Backpack Buddies

Donations due by November 4 – 2nd and 3rd Grade Donation Collection

How can you help: By making a donation from the food list during your child’s assigned month. Please see the list below for suggested donations by homeroom; however, ANY donation is welcome and appreciated. Please only send complete packages, rather than individually wrapped single items. There will be a bin in your child’s pod area labeled Backpack Buddies.  

DONATIONS DUE BY Friday, November 4

BUCHLER & DASH  – Breakfast (cereal, pancake mix, syrup, juice, granola bars, fruit and cereal bars, jelly/jam)

KUEGLER & WEINSTEIN – Lunch Items (canned tuna, chicken, fish, soups, canned pasta meals, ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise)

VAN HORN & MOORE – Dinner Items (Hamburger/Tuna Helper, pasta and pasta sauce, canned chili/beef stew)

BENEDICT & HTWAR– Snack Items (fruit cups/applesauce, microwave popcorn, Jello, crackers, goldfish, non-refrigerated pudding cups)

LOOMIS, PRYSESKI & WILLIAMS – Side dish items (rice, side dish and meal kits, shelf stable milk, soups, cookies, canned pasta meals)

ALL FOOD SHOULD BE NON-PERISHABLE AND NUT FREE

Backpack Buddies is a program for children in the Head Start Program who are at or below the poverty line, who are given bags of food to provide their families with nutritional sustenance for the time they are not at school. We are asking our Waverly families to help by donating non-perishable food items. Each class is asked to donate specific types of food – breakfast items, lunch items, sides, snacks, etc. – which is outlined in the flyers that have gone home with your students.While we’ve assigned specific item types per class, please note that ANY donations are welcome, BUT please do not send in any opened packages (individual granola bars, single fruit cups, cereal bags without packaging, etc.).