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Toy Program Wish List
Thank you so much for considering our Wish List. We truly appreciate your generosity. We appreciate financial donations of any size, because they allow us to offer enriching activities for our patients and families.
To make a financial donation, make checks payable to Children's Hospital Foundation (designate "Child Life Department Toy Fund") and send to:
Children's Hospital Foundation
P.O. Box 50020 / S-200
Seattle, WA 98145-5020
Or you can use our secure donation form to make a direct donation to our Toy Program. Simply chose Toys in the "Please Direct My Donation" box.
If you would like to donate new toys directly to the hospital, please bring them to our Volunteer Office at the Main Giraffe entrance at:
Children's Hospital
4800 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
Monday - Thursday: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
You may also contact the Volunteer Office with questions at: (206) 987-2155 or e-mail us.
Restrictions
For safety and infection control reasons, please donate only new items that are washable, nontoxic, and not easily broken. We are unable to accept used toys or toys that represent violence. Please do not send large metal trucks or toys. Please do not wrap donations.
Greatest Needs
- Gift Certificates
- Disposable cameras
- Scrapbook supplies
- Prepaid phone cards
- Card games
- Magic tricks
- Disney or other character toys
- Small Lego sets
- Nail polish
- Trading cards
- Coloring books
- Arts and crafts kits
Other Priority Needs
- Spanish, Vietnamese, and Russian videos, books, and music for all ages
- Cassette tapes (lullabies, easy listening, all ages)
- SNAP models for older school age to teenage
- Tickets to local entertainment events
- Fisher Price Tuff-Stuff tape players
Infants and Toddlers
- Mirrors
- Teething toys
- Washable rattles
- Plastic chain links
- Board books
- Sorting/stacking toys
- Washable squeeze toys
- Beginning cars and trucks
- Light, sound, and pop-up toys
- Busy boxes
* Please, no gyms
Pre-School / School Age
- Brio train cars only (no track)
- Smaller sturdy plastic cars and trucks
- Small inside balls and/or Koosh balls
- Small magic wands
- Animals and/or dinosaurs
- Nerf games
- Small Legos
- Tech-niks
- K-nexs
- Black velvet pictures to color
Teens
- Discman and CDs
- PG and PG-13 videos
- X-Box, Game Cube and Play Station 2 games
- Journal supplies
- Quality headphones
- Pre-paid phone cards
- Electronic hand-held games
- Pro sports team caps and t-shirts
- Bath soaps, gels, and lotion gift sets
- Fingernail polish and manicure supplies
- Gift certificates (music stores, restaurants, specialty stores, etc.)
Arts & Crafts
- Watercolor painting kits
- Oil pastels
- Beeswax sheets for candle making (all colors)
- Black velvet pictures to color
- Glitter pens/glitter glue
- Fabric markers
- Scene/story stickers
- Doodle art posters
- Fimo/Sculpy clay
- Beading supplies
- Coloring books
- Sketch books
- Puffy paints
- Play Doh
Self-Contained Craft Kits
Call (206) 987-4133 for information and directions. Some kit ideas include beadie babies, friendship or bead bracelets, hemp jewelry, paper projects, sand art, and stamping.
Games
- Playing cards
- UNO
- Clue
- Jenga
- Taboo
- Trouble
- Mancala
- Battleship
- Guess Who
- Catch Phrase
- Connect Four
Crayola
- Crayons
- Markers
- Other Crayola brand art materials