Now Open!

Tuesday 10 - 2
Thursday 12 - 5
Friday 12 - 5
Saturday 12 - 4

388 Pine St, Burlington VT

An Arts & Craft Supply Thrift Store and Community Art Space

UNLEASH CREATIVITY,
EMBRACE SUSTAINABILITY

The Makery is a place where art supplies find new life, and creativity flourishes through classes and camps.

Now Accepting Donations

How to make a donation and get store credit:

  1. Email [email protected] to set up a drop off time (once we're open and have regular hours, you can simply come in anytime we're open!)

  2. Bring your items and leave them with us. We will go through them within 2 business days.

  3. We will email you your store credit amount and let you know if there are any items that we can't accept. You will have 2 business days to accept your store credit offer and let us know if you want to pick up remaining items or have us donate them

  4. Your store credit goes into your customer account and you can use it anytime on merchandise or classes! If you don't want your store credit or are donating on behalf of someone else, your store credit amount gets added to our scholarship fund to help make our kids art classes and open crafting times accessible for all!

Donation Guidelines

All donated items must be free of smells and signs of moths or other pests.
We accept supplies for a wide array of crafts, including but not limited to:

Arts & Crafts

  • Art paints (no house paint or spray paint)

  • Paintbrushes

  • Kids’ craft items and kits (pompoms, foam, googly eyes)

  • Pens, pencils, markers, pastels

  • Canvases, sketchbooks, paper pads

  • Clay, sculpture tools

  • Rubber stamps

  • Glue guns and sticks

  • Easels, drawing boards

  • Poster board, sign board, foam core

  • Model building supplies

Fabric & Yarn

  • Fabric

  • Yarn

  • Knitting needles, crochet hooks and other tools

  • Needlework and quilting tools and notions

  • Working sewing machines

  • Buttons

  • Elastic, velcro, hem tape

  • Needlework kits

  • Sewing patterns, uncut

  • Knitting and needlework patterns books or magazines

  • Leather pieces

  • Ribbon, trim, rickrack, bias tape

  • Wool spinning and felting supplies

Paper Goods

  • Stationery, envelopes, greeting cards

  • Scrapbooking materials

  • Office paper, unused

  • Construction and art paper

School & Office

  • Office supplies (file folders, organizers, staplers)

  • School supplies (crayons, notebooks, scissors, folders)

  • Rubber bands

  • Paper clips, staples, binder clips

  • Labels and stickers

  • Report covers, page protectors

  • Sticky notes, notepads

  • Tape, glue

Jewelry

  • Beads

  • Wire

  • Jewelry making tools and supplies

Floral & Natural

  • Artificial flowers and greenery

  • Floral tape, foam, wire

  • Feathers

Other Items

  • Spools and cones

  • Cardboard mailing tubes

  • Holiday decorations

  • Gift wrap and bags

388 Pine St, Burlington VT

Tuesday 10 - 2
Thursday 12 - 5
Friday 12 - 5
Saturday 12 - 4