Donating Scrapbook Supplies

I fortunately found a teacher at a middle school in town who has after school scrapbook club, 1-2 (separate groups) days a week depending on how many sign up per semester.

Places I have donated:

Local children's hospital - they have a program for NICU mom's to make scrapbooks of their babies NICU time

Local senior's centre - they have drop in classes where they make cards

A reuse centre - drop off items and take items you can use

A scrapbooking crop where they have a share table

I had asked so many places and finally was able to donate some to a public library. Unfortunately some things as much as it hurt me I just had to throw in the trash.

I donated a bunch of stuff to a girls organization called Girls, Inc. Maybe there is one in your area, or a YWCA?

Or maybe even a home school group or children's hospital (our NIC U makes some scrapbooks for the little ones for the families to take home).

We have a local Senior Center that has their own crafting thrift store. I've given some to them and others on Freecycle, Nextdoor and Facebook Buy Nothing groups.

I've taken a lot of scrapbook stuff to Goodwill. I just don't know anyone who wants them, and I no longer have any connections to the local schools. I have taken scrapbook paper, mainly cardstock, to a local boys and girls club. But the embellishments, I take them to Goodwill.

When I did my big purge of scrapbook supplies years ago, I sent all the stickers, buttons, ribbons, and all the embellishment/ephemera stuff to a friend who runs a preschool. I had answered her call for donated wine corks previously so I had an idea she might be interested in this stuff and she was.

I donated everything else to our local hospice thrift store (the same hospice organization that’s now providing services to my mother in my home). The two ladies who sort the craft stuff were delighted! They sold the heck out of it. I even donated my Cricut and all its supplies. I was relieved to have it all gone (it took too much space and had been inducing too much guilt). I’m thrilled that they could profit from it to support such a worthy cause.

Try calling nursing homes. One of them here used to do crafts and cards with the residents. Perhaps a Children’s hospital or a large home many families live in while their childrenvhave treatment.

This art teacher loves donated scrapbook supplies. I purged my stash once 10 years ago and brought a ton of it to school. The kids love making collages with my stuff. My only problem is that I will find a kid using a paper I really love and I'm like "damn, why did I donate that piece?" So now I tend to reclaim some of those papers and put them back in my stash at home. So much for purging.

I love when parents and other teachers donate their craft supplies. We use them up.


I also purged once and put stuff in a family garage sale. I priced it really cheap and it sold like crazy. This was 4 years ago, I think. Though if I knew the people who bought it, I'd go knocking on their doors and ask for my stuff back. I'm terribly at purging.

I donate to a friend who runs an art studio for teens. It is in a more disadvantage area of our town and she is always needing supplies and recycle items (material, paper towel tubes, wire hangers from the dry cleaners, etc). She loves acrylic paints, glue, and scrapbook supplies. The thing that I donated that gets the most use is a wire binding machine. I am constantly purchasing the binding wires.

The grade school teachers here loved getting scrapbook supplies.

I’ve also never had any trouble giving crafting things away on Freecycle (ours is now deceased) and NextDoor, and now that I’ve joined the local Buy Nothing group, I’m guessing it will be the same.

I recently gave two Cricuts and lots of cartridges to a friend. She is a kindergarten teacher and was thrilled to get them. She’ll either keep one machine at home and one at school, or share one with a fellow teacher. They were both barely used but out of date, and I don’t think I could have sold them for much of anything.

I have given and received craft supplies on my local freecycle group. People are very appreciative.