Great list Heather!

Here are a couple more "basics" in my Sunday School classroom:

1. A collection of baskets, boxes, and containers for use with games and art supplies
2. Table covers: A stack of newspaper or roll of butcher paper and a couple of thin plastic tablecloths for messy projects
3. Posterboard and cardstock
4. Swaths of cloth for quick costumes
5. Extension cord
6. Project clips to quickly hang/dry/display things
7. Cleanup supplies for both the table and hands
8. *A Way to Show Media*
   If you're like me, no matter what age or medium you're teaching in, the ability to show media on a large screen is a "must-have." Invariably, I have a short video clip to show, an illustration, an image of a Bible place, a map, or photos/video of the kids taken with my cellphone. That means having both a smartTV and a cord (or Airplay that works) to connect my cellphone to it -- are very handy indeed.
   
   

Great lists! My additions to "must haves" for a well-equipped classroom:

• tacky stuff to stick posters and artworks to the wall
• paperclips and fishing line to hang things from the grid ceiling (lightweight things like stars with names on for the Abraham/number the stars lesson)
• a whiteboard and dry erase markers
• magnets - the whiteboard will take magnets and I copy story figures to tell the story and use the whiteboard (things don't fall off like they do with a flannelboard, and it is easier to color paper figures than to cut (or color) flannel story figures). I also use magnets to hang up memory verses and things like that.

Oh yes! I'm enjoying the lists above. I forgot jump ropes, pool noodles, and laundry baskets for games as well as mixing bowls from the dollar store for a variety of activities.