For years I've saved the Campbells soup / spaghettios labels just KNOWING that some school needed them!  Every once in awhile one of my grandchildren's school would have a drive on asking for the labels, and I was always so happy I'd saved them.  Well it's now been a few years and everybody I know that has kids in school tell me they don't collect them, so they (the labels) just hang in a bag in the garage.

NOW then, I have a very different story -- my little grandson who just started Kindergarted (the Quadruplets' big brother) brought home a paper the second week of school outlining the schools' "drive" for collecting the Campbell's labels and the cereal "boxtops for education" - and all I could say was WHOOHOO!!!!!

      

The labels, like the ones above, when enough are collected, can get "free" stuff for the school, like books, computers, school equipment and playground equipment.

I'm here to tell you that with the schools all over the country having to let personnel go (including nurses and teachers) due to a lack of funding, how quickly will playground equipment be upgraded and maintained?  Or how many new computers will the schools get if they can't even keep teachers onboard?

PLEASE, whether you have children or grandchildren in school or not, please start saving the cereal boxtops (appropriate ones are labeled with "boxtops for education") and Campbell's product labels.  Call the schools in your area to see if they are collecting these labels, and start on a "mission" to help collect them.

IF there is no school in your area collecting them, could you please email me at Sarah@SewWithSarah.com and let me give you my address where you can send the labels for our school.   Jacob has just started Kindergarten, and next year we have 4 more starting (can you believe our little quadruplets will be starting school already!!) -- so I'm really on a mission to collect the labels, etc and help our school!   And, by the way, you don't even have to save the whole label (although it's ok if you do - I can cut off the label) -- all we need are the little labels like you see above.  You could get dozens of them in an envelope and mail them with the cost of a regular stamp.