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General Wish List
University of Maryland Children's Hospital Child Life Department
These items are routinely used and most appropriate for entertaining children while in the hospital. While our patients range in age from a few hours old to 20 years old, many of our children are infants and toddlers and this list reflects the fact that we have a sizable need for play items for them. Items may be used for birthday/special celebration events or for general use in our activity rooms. Please remember that all items must be new.
Under $10
- AquaDoodle® and MagnaDoodle®
- Books:
- infant and toddler board books
- preschool picture books
- coloring books
- activity books (word search, crossword)
- Mad Libs
- Blank journals or sketch books
- Bubbles
- Character Band-Aids
- Blue's Clues
- Disney
- Dora
- SpongeBob
- Spiderman
- Color Wonder Crayola craft sets
- Crayola markers, crayons, colored pencils, paint sets
- Chap stick (variety of flavors)
- Decks of cards
- Disposable cameras
- Duncan Yo-Yos
- Fuzzy posters
- Gift cards:
- Hair care items (brushes, big tooth combs, pony tail holders, hair clips)
- Hotwheels® and Matchbox® cars
- Individual packets of Model Magic®
- Infant toys & rattles:
- Plastic rattles
- Sensory blocks by Fisher Price
- Shape sorters by Fisher Price
- Snap beads
- Stacking toys
- Sassy brand items
- Teething rings
- wrist & foot "jingles"
- Koosh® balls
- Kids' and teen magazines
- LEGO® sets
- Nail polish, remover, and fingernail files
- Plastic mazes and puzzle games
- Puzzles - 24, 40, 60, 100 pieces
- Play Doh® (regular & party pack sizes)
- Scrapbooking supplies
- Small craft kits
- Stickers
- Silly string
- Stress balls
- Wrapping paper & gift bags - birthday and special celebrations
Under $25
- Action figures - Rescue Heroes®, Spiderman, and Batman in particular
- Baby dolls - all plastic, no hair
- Barbies®
- Books - Pop up books, I Spy books, Look-A-Like books,
talking books, Spanish books
- Building blocks - especially Duplo® and LEGO®
- Board games:
| Battleship® |
Don't Break the Ice® |
| Chess/checkers |
Monopoly® |
| Sorry® |
Trouble® |
| Connect 4® |
Guess Who® |
| Candy Land® |
Chutes & Ladders® |
| Hungry, Hungry Hippos® |
- CDs of classical music, lullaby music, sing-a-long music (Raffi, Wee Sing, Pooh Corner, Spanish language)
- Craft kits
- Character slippers with safety skid soles (toddler and preschool size)
- Dolls with plastic bodies
- DVD movies (recent releases - G, PG, & PG-13 only)
- Fisher Price®, Playskool®, Discovery Toys® infant, toddler and preschool
toys
- Gift cards for special event planning (Michael's, Target, Toys R Us,
Wal-mart and grocery stores for food activities)
- Hand held electronic games (Connect 4®, Yahtzee®, 20 ?s®, Suduko, Tetris, football)
- Kaleidoscopes
- Model kits - snap and glue
- Music boxes and busy boxes
- Kaleidescopes
- Koosh® balls, Koosh® Hoops and over-the-door basketball hoops
- Puzzles - 40, 60, 100 pieces
- Plain white t-shirts for painting - S, M, L
- Scrapbooking supplies
- Stuffed animals (must be brand new)
- Toys with lights and noises
- Travel size and regular size Etch-A-Sketches®, Magna Doodles®, Connect 4®, etc.
- Travel toiletry bags
Under $50
- Bouncy seats (Fisher Price preferred)
- CD players
- Cricut cartridges®
- Fleece blanket kits
- Gift cards for special event planning (Michael's, JoAnn Fabrics, Party City and grocery stores for food activities)
- Non-violent video games (E-rated) for X Box 360, Wii and Playstation 2
- Scrapbooking kits
- Sound machines (i.e., HomeMedics, The First Years, Cloud B brands)
This page was last updated on: June 3, 2011.
For more information about UMCH or to make an appointment,
please call 1-800-492-5538 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 (physicians).
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