Resources for RI Education

This place is fantastic! This places turns somebody’s junk into another person’s treasure (albeit cheap treasure). You need to come with a membership card, but for a low annual fee which you can share with others, you can get nice items for any craft, art, or educational project you may have. The goods rotate, but items range from school supplies, books, fabric, shoelaces, carpet samples, etc. Many of the stuff are forty cents a pound. Great place to browse to get some bargains even if you are not involved in education!

RRIE, aka «The Recycle Center» is BRILLIANT.
If you enjoy using weird things creatively, you will think you died and woke up in junk heaven.
This is a non-​profit org that diverts manufacturing waste materials (amazing stuff that would otherwise be thrown away) for educational use.
Do not be fooled by the term «waste» — I don’t even know where to begin with the awesomeness that can be found here across the warehouse floor–
Cardboard sheets, rolls of gorgeous, colorful fabric, paper and string, odd foam shapes from packaging, golden shampoo caps, Mardi Gras beads, jewelry boxes, prize ribbons. They keep the goods updated on their site:
(and check for hours — they’re limited)
Also leftover office supply products from companies like Avery — all the labels, binders and dividers you could ever want for.
If you are involved in any kind of school or non-​profit work — get thee to RRIE! That would be the catch for membership. You pay a yearly membership fee and when you go, you load up your boxes of goods on a giant scale @ $ 0.40/lb (I fill my car back-​to-​front every time for ~$ 20). To try it out, a day pass is just $ 10.
Support RRIE and have fun! — they are amazing and I am constantly shocked by how they keep all this crap so beautifully organized.