You are going to love Oriental if you ever use classroom incentives!
They have all types and shapes of erasers and other things kids like. (As I said before, the only thing I would not order from them were their wooden pencils. The erasers on the pencils seemed like they'd been varnished! They may have improved over the years but I always went through the school bookstore to get pencil rewards. I could get a gross of decorated ones for a reasonable price.
Of course, wrapped candy will probably always be the cheapest incentive in the classroom but with childhood obesity problems, some schools in our area have banned candy treats unless they are sugar free. Sugar free candy is not cheap...plus, it can upset stomachs.
I think (if I'm not mistaken) that in recent years Oriental has even begun taking purchase orders. I know we used purchase orders for the incentive prizes on a funded grant called "Catch Them Being Good" but that covered 6 elementary schools. I can't recall whether I had to make special arrangements with the company or not so that I could have proper documentation for the funded grant.
I just generally paid myself for my classroom. (All you had to do was mention Oriental in the lounge and other teachers would want to order, too, which made shipping more reasonable.)
Good luck on your degree,
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