Art Box Program

The Art Box Program.

The boxes are clear plastic shoe boxes filled with all sorts of arts and crafts supplies and goodies.

Click on image for larger view of Art Box.

Special thanks to Bill Rhyne and Harris Teeter

for sponsoring over one hundred Art Boxes...

We purchase empty boxes from a distributor. Items are then added along with some information on our mission... The items include:

A Brand New Art Box Kids CD
An Accompanying Coloring Book
Modeling clay
Box of crayons
Watercolors ~ and brush
Washable markers
Finger paint
Foam shapes
Coloring Pages
Glue stick
Post-it note pad
White drawing paper
Colored construction paper
2 foam stamps

July, 2002... Test and prototype boxes were delivered to several hospitals, children's homes, schools serving kids with Downs Syndrome and Autism, Fire and Police departments, and agencies working with the homeless and at-risk children. We received feedback regarding safety, age-appropriateness, and effectiveness from councilors, doctors and nurses, and other professionals.

Boxes were initially delivered to hospitals, homeless shelters, abuse centers and schools working specifically with children with disabilities in Matthews, NC... Cleveland, OH... Chicago, IL... Key West, FL... and Charlotte, NC.

Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive!

We now have over 4,000 art boxes in 18 states.

We seek grants and individual funding for the Art Box Program. Over 85 percent of all contributions go toward the Art Box Program. There are no paid employees. All packing and deliveries are done by volunteers. Overhead is kept to a bare minimum. The organization only pays for this web site, utilities, and printing needs.