Keep a collection box in you class. Collect old clothes, books, toys, pots and pans, etc. from you home. Whenever the box is full, teacher can make sure it reaches the needy.
Organize a stall on parents’ day in which you can sell the things you don’t need anymore at very heap rates. The money collected from the stall can be sent to institutions like CRY and Help age India.
They would appreciate this effort. Offer to spend time at these places. They could do with your help from Shramadaan.
In the festival season you send greetings cards to your friends and relatives. This season is sure to buy cards made by these two organizations.
Visit a museum to see how collections are sorted out and recorded. If you are starting a collection, keep a little note book to record the names and any other interesting information about your collection.
Go for a walk where there are lots of trees. Look for twigs lying around. Some of the twigs might remind you of things such as a snake, a man, a boat and many more. Bring them home. Wash them and dry them. There! You have started a new collection! Later on you could build it up into a nice scene.
Find out what hobbies your classmates have. Get into your groups. Make an interesting chart with the names of your friends and their collection hobbies.
• Thota Sinivasa Rao of Markapur, Andhra Pradesh, has a collection of 2,739(1,419 in color and 1,320 black and white) songbooks of Telugu films.
• Nandi sur, 13, now lives in the US however; her links with her country remain strong. She has specialized in collecting stamps exclusively on Mahatma Gandhi and has so for collected 171 unduplicated stamps. Gandhi stamp not just from India but from 71 other countries.
• Vijay B Agarwal has a collection of 175pencuil sharpeners of different shapes and sizes. There are no duplicates.
• Cartoonist Ranganath has nearly 2,000 autographed cartoons of world leaders like Nasser, Nehru, Tito, Sukarno, Thatcher, Arafat; cosmonauts and astronauts like Neil Armstrong, Yuri Gagarin; musical geniuses like Yehudi Menuhin and Zubin Mehatha; actors and sportsmen like Marlon Brando, Muhammad Ali and Clive Lloyd, to name few.
• Dr A Koteswar Rao of Jind, Haryana has a collection of 1841 ballpoints pens without duplicates. The longest pen measures 7.5 cm, the thickest 21 mm and thinnest 6mm.