Just a little update...
I have contacted the Development Department of the Children's Foundation and they provide me with a list of things the children are wishing for this year. If you can't donate, go to your local toy store and buy something small for them to bring a smile to their faces this Christmas.
I would greatly appreciate it.
Child Life Department
Wish List Items - 2005
Infants and Toddlers
*Infant Toys
*Baby crib ¡§Aquariums¡¨, small baby rattles, infant musical wind-up toys, mobiles, especially with wind-up, not battery operated, music boxes. Any wind up music box.
*Baby board books with photos of real babies
*Reclining strollers with decent wheels(for 3M, 2 for 2F)
Toys and Games
*Play food
*Thomas the Train tracks and train set
*Fisher Price Toys, such as Rescue Figures, small ¡§Family¡¨ dolls with movable parts, and household furniture, cash register, Medical Kits (4 kits) etc.
*Set of theme Lego (Fire, Rescue, etc.)
15-20 piece wooden puzzles and 30-100 Piece thick cardboard puzzles (age 3-4)
*Washable 6-10¡¨ baby dolls, with clothes and blankets
*Washable small vinyl play mats (3-4¡¦) for use at bedsides
*Large cardboard "brick" patterned blocks
*Board games - assorted - for all age groups. Guess Who, Connect Four, *Trouble, Snakes and Ladders, a nice chess game, Yahtzee
*Mind games like Rubiks¡¦ cube, or other hand manipulated mind games
*Large rubber balls for the playroom, multicoloured
*Child Size Pool Table, pool cues with ends on them and pool balls (S Ctyd)
*Bop-it, any version, Etch-a sketch, nice quality magnet set
*New Fisher Price play house for S Ctyd
*Laminated posters of fish, etc (real looking underwater themes)
*Static window stickees: underwater theme
*"Eye Spy" books
*Rescue Hero action toys
*Sand table with permanent cover
*Themed lego (fire rescue)
*Brio Train Set
Youth
*Lava lamp or lamp with movement and lights
*CD's - pop, rock, country, compilation albums
*Acrylic paints (general, ceramic, terra cotta and fabric)
*Paintable items like picture frames, T-shirts, terra cotta pots and boxes, *canvases
*Magazine subscriptions (Teen People, Snowboarding, Tony Hawke)
*Beauty Products - nail polish, hair accessories, bath products, travel size shampoo, conditioner and creams etc
*Supplies to make bath products (soap making kits, lip gloss kits available at Michaels and Cranberry Lane in Coquitlam)
*Blank journals
*Board games - Risk, Cranium, and mind games, etc.
*Video camera (for video diarying)
*Beading supplies including hemp, clasps, crimp beads and tools.
*Books on tape
*Gift certificates for Blockbuster or Rogers movie rentals for our movie nights
*Small denomination gift certificates to Future Shop etc. for gifts
*Big craft projects that take time to build
*Collapsible basketball hoop and ball
Electronics
*Electronic hand-held games (ie Jeopardy, Battleship, Yahtzee, etc.)
*Sony Discmans
*Game Boy Advance systems and games
*Portable CD player¡V with tape cassette
*Children's Fisher Price tape recorders
*Adolescent Videos (lots!) and Children¡¦s Videos (G or PG ratings) - lots! ¡V can be both VHS or DVD
*Sony Playstation 2 and games
*X-Boxes and games
*Game Cubes and games
*Digital cameras and small HP printing stations for each unit (10)
*Talking books (tapes of books, esp. Harry Potter)
*Small TV/VCR/DVD players on carts with wheels
*Handheld electronic games (ie. Yatzee)
*Plug 'n Play games (small video games that plug right into the TV)
*Portable DVD players
*Dvd Player
*PSP games
Music/ Musical Equipment
*Children's music CD's - Ie. Lullabies, "sounds" like ocean, rain, etc., *Instrumental, Sharon, Lois and Bram,
*Sheet music of current pop songs
*Bass guitar and amp kit
*Child size guitar
*Drums (djambe and rhythm instruments)
*Music stand
*Beginner piano and guitar books
*Environmental sounds player (London drugs and Sears have them at *Christmas, manufactured by Conair or Homedics)
Craft Supplies
*Unlimited quantities of such things as: Pony Beads and plastic lace (lots!), *Craft kits ¡V ie. Small simple bead or paint kits, supplies for quilting (rotary cutter, lots of fabric, stuffing or flat pieces of batting, thread, buttons, ribbon), acrylic paints in basic colours (red, blue, yellow, green, black, white, purple, pink and orange), wooden/ceramic paintable craft items, wooden picture frames, artist's quality watercolour or sketching paper, charcoal, and real sketching pencils; scrapbooking supplies (acid Free paper, glue sticks, acid free stickers, albums, etc.)
*Mr Sketch smelly markers, and Crayola markers for the younger children
*Children drip-proof paint posts with lids (2 dozen)
*Small craft kits
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