Over the 62 years of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program, Marines have distributed more than 400 million toys to more than 188 million needy children. Over its 18 year life span, the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation has supplemented local toy collections with more than 81.3 million toys valued at more than $487 million. Wow!
Throughout the week I’ll be sharing more information about Toys for Tots while giving away some items for you to keep or donate to local Toys for Tots efforts from these wonderful sponsors:
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As a member of the Holiday Extravaganza Digital Campaign, this post has been sponsored by Playmobil. I have received samples of all of the products and the companies are sending them to our winners.
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Holiday giving is super important! We make holiday gifts to our school, surprising them with a needed item or a check outside of fundraisers, and involve the kids in choosing a worthy charity like World Vision or the local animal rescue league
to support as well. Local + global!
We have already provided a filled stocking to be distributed to a child in our city, and we sponsor a child in India throughout the year, but we’re not done yet. Still mulling over all the possibilities! Thanks!
starrgregandamy (at) gmail (dot) com
Each of my kids picked out a tag on their school’s Holiday Giving Tree. I donated and toiletries to our local food pantry, and I co-hosted a holiday party at a family shelter where I gave out a Zhu Zhu pet to each child (courtesy of Cepia LLC)!
If I do win the Playmobil set, I will definitely donate it — maybe to the family shelter, maybe to the Ronald McDonald House near us. We love Playmobil and I’m sure there are so many families who will love Playmobil as much as we do.
bonggamom@yahoo.com
We adopt a family through my son’s school, we adopt a family through a professional organization and we donate to toys for tots. It is important to teach our children to give to those who have less than us!
This year I was lucky enough to attend the Holiday Extravaganza where I donated toys to Toys for Tots. dodgeavengersport99@yahoo.com
I adopt a family through my local social services agency!
actionadventuregrrl@yahoo.com
We support Toys For Tots most years and we always contribute to drives for our favorite children’s charity. Treehouse for kids. http://www.treehouseforkids.org/ They are an organization that helps foster children and their family.
@HSlater351
I love this time of year for just this reason, I love the feeling of giving…every single thing about it really. I am the person who buys and then can not wait to give it to you, making you open it early! I give to Toys for tots, who could resist making a child’s day bright by giving them a gift. I give items to both of my kids schools who adopt families and the other sponsors a school for severly autistic children to adults that are wards of the state. They get nothing if people do not donate. I wish I could give more this time of year!
Yahoo! I love Toys for Tots and Playmobil, Playmobil toys are the best for open ended play! They also last forever. My daughter plays with a 30+ year old Playmobil pirate ship that used to my brother’s when he was a kid!
I buy toys on sale throughout the year (starting with the after Xmas toy clearance sales). Then I donate them all to holiday toy drives. I have two bags for toys in my closet that I am going donate later this week.
Thanks for the fabulous giveaway!
molomatic at gmail dot com
We donate to Toys for Tots each season (10 toys this year through Chesco moms) and buy gifts for a child of a high school student through my teacher friends’ school. My kids usually set aside gifts they receive for birthdays to donate at the holiday time!
ls6791@yahoo.com
We donate to Toys for Tots and adopt a child through my son’s preschool
loriecaddoo@gmail.com
We donate to Toys for Tots and bought presents for our church’s giving tree.
butterflydoc
at twitter
Both our kids’ classrooms are adopting a family, and we participate in several Toys for Tots, canned food drives and diaper drives around the holidays! Great post Leticia!
We donate to toys for tots and participate in the angel tree
tbarrettno1 at gmail dot com
We donate to toys for tots (I just donated toys to Chester County Moms Holiday Extravaganza as well)…we also participate in adopt a family at my daughter’s school…just completed the little boy’s shopping today and hope he enjoys all we purchased for him!
amyedepaul@aol.com
@baybeenurseRN
We donated to the Toys for Tots at the Chester County Moms Holiday Extravaganza. It is an absolutly great cause. There is nothing like seeing the smiling faces on the Marines as you hand the toys to them, let alone imagining the look on a child in need’s face.
carrienmarc@aol.com
This is the first year that we’ve been able to donate to Toys For Tots. I feel very luck that blogging has given me the opportunity to do that! I’m donating some of the prizes I’ve won from blogs/contests to Toys for Tots.
Every year we give a toy in a local toy drive, as well as donate money to St. Jude’s Children’s hospital.
rmccoy1234@yahoo.com
This year, my family donated a gift card to the Mothers of North Arlington donation drive that went to women with children in shelters, we donated to the DC Food Bank – via Jessica’s A Parent in Silver Spring request, we give to Miriam’s Kitchen in DC – a kitchen that I have been associated with as a volunteer and donor for over 10 years that I highly recommend, and we donated to my children’s school so that the faculty could choose something off the wish list.
Yes, we donate to Toys for Tots! It truly is one of the best programs out there. We also have a box of food and gifts ready that we are taking to our local food bank tomorrow. They deliver boxes to local families that need help and there are a lot right now (unemployment in our county is 18%).
someluckydog at gmail dot com
This is the first year we “adopted” a family and what fun I had shopping for those two kids! I also shop clearance sales throughout the year and save those for a general donation to Toys For Tots.
alissa (at) funfindsforfamilies (dot) com
Each year my children buy a toy for toys for tops. It is important to teach them to give of themselves. suelee1998 @ gmail.com
Each year I try to do something different. This year I am donating a bunch of warm winter clothing (coats, sweaters, hats, and mittens) to a local family.
-Heidi
writeme at heidimail dot com
I bring gently used clothing to the local thrift store which supplies families in need with financial support and warm clothing during our harsh winters in Minnesota.
Coty.
cotysloan at yahoo dot com
We donate to Toys For Tots every year. Toys For Tots is so important to me because I work in child welfare and they help so many kids that I work with. 🙂
justicecw@hotmail.com