Bake Sale Recipes!

Another fundraising idea is having a bake sale!

Betty Crocker Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

1 box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® yellow cake mix
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

1) Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick cookie sheets). In large bowl, beat cake mix, butter, vanilla and eggs with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth, or mix with spoon. Stir in nuts and chocolate chips.
2) Onto ungreased cookie sheet, drop dough by slightly less than tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart.
3) Bake cookies 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are set (centers will be soft). Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack.

The Ultimate Brownie Recipe
8- 1 ounce squares of unsweetened chocolate
1 cup butter
5 eggs
3 cups sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
1-1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
2-1/2 cups chopped pecans or walnuts, toasted

1) Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a 9 x 13 pan.
2) Melt chocolate and butter in a saucepan over low heat; set aside. In a mixer, beat eggs, sugar and vanilla at high speed for 10 minutes**. Blend in chocolate mixture, flour and salt until just mixed. Stir in the nuts. Pour into prepared pan.
3) Bake for 35-40 minutes. (Don't overbake.) Cool and frost if desired, but that is not necessary.

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Clothing Drive Prices!

So, let's say on the first day of your clothing drive this is what you receive:

Clothing------Prices

5 shirts---------$4 each

3 pairs of jeans------$5 each

2 pairs of sweatpants--$3 each

How much money did you make on the first day of your clothing drive?

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Clothing Drive!

Donating your hair is not the only way to support the Locks of Love Foundation. Donating money to pay for the labor that is being put into making the wigs is just as important.

You could hold a clothing drive asking everyone to donate all their old clothes. You can bring all the clothes you collect to a place like Plato's Closet or the Goodwill and receive money in return for the clothes. That money can then be donated to the Locks of Love cause.

Let's say you hold a clothing drive from Saturday, May tenth of this year until Saturday, May seventeenth. Can you write out this whole week of dates in month/day/year form?

What if you hold a clothing drive from August second to August ninth? Can you write out the dates now?

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Shipping Hair from Around the Country!

Now that you found out how far Burlington, VT is from West Palm Beach, FL; can you find out how far these cities are:

New York City, New York

Boston, Massachusetts

Los Angeles, California

San Francisco, California

Austin, Texas

Nashville, Tennessee

Burmingham, Alabama

Juneau, Alaska

Orlando, Florida

Springfield, Illinois

Which city is the closest to West Palm Beach, FL? Which is the farthest away?

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Shipping Hair to Locks of Love!

Once the hair is cut and you have a cool new hair-do, it is ready to ship! The Locks of Love headquarters is located at:
234 Southern Blvd
West Palm Beach, FL 33405


If you are from Burlington, VT, how far would the hair have to be shipped?

• You can use a map that has a distance key on it so you can measure the distance with a ruler.

OR

If you have access to the internet, Google Maps is another great resource!

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Weighing Hair!

Once a ponytail is cut it can be weighed on a scale.

• If Jessica's hair weighs 13 ounces and Heather's hair weighs 9 ounces, how many more ounces does Jessica's hair weigh?


• If Jordan's hair weighs 14 ounces and Casey's hair weighs 10 ounces, how much does their hair weigh in all?

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Making a Wig!

Before the hair is cut it must be dry and tied into a ponytail at the nape of the neck. It takes 6-10 ponytails (at 10 inches long or more) to make one hair piece.

• If it takes 7 ponytails to make one wig and 8 ponytails to make another wig, how many ponytails are used in all?
  
  
• If it takes 10 hours to make one wig, how many hours will it take to make 6 wigs?

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