Assemble Literacy Kits

Donate literacy kits to feed hungry minds.

Assemble literacy kits to ensure school-age children are set up for academic success.

Potential Recipients

Connect with a local organization that supports literacy, works with immigrants and refugees, or works with unhoused families. Lots of organizations are excited to receive a donation of literacy kits!

Before your start, reach out and ask what their needs are. Your organization may add to the list of essential items below.

What you’ll need

  • Stationery

  • Pens, crayons, or markers

  • Gallon-sized resealable plastic bags or small canvas bags you can decorate.

  • Permanent markers or fabric markers to decorate your choice of bag.

  • Essentials

Essential Items You Might Include in Each Kit

  • Composition notebook, with or without drawing space

  • Pencils

  • Erasers

  • New or gently used book

Instructions

  • Create cheerful cards of encouragement for each kit.

  • Fill each decorated plastic or fabric bag with the items you’ve gathered.

  • Drop off your donations together.

Reflect Together

  • What do you love most about reading?

  • Can you name a favorite book or two? A favorite character or two?

  • How could you persuade someone who doesn't love to read to try your favorite book?

  • Do you like to visit the public library?

  • Do you think it's important to make books available, for free, to everyone? Why or why not?

Resources

A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader edited by Maria Papova and Claudia Bedrick
Perfect for book lovers ages 10 and up, this collection of deliciously inspiring essays features writers from Neil Gaiman and Jane Goodall to Rebecca Solnit and Regina Specktor.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce
This whimsical, reality-bending book is full of food for thought. It even inspired an Academy Award-winning short film.

Take it further

  • Add kits to a Little Free Library.

  • Host a book drive and assemble literacy kits to include with your book donations.

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