Extras for Creative Learning Recycling Center

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Official Website: Extras for Creative Learning Recycling Center
Location: 443 Warren Street, Dorchester, MA, 02121 directions
Phone:617-635-8284.
Hours: Distribution hours: Tues./ Wed. 10am-5:30pm or by appt.
Ages: Infants, Toddlers, Kids, Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor: Indoor
Cost: $$ see below

Others to Consider: Kids Place for Fun, Sew Trendy Studio, Mudflat Pottery School, Emerson Umbrella Center For The Arts, Qunicy Art Association presents Children's Art Classes

Extras for Creative Learning has been offering recycled materials and workshops to teachers, parents, and students since 1980. Our mission is to stimulate creative learning and help children awaken their creative potential in education and play through the use of reusable, recycled, and surplus material.

What is Extras for Creative Learning?
E.x.C.L. is a clearinghouse that recovers tons of material from being burned or buried by business or industry and redistributes it for creative educational use. It offers to the learning and creative communities access to resources and materials they may otherwise not be able to afford.
Teachers, childcare providers, service programs, artists, and families are able to obtain supplies for an affordable annual membership fee. Annual membership allows participants to receive free products including:

What we have
• Foam • Yarn • Plastic • Fabric • Mylar • Tile • Leather • Carpet • Paint • Wood • Tubes • Ribbon • Paper • Office Supplies • Art Supplies

ExCL is a resource for
• Teachers, group leaders, parents, and artists who want low-cost or no-cost recycled materials that offer unlimited creative opportunities to nurture learning, exploration, and discovery in classrooms, child care centers, youth groups, and more.

Workshops
ExCL brings area educators and service professionals access to creative materials and arts learning experiences through the efforts of a coordinated organization. Our Creative Classrooms series is a progressive, multi-disciplinary program for teachers at all levels of instruction.

The E.x.C.L. Recycling Center is located on the ground floor of Boston Latin Academy. are Tuesday and Wednesday between 10:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. and at other times by appointment.

To donate material that will help Teachers, Children, Parents, and Artists call our executive director Jodi Schmidt at 617-635-8284.

Cost

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Annual fees for materials, good for 12 months, are $30 or $60 for individuals and $175 for organizations.

Location

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443 Warren Street, Dorchester, MA, 02121 map

www.exclrecycles.org/workshops.html