Final Day! Children's Hospital Toy Drive- Shop Now!

[NariaDreaming]

We will be removing the announcement on 4/20. Be sure to finish up your shopping

Updated with toy purchase counts and high priority requests

As of 4/20
Toronto Sick Kids- 45 items
CHOP- Voorhees- 73 items
CHOP- Main Campus- 71 items
Boston Children's Hospital- 155 items

I've also edited the priority of some of the items based on the hospital wishlists. Crayons are also a single-child-use item, so the cases of crayons have been moved to highest priority as well.

You can sort the list by "priority" to see these high-need items!

It's that time again, everyone. You've voted, and we are ready to open the doors to the virtual shopping lists for the four hospitals selected for the Then Comes Family Toy Drive. The hospitals are:

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia- Voorhees Satellite location (NJ)
Boston Children's Hospital
Toronto Sick Kids

Each hospital has its own wishlist. We have four wonderful coordinators who will be receiving and delivering the gifts to the hospital.

There are toys at multiple price points, and each US list has at least 50 items that cost under $5 each!

As a note, the Canadian wishlist is open to anyone, however if you are in the US, you will not receive Prime shipping and will have to pay for shipping costs, as well as exchange fees.

CLICK HERE for Boston Children's Hospital

CLICK HERE for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

CLICK HERE for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia- Voorhees

CLICK HERE for Toronto Sick Kids

When going through check out, pick the "First name, Last Name- Registry address" shipping option.

[kaf7]

NariaDreaming, the sick kids link doesn't link to a wish list. I tried the others and they worked.

[NariaDreaming]

Apr 6, 2016 9:54:22 GMT -5 kaf7 said:

NariaDreaming, the sick kids link doesn't link to a wish list. I tried the others and they worked.

I'll try to fix it shortly.

[NariaDreaming]

Apr 6, 2016 9:54:22 GMT -5 kaf7 said:

NariaDreaming, the sick kids link doesn't link to a wish list. I tried the others and they worked.

Try it now

[kaf7]

Works now! Thanks.

[NariaDreaming]

Apr 6, 2016 10:59:58 GMT -5 Sunny41 said:

when selecting a shipping address is it "fistname lastname Gift Registry Address"? never done this before. THanks!

Yes!

[theophania]

Lots of books sent everywhere, lol. Thanks for setting up the lists.

[NariaDreaming]

Apr 6, 2016 18:29:36 GMT -5 theophania said:

Lots of books sent everywhere, lol. Thanks for setting up the lists.

I had entirely too much fun doing it!

[fancynewbeesly]

So, Reese, DH and I are the coordinators for Voorhees.

Things started arriving and Reese is SOOO excited to give them all to Miss Lindsay (child life specialist) when her clinic visit is at the end of the month. So, we started to pat ourselves on the back---saying well Reese understands giving and not all things are for, etc.

And then the oh wise one is looking through some of the things and is planning which ones she will have Miss Lindsay open so she can use it with her friends at her visit!

Oh well.

Thank you everyone for the wonderful donations---they are amazing!

[redheadbaker]

FYI, both Philadelphia links go to CHOP-Vorhees.

[Unknown]

This is such a wonderful idea! I just wish I could have bought more for the kids.

[k3am]

I'm very curious.. how do the lists get populated? Are they wish lists from the hospitals themselves, or items that TCF has suggested on it's own?

I asked this entirely based on curiosity and our experience at several different hospitals. I know tone and what not don't convey in type, so at the risk of overexplaining myself, this is not at all a criticism of the lists in general - I think they're amazing! Just curiosity.

(For the most part, the hospitals that we stayed at were great, one of them.. Not so much. We've since sent that one a stockpile of DVDs and VHS tapes that we bought and/or collected from my mom's running group.)

[NariaDreaming]

Apr 12, 2016 15:18:24 GMT -5 k3am said:

I'm very curious.. how do the lists get populated? Are they wish lists from the hospitals themselves, or items that TCF has suggested on it's own?

I asked this entirely based on curiosity and our experience at several different hospitals. I know tone and what not don't convey in type, so at the risk of overexplaining myself, this is not at all a criticism of the lists in general - I think they're amazing! Just curiosity.

(For the most part, the hospitals that we stayed at were great, one of them.. Not so much. We've since sent that one a stockpile of DVDs and VHS tapes that we bought and/or collected from my mom's running group.)

The 3 US hospital ones are fairly generic, based off of the most commonly requested items on the websites of 10 or so major children's hospitals. I made the first one before we voted on any hospitals, and then kind of added/removed based on the specific hospital wishlist once the winners were chosen.

For Canada, it was based off of TSK's website requests

[Patrick]

[NariaDreaming]

Patrick you rock!!!!

[theophania]

That is amazing.

[oldbaylover1024]

This is an amazing thing. Thanks for coordinating