Other people made up bags of sweets, bottled beads, boxed jewellery, sorted hats into age categories, and covered shoe boxes in wrapping paper.
Why? We were making fillers for shoeboxes.
This coming week we will start processing shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child's Shoebox Appeal. Although people are encouraged to fill their shoe boxes we do come across a lot of boxes that are maybe only half full. Other times we find items that we have to take out of a box and this leaves a gap. This is when we need our supply of fillers.
The rolls of paper might be used in a box where someone has included colouring pencils but has not put in any paper.
These are great re-cycling opportunities! A lot of the stuff we use for fillers comes from the Watford Arts Recycling Project (WRAP). For example you can take an empty video box - remove the sleeve and replace with a piece of wrapping paper - fill with pencils and pens and you have a pencil case. Or a small plastic bottle with screw top lid: fill with a range of coloured beads, add some thread or string and you have necklace making kit.
