*The Fifth-Grade Service Project: Help Us Support Our Troops!*
Operation Gratitude:The Wish List* Items need to be delivered to school by Friday, April 13th.
Operation Gratitude:Wish List (Please provide new items only)
Socks (preferably black, brown, green, tan; not white)
iPods DVDs CDs Video Games
Computer Flash Drives Headsets (earpiece and microphone) Webcams
Energy Bars Beef Jerky Healthy Snacks Commercially sealed Lip Balm toothpaste
Toothbrushes roll-on deodorant
individually packaged razors
Travel-Size Board Games Handheld electronic games
Mini-Battery-operated Fans
Hand and
Foot Warmers
Single Serving Boxes of Cold Cereal Candy
Nuts
Individual Packets of Hot Cereal
Commercially wrapped individual packets of Trail Mix
Energy Bars Sunflower Seeds Ready To Eat Tuna or Chicken Salad kits
Boxes of Girl Scout Cookies Packets of Powdered Hot or Cold Beverages
Individual packets of moist towelettes
Travel Size containers of Foot Powder
Screen Printed T-Shirts Baseball Style Caps Gloves iPods PDAs Holiday and
General
Occasion Greeting Cards (blank)
Unsealed personal cards and letters
Used Cell Phones Video Games and Systems Ink-jet Cartridges
*PLEASE NOTE: EXCEPT AS STATED IN THE ABOVE LIST, WE ONLY ACCEPT TOILETRIES FROM
MANUFACTURERS*
Here’s a great craft project for school, scout, social and community groups: Knit/Crochet
Scarves!!
Feel free to use your own pattern or contact us at: OpGrat@gmail.com
We want to include a Knit/Crochet scarf in every Holiday Care Package (at least 60,000!)–Please
spread
the word about this project. Encourage knitting groups, blogs and websites to support us!
Make Bandana Cool-Ties for our troops!
Follow this link for patterns and directions: Cool-Ties
Follow
this link to buy the water-absorbing polymer granules needed for your Cool Ties: Materials
Neck Warmers/”Gators” Directions: Please see: Gatos Please use tan, brown, desert camouflage or
other
neutral colored cotton or material.
**Wounded Warrior Care Package Program:
Operation Gratitude works with representatives at Military hospitals and Wounded Warrior Transition
Units to provide care packages for Wounded Warriors/Veterans to let them know they are never
forgotten.
Recognizing that Warriors when first injured are most concerned with the well-being of their
comrades still on the frontlines, we also offer a service to send care packages to the wounded’s
buddies.
Not only does this let the downrange troops know their wounded comrade is thinking about them,
but
most importantly, it helps the wounded feel they are still contributing to the mission and supporting
their comrades.
If you would like to send letters specifically for our wounded heroes, please send them in a
separate envelope marked “Wounded Warriors.”
Special Items needed for Wounded Warrior Care Packages:
Gift Cards to chain stores such as supermarkets, drugstores, Walmart or Target
Healthy Snacks
Entertainment Items (DVDs, CDs, new magazines and paperback books)
Hygiene Products
iPods DVD Players
Crossword and Sudoku Books
Jigsaw Puzzles (in small boxes)
Model kits (planes, cars, ships, etc)