I bought a 64 pack of crayons at Dollar tree and a jumbo activity book. They take up a lot of room...should I chuck the 64 pack and get a smaller pack of Crayolas and that way have more room for stuff?

How many items did you manage to get in your boxes?

Here is mine:
1 frog puzzle
2 Matchbox cars
4 rubber bouncy balls
1 jumbo activity book
1 64 pack crayons
2 toothbrushes
1 bar Ivory soap
2 regular size cans of PlayDoh
and the rest of the spaces are filled with candy

I labeled it for a 5-9 year old boy because of the rubber balls. If I change out the crayons I can get more cars and trucks in there.

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Laurie
Mommy to Seth Patrick ~ born April 11, 2002 and Matthew Tyler ~ born October 3, 2003 and Kathleen Grace ~ born September 5, 2006

We've got a bunch of shoeboxes that our Brownie troop is putting together for a local operation shoebox (
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the shoeboxes got o Honduras I think so the items put in there are far more on the 'necessities' list than the toys list.

The list of things for our shoeboxes are:
Musts in the box:
paper/spiral notebook
pencil or pen
crayons or markers
scissors
pencil sharpener
toothbrush
toothpaste
shampoo
dental floss
comb or brush
bar of soap
one toy (doll, ball, car, cards, marbles, plastic kazoos, harmonica, jump rope, yo-yo, dominoes, etc)

other items:
glue stick
tape
talk powder
band-aids
under garment
socks / sandals
sweats/ sweater
skirt/dress
t-shirt
little boy shorts
face cloth/ small towel

The school requested that we put some essentials in our boxes and then a few toy type items.

I put toothbrushes (both were character ones) and toothpaste.
Pencils
small notepad
shampoo
crayons (16 count)
markers (8 pack)
small flashlight with extra batteries (3 sets)
some balls
glue sticks
stickers
gummy candy
sissors
matchbox cars
yo yo
glow sticks

I have never done a shoebox. I take a few names from our church gift tree every year.

i never heard of this but I think im going to do 2 this year one from each kid, I think thye will love doing this! thanks so much! i alway donate $ to the homeless shelter at christmas time & we have a home for mothers around here too and I try to donate things there a few times a year !

**actually i clicked that kink and it says local only? anyone know where else we can go to do it?***

edited to say: i yahoo'd it and i think we'll do it for the troops! thanks !