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Giveaway: Avery Dennison School Supplies & Box Tops for Education

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Now that school’s back in session, the focus has shifted to helping our schools raise money to afford new supplies, equipment and programs to provide better education for our kids! This year, Avery Dennison has partnered with Box Tops for Education, and Avery school supplies now include coupons to clip and turn in to your school to be redeemed for cash.

Avery Dennison sent me this great gift basket of products so I can share my thoughts on them, plus I get to give the same basket away to one of my readers! I wish I could say I’m an organized person, but I subscribe more to the organized chaos theory. However, products like these inspire me to file things away in a more orderly manner. I enjoyed sorting and filing and labeling my papers with Avery’s easy-to-use systems. Now if only I could keep them that way!

And who could resist the handy tote it was all packaged in? I have baskets and totes like these all over the house to corral all of our stuff. We have far more “stuff” than we actually need, but that’s a project best tackled when I give these crutches the boot. Anyone want to help?

One lucky Deal Seeking Mom reader will win a back-to-school prize package (worth over $50!) full of Avery Dennison school and office supplies, including: Hi-Liters, labels, GlueStics, binders, dividers, sheet protectors, Marks-a-Lot permanent markers, and t-shirt transfers!

To enter, share your favorite way to get involved at your kids’ schools! Do you volunteer in the classroom? Coordinate the bookfair? Help with fundraising?

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Every reader has four methods available to enter this contest. Choose one each of any combination of method one, two, three, or four for up to a total of 4 entries!!!

Methods of entry:

1. Leave a comment. Tell me how you are involved at your kids’ schools. What is your favorite volunteer activity?

2. Add Deal Seeking Mom to your blogroll or add my badge to your sidebar. Make sure to come back and leave the link to your site in a separate comment!

3. Join the new Deal Seeking Mom Forums to chat about your great finds, special coupon codes, and chances to win exclusive giveaways. Leave a separate comment letting me know you’ve joined or that you’re already a registered user!

4. Subscribe to my feed via RSS or email. You must confirm your email subscription for it to be a valid entry! Leave a separate comment letting me know you have done so. If you’re already a subscriber, simply leave a separate comment letting me know you’re already subscribed. Lovin’ my subscribers! You guys make this all possible.

Prize:
(1) Avery Dennison School and Office Supply Package, as described above

This giveaway ends at 11:59 p.m. EST on 9/22. I’ll use Random.org to select the winning comment. Winner will be notified by email on and listed on my Giveaway Winners page. Good luck!

While you’re in a contest entering mood, don’t forget to check out the Giveaway Gathering for a variety of contests being hosted on Deal Seeking Mom readers’ blogs!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Jamie

    I volunteer to help the teachers and with three kids in three different grades and two different buildings, it keeps me busy. I figure that it is better to use my time for copying, filing and assessing the kids’ skills so that it frees the teacher’s time to teach. I also like to buy and donate things for the classrooms.

  5. Charlene

    I always enjoy throwing holiday parties with age friendly crafts instead of candy treats. Foam ball spiders with pipe cleaner legs hanging from fishing lines on dowel rods has to be my favorite little kid Halloween craft.

  6. Yomiyomes

    My son just started school in a new community and they are very low on funds. I would love to receive that basket and have them auction it off to get funds for the school!

  7. Karen

    Oooh, school supplies (and art supplies) just give me goose bumps!
    I love them!

    I work part-time during the hours that my kids are in school, so I don’t go in on a regular basis during the week. My mom, a retired teacher, goes once a week to help in the classroom. I’m involved in other school projects, including coordinating Box Tops, painting murals and other school activities as needed.

    I follow on FB, but I’ll make sure I’m signed up for the others. I don’t remember :)

  9. Jenny

    I am on the preschool board and I help with the big fundraising project in February. I also help with the holiday parties throughout the year.

  11. Joyce Callahan

    I work full-time, so am not able to volunteer as much as I’d like, but I do serve meals to the HS football team before the games, and help at the book fairs in the evenings. I also donate lots of baked goods for various activities at school, from family dinner night to teacher appreciation week.

  18. Donna

    With my son in Kindergarten, I have the joy of being a room mom. I help out 2 days a week. I help the children with crafts and “clean up time”. Ive also been nominated by other moms to oversee the rooms box top collection. The teacher and I have tried to make it fun for the children so that they will remember to bring them in. So far we are off to a great start. My son is my only child and somewhat of a mommys boy and loves the fact that I am in his room with him. For now he is proud of “his mommy” and introduces me to everyone. I enjoy being able to be a part of his classroom and the important part of his life.

  19. Terriann

    I volunteer at my daughters school as much as possible. Even though I work full time, I’m able to volunteer during my lunch hour to serve an organic lunch to the children. I drive on as many field trips as possible and this year have organized a Sees Candy fundraiser. This will enable our PTG to buy needed supplies for the school, etc.

  24. Jenifer

    As a homeschool mom, I am the teacher. I also volunteer in a co-op class once a week that our children take part in together.

  26. Kristen

    I’m new to volunteering in schools (my oldest is off to kindergarten this year) but I’m hoping to help out in the school library. We don’t have the budget to support a school librarian :( so parent volunteers reshelve the books, etc.

  29. Anel Muterspaugh

    I am a subscriber and I help with the secret Santa project for holiday parties. We collect small toys, books, stickers, crayons, and so on so that each child receives a goody bag to bring home from Santa. Also I help out the family dinners where families come for dinner and in return they donate a gently used book that we donate to a local charity.