Toys Wish List
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Small gifts and prizes are always needed – keeping gifts portable helps us share them with more children in more areas of the hospital. We also list suggestions by age for infants, toddler/preschool, school age and teens.
Many of our children with special needs and disabilities require specialized, adaptive toys. If you’d like to help out, we would gladly accept a gift card from Enabling Devices. Your gift card will then be used by a Child Life specialist to purchase an adaptive toy(s) for use during therapy with patients with disabilities.
Keeping kids safe is core to our mission. Before you give, please check with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Also, please remember that we can only accept new, unwrapped gifts.
How do We Use Gifts?
We use your generous donations of gifts in multiple ways, all year round. For example, children are often given the chance to pick a prize after a particularly hard day or on a special occasion, such as finishing a round of treatment. In addition, our closed-circuit, interactive television station Skylight TV hosts several in-house television game shows each week, following the philosophy that "everybody's a winner," creating a daily demand for small prizes.
Suggested Small Gifts & Prizes
- Small Lego kits for all ages, Bionicles
- Gift cards to iTunes, Apple store, Amazon.com
- Matchbox cars /Hotwheels
- Small figurines for boys - Spongebob, Spiderman, Superman, Toy Story
- Small figurines for girls - My Little Pony, Polly Pocket, The Littliest Pet Shop
- Card game decks - Uno, others
- Handheld games - 20Q, Yahtzee, others
- Small packs of Crayons (8-12pc)
- Small art or craft kits for all ages
- Small Fisher Price DoodlePro
Arts & Crafts Supplies
- Crayons, "Twistable"crayons and pencils by Crayola, Markers
- Play-doh
- Glitter pens
- Glue – all purpose, tacky, glue sticks
- Googly eyes
- Paints – watercolor and tempera
- Paint brushes
- Craft sticks
- Pipe cleaners
- Glitter/sequins
- Self-drying art clay
- Model Magic
- Safety scissors
- Beads
Toy Suggestions By Age
Infants (0–18 Months)
Did you know that most of our patients are under the age of 3?
- Rattles (wrist, O'Ball balls and rattles)
- Teething rings
- WubbaNub Pacifier Toy
- Music boxes, musical radios
- Peaceful Aquariums
- Cloud B-sound Machine Animals
- Musical floor mats
- Books – cardboard of vinyl – English/Spanish
- Shape sorters, Stacking Rings, Cubes, Cups
- Taggie Blankets and Toys
- Baby blocks
- Interlocking Foam Floor Tiles/Mats
Toddler/Preschool (18 months–4 years)
Did you know that most of our patients are under the age of 3?
- Cause-effect toys (make sound, light up or move with child's action)
- One piece infant/toddler toys (musical, light up, sound)
- Play medical kits
- Peaceful Aquariums
- Books – English/Spanish, pop-up books, recordable books
- See'n'Say
- Musical toys, instruments
- Musical floor mats
- Small “Little People” sets
- Thomas wooden railway trains
- Play food and kitchen toys, tea sets
- Dolls — all ethnicities, both genders
- Plastic animals (farm, wild etc.)
- Chunky puzzles of 10 pieces or fewer
- Blocks - Duplos, Megablocks
- Linking toys
- Bubble tumblers (non-spill)
- Dress Up kits
- Stuffed Animals (brand new and recently purchased)
School Age (5–12 years)
- Lego kits
- Activity books (Where's Waldo, Eye Spy)
- Books – English/Spanish/Braille
- Art/craft kits
- Beads and jewelry making kits
- Popular board games (headbandz, sorry, chutes and ladders, apples to apples etc.)
- Coloring books — non-violent
- Crayons, “Twistable”crayons and pencils by Crayola
- Play-Doh and modeling clay (air-drying)
- Puzzles, 25–100 pieces
Adolescents (13 years & up)
- Gift cards: iTunes, Apple store, Amazon.com, Target, Best Buy
- Earbud headphones
- Books – English/Spanish/Braille
- Magazines (teen, fashion, sports)
- Lego kits – Bionicles
- Model kits – challenging
- Science project kits
- Nerf basketball hoops and Nerf balls
- Drawing Journals
- Artist Quality Art Materials
- Fun Duck Tape
- Picture frames
- iPods, iPads
- Sports paraphernalia — t-shirts, hats
- Stationary, diaries, notepads, calendars
- Stress squeeze balls
- Make-up starter kits
- Nail polish
- Toiletries (nail care, brushes, combs, pins)
- Back packs, tote bags, coin purses
- Key chains
Movies, Musice & Video Games
- Portable DVD players
- Latest releases of DVD movies with G or PG13 ratings, nonviolent; movies for teens
- Nonviolent video games for Playstation3, X Box, X Box 360 Kinnect
School Services
- Apple gift cards for app purchases
- Multiplication flash cards
- Sturdy 2 pocket folders
- Dry erase crayons
- 8 packs of regular or chunky crayons
- Pencil cases (no boxes, please)
- Erasers
- Pencil sharpeners
- Highlighters
- “Fancy” pencils
- Small glue sticks
- Early skills workbooks (pre-k through grade 2)
- Calculators
A Note About Stuffed Animals, Blankets & Other Plush Items
- We welcome donations of newly purchased stuffed animals with tags
- Unfortunately, we can't accept stuffed animals that have been on display or stored in a way that may have gathered dust and allergens
- We also welcome hand-made blankets - fleece "no-sew" varieties are popular
- Please gently launder your blankets after they are made before delivering
- To prevent transmission of household allergens and other contaminants, please transport and deliver fabric items in plastic trash bags that are tied at the top