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9100 * Rainy Day Play Date (Kindergarten Basket)	9110 * Backyard BBQ (1st Grade Basket)
Value: $135 Donated by Kindergarten Families	Value: $260 Donated by 1st Grade Families
Is the kid’s cabin fever making you crazy? Rainy days are tough, especially during an El Nino season! Maintain your sanity by keeping the kids busy with creative and fun activities! They can fill the gloomy days creating with Fusion clay, Bendaroos and Paperoni. They can build and paint their own wooden sailboats and try them out in the puddles as soon as the paint dries! They can go retro with Shrinky Dinks, get goofy with Mad Libs, entertain with the magic kit and play a little paddle ball! They can prepare for spring by planting seeds in the pots they just painted and warm up with hot cocoa using the mugs they have also decorated themselves! Connect Four and puzzles will help round out the days. After they clean up and put everything away in the bright green canvas tote, they can document the fun they had for prosperity in their new journals with their giant pencil! You SHOULD never hear ‘’I’m bored’’ again!	Aloha! Invite your namakamaka and ohana (dear friends and family) to your hale for a lu’au! Set a tropical table with festive tableware and be the Big Kahuna with your new BBQ tools and grilling skillet! Everything you need for flaming shish kebobs! A BBQ cookbook will help you make the perfect meal and there is even some teriyaki marinade to keep it easy! Keep your guests cool and their thirst at bay with the smoothie machine, complete with a spout for easier service! Maybe you can even get everyone to hang loose and hula! Mahalo!
9120 * Road Trip (2nd Grade Basket - For Girls)	9121 * Road Trip (2nd Grade Basket - For Boys)
Value: $160 Donated by 2nd Grade Families	Value: $125 Donated by 2nd Grade Families
Keep your girl content on the road with this basket full of activities designed to pass the time! She can open the pink carrying tray (which doubles as a lap desk!) and take out the Littlest Pet Shop coloring book, tap her artistic side with the Doodle All Year book or use the magic marker to reveal images in the Barbie Art Pad. Everyone can flex their brains with the Disney Trivia CD and the Travel Brain Quest Card Set. Enjoy the road views as you play Magnetic Car Bingo. When you’re finished, she can try her hand at electronic Solitaire, Jewel Blast or Casino Island handheld games! Before you know it, you’ll be at your destination!	Taking the family on a summer road trip? Avoid the usual ‘’Are we there yet?’’ with this basket! Boys will have fun things to do to pass the time such as playing Magnetic Car Bingo, Magnetic Hangman or doing a Magnetic Crossword Puzzle! Cater to their competitive side with an electronic game of Connect 4 or Battleship. Want something the whole family can play? Quiz each other with electronic 20 Questions or Travel Brain Quest. When they are done, pack it all up in the blue carrying case and use the attached clipboard to hold their favorite drawings. Or, they can use the case as a lap desk to create shapes using Travel Tangoes! The kids won’t care if they still aren’t there finding activities from the ‘’I Don’t Care If We’re There Yet’’ book! And the best part is a peaceful trip for the parents!
9131 * Family Night at the Movies-1 (3rd GrADE Basket)	9132 * Family Night at the Movies-1 (3rd GrADE Basket)
Value: $135 Donated by 3rd Grade Families & B.J.’s Restaurant	Value: $135 Donated by 3rd Grade Families & Elephant Bar
We all know that a great way to spend family time together is at the movies and this basket has your whole night planned! Enjoy dinner at BJ’s Restaurant in Cupertino then drive over to Cupertino Square AMC theaters for a movie your whole family will enjoy! Candy to take with you is provided as well as money for popcorn. What a great way to spend family time and support Montclaire!	Fun family time is assured with this dinner and a movie basket! Enjoy dinner at the Elephant Bar Restaurant, and then go see a great family movie at the AMC theater! There is candy to take with you and money to buy popcorn for your munching pleasure! Then sit back and enjoy your great quality time with your family!
9140 * Science Wiz Kid (4th Grade Basket)	9150 * Bon Appetit! (5th Grade Basket)
Value: $160 Donated by 4th Grade Families	Value: $179 Donated by 5th Grade Families
Physics, electronics, astronomy, geology and biology can all sound like scary words, but make it fun and kids learn without feeling intimated! They can explore different areas of science with hands on activities using the Smithsonian Mega Science Lab, a solar system model kit, a really cool Snap Circuit 300 set, a portable microscope and more! They can make a volcano, grow crystals, dig for dinosaurs, monitor the weather and create their own ecodome habitat with the Mega Science Lab. They can get a closer look at the microscopic world outside using the portable microscope. They can study the refraction of light with a prism, make their own slides, study physics with a gyroscope and make snow! A da Vinci inventions book and a Science Experiments You Can Eat book offer even more fun ways to learn! The best part, with these step by step kits they will be having so much fun they won’t even realize how much they have learned!	Hone your culinary skills and be the next Julie with guidance from Julia! Create your own gourmet feast following Julia Child’s French Cookbook while using new bake ware and tools! Accompany your delicious meal with fruit served in your new basket! After dinner when you are too full to move, relax while watching Julie and Julia on DVD. Enjoy!
9151 * Kids Can Cook! (5th Grade Basket)	9160 * MEF Klutz Basket for your Little Princess
Value: $200 Donated by 5th Grade Families	Value: $70 Donated by Montclaire Educational Foundation
Every mom’s dream is her kids making a scrumptious dinner for the family! Realize your dreams with this basket! After a lesson at Young Chefs Academy, your own aspiring gourmand can whip up a yummy dinner and dessert for the family using their own tools and serve it up on their lady bug serving tray! Four great kid-friendly cook books offer inspiration and instruction! Now if they would just do the dishes as well...	Your little princess can create an enchanted kingdom in her own room! After she builds and decorates the Mermaid’s Palace, she can design and make her own dream apparel for princesses, witches, fairies and goddesses with the Paper Fashions Fantasy kit! And, since everyone knows how bubbles and flowers can make anywhere seem magical, she can brighten up her room by making paper flowers with the Paper Flowers kit and use the Big Bubbles kit to make bubbles big enough to carry her away!
9161 * MEF Klutz Builder Basket
Value: $65 Donated by Montclaire Educational Foundation
The perfect assortment of klutz books for the aspiring engineer! They can design and make their own Lego Crazy Action Contraptions with one of a kind Lego pieces! The robots they create and bring to life with the Invasion of the Bristlebots kit can swarm around Harry Potter’s Hogwarts Castle they constructed using the card set! You’ll have a quiet house while the kids are happily building away!