Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Division of Child Life
Wish List
Children admitted to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center receive the finest
medical treatment, emotional support, and loving care available anywhere. But children and
families in the hospital have other special needs that are met through the generosity of
individuals and organizations throughout Greater Cincinnati.
Your gifts of toys, handmade items, decorations, time, and more can go a long way towards
brightening a hospital stay. This wish list provides suggestions for items that you or your
organization can make or purchase to donate to the patients at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center.
If you have questions about any of these suggestions please call the Division of Child Life at
513/636-8855 or [email protected]
Donations may be left at the information desk in the hospital’s main lobby. Please attach
your name and address to your donation as we would love to acknowledge your generosity
which you can use for tax deduction purposes.
 Due to infection control restrictions, we can only accept NEW items. Please avoid toys
with detachable parts (like button eyes) that can be removed, swallowed, or inhaled.
 The patient population includes many infants and toddlers. Please avoid toys that have
small, chokeable pieces, sharp pieces or toys that fall apart easily.
 Please, no violent themed toys.
 Please do not gift wrap donations.
The items that Child Life is currently most in need of are:
* New Release DVD's - Rated G & PG
* Teen items (e.g., bath & body items, CD players, craft kits, including model car kits, for children
ages 10 and over)
* Gift certificates (e.g., Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Toys R Us, Target)
* Infant Rattles
It is extremely beneficial to our patients when individuals/groups donate these items or organize a
fund to collect the items.
ALL donated items must be brand new, contain no latex, and non-violent in nature. Stuffed animals
must also have all tags attached.
INFANT ITEMS
Bouncy seats
Teething rings
Infant Swing
Interactive noise and light toys
Ocean Wonders Aquarium (Fisher Price)
Rattles (plastic/vinyl type only)
Sparkling Symphony (Fisher Price)
Stroller (umbrella type)
Exersaucer
Baby Magna Doodle
Pop-up toys
Wagons (plastic)
TODDLER ITEMS
Buzy Boxes
Duplo blocks
Pull toys
See & Says
Musical toys
Shape sorters
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GAMES
Battleship
Boggle
Candyland
Chinese checkers
Chess
Chutes & Ladders
Connect 4
Dominos
Fishing Around
Life
Lucky Ducks
Memory games
Monopoly Jr.
Mr. Mouth
Phaze 10 card game
Pretty, Pretty Princess
Racko
Scattergories
Skipo
Sorry
Taboo
Uno and Uno Attack
Upwords
Yahtzee
24-500 pieces Puzzles (all kinds/sizes)
TOYS
Action figures (Spiderman/Superman/Batman)
Barbie dolls (all cultures), clothes and accessories
Checkers
Clue and Clue Jr.
Guess Who
Monopoly
Playing cards
Sequence
Trouble
Animals (plastic)
Dinosaurs (plastic)
TOYS (CONTINUED)
Dolls (plastic/vinyl) all sizes and diversities
Etch-A-Sketch
Farm set
Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars
Little People (Fisher Price) doll house/barn/zoo/train/etc. Legos
Magna Doodles
Medical play kits
Pretend food (plastic), dishes and kitchen supplies
Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head
Trucks and cars (all kinds and sizes)
GIFT CERTIFICATES
Best Buy
Toys R Us
Wal-Mart
Tickets to sport, theater and musical events
Target
ELECTRONICS
Nintendo game cube games
PlayStation II games
Blank VHS tapes
Computers, laptop and desktop
Polaroid cameras
TVs (19 inch)
Nintendo game cube systems
PlayStation II Systems
Batteries (AA, AAA, C, D)
CD players
Digital cameras w/ video cards
600 speed Polaroid film
Disposable cameras
New release movies (Disney, G, PG & PG 13)
CD Music for all ages (kids, lullabies, relaxation and teen)
Edited music for all ages is available at Wal-Mart
3-D glue
Beads & strings
Clothes pins
Construction paper
Crayons and coloring books
Fabric markers
Felt
Fuzzy posters
Hold punchers
Jewelry Making Kits
CRAFTS
Artificial flowers
Buttons
Coffee filters
Cotton balls
Easel paper
Fabric Paints
Finger paints
Glitter and glitter pens
Hot glue gun sticks
Large wooden shapes
Baseball caps (plain white)
Ceramic shapes to paint
Colored pencils
Craft kits
Elastic string
Feathers
Foam shapes and sheets
Glue sticks and bottles
Ink pads
Latch hook rugs
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Magnetic strips
Molding clay
Paper mache boxes to paint
Play Doh
Poster board
Scissors
Sewing kit supplies
Tacky glue
White t-shirts (all sizes)
Wrapping paper and ribbon
Markers
Paint brushes
Paper plates
Pompoms
Ribbon
Scrapbooking Supplies
Stain glass and paint
Tissue paper
Water color strips
Yarn
Model car kits
Paper lunch bags (all colors)
Pipe cleaners
Popsicle sticks
Saran wrap and foil
Sequins
Stickers and sticker books
White Pillow Cases
Wooden craft items to paint
SCRAPBOOKING SUPPLIES
Page protectors, Personal Trimmers, Stickers, Alphabet stickers, Cardstock, Overalls, Scissors
(preferably not decorative), Paperkins, Letter templates, Pattern paper, Paper storage, Chalk,
Pens, Colored pencils.
MISCELLANEOUS
Sport/Baseball caps
Teen health and beauty gift sets (body lotion, cologne etc.).
Gift bags
Journals
Make-up kits
Mylar balloons (unfilled)
Nail polish
Photo albums
Spanish books, music and videos
Sport team t-shirts
Magazines - Please call for suggestions
PROJECTS TO DO:
 Organize a drive to collect NEW items to be donated to the Division of Child (e.g., DVD’s
[ONLY Disney or New Release rated G, PG], disposable cameras, crayons, magazines, art
supplies, etc.)
 Organize an event to raise money for the Division of Child Life (e.g., car wash, bake sale,
etc.)
 School boxes: A school box or a decorated shoe box with NEW crayons, pencils, rulers,
glue, scissors, etc. is helpful for patients involved in the Hospital School Program.
 If you are interested in donating food items, please contact the Ronald McDonald house at
513/636-7642, 350 Erkenbrecher Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45215. We are not able to give
food items to patients, but parents at the Ronald McDonald House enjoy canned meats, snack
foods, and sweets
ITEMS TO MAKE
 Individual craft kits in ziplock bags with directions and supplies. Examples include:
- Cut out felt hand puppets or finger puppets with items to decorate.
- Friendship bracelets – strands of floss and directions
- Bead necklace – strand of elastic and selection of beads
- Clown face – paper plate, yarn for hair, puff balls for eyes, etc.
- Doodle pads – plain white paper stapled into a book
- Make-your-own-card – separately packaged for a variety of occasions - - birthday,
Mother’s Day, Father’s day, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, etc. (in each set – an envelope,
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a folded piece of paper for the card, designs on paper of different colors to cut and paste
to card)
- Holiday activity bags – cut-out shape (construction paper) of holiday item (Christmas tree,
pumpkin, Menorah, Kwanza candles, Kinora, Easter egg, etc.) with items to decorate.
- Blank sheets of paper with stickers, crayons, and items to use as decorations.
 Cut out construction paper shapes (e.g., kites, fish, etc.). Patients can then paint and decorate
shapes or the shapes can be used to decorate patient rooms or nursing units.
 Finger puppets made with felt, glue, and markers can be made for patients.
Thank you for thinking of the patients at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center!