&needles, balls, team shirts, jump ropes.

Classroom Supplies:

1. Lined paper  (college ruled &recycled)
2. Classroom clocks (rechargeable batteries)
3. 1 subject spiral notebooks
4. Construction paper
5. Banner paper
6. Plastic clipboards
7. Glue (in bottle, non-toxic if possible)
8. Whiteboard erasers
9. Sidewalk chalk
10. Pencil erasers (cap and regular)
11. Sharpies – permanent markers (black and assorted colors, thick and thin)
12. Multi-colored colored pencils
13. Water colored paint sets
14. Old magazines (for either content or pictures)
15. Stickers- world flag stickers.
16. World Maps
17. Sand-timers (1 and 2 minutes)
18. Walkie Talkies with Chargers
19. Puzzles & games, wooden or cardboard (for ages 3 – 12)
20. Classroom posters (especially science, environmental e.g: solar panels, alternative housing structures, and English posters: quotes etc)
21. Tempera paint (organic if possible) basic colours.

Puzzles & Games:

1. Battleship
2. Chess Sets
3. Dominoes
4. Math games all levels
5. Twister
6. Candy Land & othe basic math games
7. Word Games: Scrabble, Boggle for all levels

General Supplies:

1. Roll of school posters (ask for info)
2. Stapler & Staples (standard size)
3. Sentence strips
4. 3 hole punch
5. Paper clips
6. Thumb tacks
7. Tape: scotch, masking, duct
8. Blank CDs
9. Whiteout
10. Cleaning rags

Math Supplies:

1. Graph paper
2. Base 10 blocks
3. Cuisennarire rods
4. Metric rulers
5. Meter sticks
6. Large Chart Tables
7. Compasses, protractors
8. Flash cards
9. Other manipulatives (you can ask at a School Supply Store for these)

Science Supplies:

1. Standard Microscopes
2. Dissections kits
3. Test tubes holder
4. Periodic Table
5. “Galaxy”, “Space”, etc videos

Sports Equipment:

1. Small cones and bases
2. Large mesh bags (for P.E)
3. Balls (Basketball, Soccer, dodgeball, tennis, nerf…)
4. Games
5. Whistles
6. Stopwatches
7. Jump ropes
8. Frisbees
9. Ball pumps (handheld or foot)
10. Needles for ball pumps
11. Baseball Gloves

Medical Supplies:

1. Boxes of Band-aids (assorted sizes)
2. Re-usable Hot/Cold packs
3. Lice shampoos and combs
4. Lice spray for fabrics
5. Small & large ACE bandages
6. Large bottles of Ibuprofen/children’s pain killers
7. Large bottles of Acetaminophen
8. Benadryl
9. Rolls of medical tape
10. Tubes of anti-biotic cream
11. Tubes of Hydrocortisone cream
12. Kids chewable Tylenol (flavored)
13. Bottles of Children’s liquid Tylenol
14. Bottles of cough syrup (flavored)
15. Boxes of Butterfly bandages
16. Epi-pens

Art Supplies: (these things can be found at an Art Supply Store like Pearl Art Supply – www.pearlpaint.com)

1. Drawing paper (larger sizes)
2. Watercolor paper
3. Other paper (construction, stock, oak tag, canvas pad, printmaking)
4. Ceramic materials (low fire clay, firing cones-small boxes 06, 07 and 08)
5. Clay tools sets (rolling pins, spray bottles, small sea sponges)
6. Glazes for clay (Duncan, pre-mixed, non-toxic, large jug clear glaze)
7. Fine art drawing materials (charcoal, conte, drawing pencils, pastels, oil pastels)
8. Transfer pencils for transferring designs onto fabric (they look purple)
9. Pencil sharpeners
10. Art marker sets (for High School)
11. Environmentally friendly paint
12. Non-toxic colored stains for wood
13. Printmaking rollers and brayers
14. Polyurethane (non-toxic if possible)
15. Small cans non-toxic outdoor house-paints (for murals)
16. Acrylic paints, all colors
17. Watercolor sets (Prang)
18. Paintbrushes (for older students)
19. Brush cleaner
20. Calligraphy pens (dipping kind)
21. Colored inks
22. Clear sticker paper
23. Mat board, all sizes, all colors
24. Illustration board, hot or cold press
25. Acrylic matte, medium large jugs
26. Mineral spirits, large jug or many small jars (non-toxic replacement for turpentine)
27. Woodcut carving tool sets
28. Linoleum for ¨woodcut¨ prints, all sizes
29. Patterned sticker paper
30. Patterned paper

Craft Supplies:

1. Felt, yarn, beads, feathers, wood shapes
2. Modeling clay
3. Pom-poms, confetti, glitter, sequins, etc.
4. Pipe cleaners
5. Popsicle sticks
6. Design scissors
7. Stencils
8. Powdered tempera paint (primary colors)
9. Liquid paint (organic & washable if possible)
10. White glue
11. Glass paint

Book Wish-list

Title,Author,Publisher,ISBN (Quantity)
Sound Out Chapter Books, Various, High Noon Books, 1-57128-130-4 (All series)
Basic English Grammar, 0-13-184937-9 (6)
501English Verbs, Barron’s Educational Series, Inc, 0-7641-0304-0 (11)
501 Spanish Verbs, Barron’s Educational Series, Inc     0-8120-9282-1 (11)
Prentice Hall Mathematics: Geometry    Pearson Education Inc, 0-13-062560-4 (24)
Algebra I, Pearson Education Inc, 0-13-052316-X, (11)
Algebra II with Trigonemetry, Pearson Education Inc, 0-13-051968-5 (11)
Physical Science, Pearson Education Inc as Globe Fearon, 0-130-23840-6 (25)
Prentice Hill: Biology, Pearson Education Inc, 0-13-036701-X (15)
Chemistry: Middle School, Glencoe Science, ? (25)
Tom and Ricky Mystery Series,Bob Wright, High Noon Books, 0-87879-330-5 (All series)
The Divide/Back to the Divide/Jinx on the Divide, Elizabeth Kay, Scholastic Publishing (All series)
Jackie Chan Adventure Series  (3)
COLLINS Spanish – English Dictionaries: Pocket dictionaries and large (20)

In General:

• Art books, preferably on Modern Art
• Art books for projects like batik or knitting with kids
• Large Print reading books – low level for visually impaired.
• Reading Guides for novels – all grades
• Fiction books for all ages.
• Basic Board Books – ABCs, numbers, animals, etc (in Spanish)
• Books about water (in Spanish)
• Books about other cultures (in Spanish)
• Environmental Education books & DVDs (BBC Planet Earth series/ Blue Planet)