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 Annual Christmas in July Toy Drive for Children's Memorial Hospital

 

Helping children be children while they are in the hospital. You can help us put a smile on the faces of all the children who have cancer. Donate brand new unwrapped toys. Our toy drive collection is every year in July, if you have toys you would like to donate at any time of the year, please email info@ryanlf.org or send to

Ryan Lamantia Foundation

4525 Heron Drive

Lake in the Hills, IL 60156

 

 

  

Items sure to make a kid smile 

Card game decks - Uno, others
Handheld games - 20Q, Yahtzee, others
Jewelry or bead kits
Matchbox cars
Art or craft kits for kids
Cartoon figures - Spongebob, Spiderman, My Little Pony
Bionicles, small Lego kits
Disposable Cameras
Small Etch-a-Sketch or DoodlePro

Hand held games

Infants (0–18 Months)

Baby blocks
Books — cardboard or vinyl
Duplo blocks
Music boxes, musical radios
Push toys, carts
Rattles
Shape sorters
Stacking rings, cubes, cups
Teething rings
Toy telephones

Toddler/Preschool (18 months–4 years)

Blocks 
Dressing dolls 
Farm animals
Infant dolls 
Linking toys
Little People sets
Musical toys, instruments
Peaceful Aquariums
Play food and kitchen toys
Play medical kit
Pop-up books
Puzzles of 10 pieces or fewer

See'n'Say

 

School age (5–12 years)

 
Beads and jewelry making kits
Board games
Bubble machines
Cars and trucks
Coloring books — non-violent
Crayons, colored pencils
Dinosaurs Geo Safari and game packs
Handicraft kits
Handheld games
Modeling clay (air-drying)
Nerf Ball games
Paints (tempera and watercolor)
Play-doh Fun Factories
Playing card games
Puzzles, 25–100 pieces
Science/nature model/craft kits
Stickers

Adolescents (13 years and up)

Movies/Music/Video Games

Gift cards from iTunes

Latest releases of DVD movies with G or PG13 ratings, nonviolent. Movies for teens are especially needed.

Nonviolent video games for Playstation 2, X Box, X Box 360 and GameCube.

Items needed for the playrooms

Art Kits
Glitter pens
Craft sticks
Pipe cleaners
Glitter/sequins
Self-drying art clay
Stickers
Watercolors
Play-doh
Markers
Paints/brushes
Safety scissors
Beads