Child Life Wish List

Thank you for supporting our patients and the Child Life department. Please know that due to patient confidentiality and infection control, donors are unable to deliver the items directly to patients. Donations may be dropped off at the Blank Children's Hospital administration office, Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Please contact 515.241.6152 with any further questions.

For more ideas, check out our amazon registry at:

. Enter “BCH” as the first name and “Child Life” as the last name. Full name is BCH Child Life.

Gift Criteria:

  • All toys must be new. We cannot accept used toys.
  • We cannot accept stuffed animals(new or used) due to infection control
  • No food or candy
  • Gifts must be latex free (including duct tape)
  • Gifts must be non-violent

Immediate Needs:

  • Card Games (Skip Bo, Phase 10, Uno)
  • Play-Doh® (specifically mini sizes)
  • Dot Paint (bingo stampers)
  • Thin Coloring books
  • Infant toys, rattles and teething toys
  • Battleship game
  • Chess/Checkers Sets
  • Operation game
  • 2 minute sand timers
  • Fisher Price Little People
  • Crayola Washable Kid’s Paint (black most needed)
  • Small circle sticker chart size stickers (Disney, Trolls, super hero, princess, emoji stickers)
  • Socks infant to 3 yr. old
  • Boy/girl underwear
  • White noise/Sound Machine
  • Thomas the Train toys
  • Elmo toys
  • Stress balls
  • Shoe box size clear plastic totes
  • Bubbles (Preferred types are Gazillion bubbles and long skinny tubes used for weddings)

Arts and Crafts:

  • Window paint/markers
  • Dot paint
  • Foam beads
  • Coloring/activity books
  • Adult coloring books
  • Model Magic
  • White painting canvases (all sizes)
  • Neon tempera washable paint
  • Velvet Art posters
  • Scratch art

Inpatient Bedside Items:

  • Crib mobiles/music boxes
  • Sound/white noise machines
  • Infant mirrors
  • Pinwheels
  • Stress balls
  • Cosmic Ray Wands

Infant/Toddler toys:

  • Plastic infant toys/rattles
  • Light Up/musical toys
  • Chunky cars/trucks
  • Pop-up toys
  • Baby Einstein Sea Dreams Soother
  • Character toys (all hard bodied/washable)
  • Elmo
  • Thomas the Train
  • Mickey/Minnie Mouse
  • Lion Guard
  • Medical kits ( Fisher Price brand)
  • Baby dolls (hard bodies/washable only)
  • Doll clothes & accessories (12-18 inch dolls)
  • Little People
  • Small tractors
  • DVD’s of: Paw Patrol, Mickey & the Roadster Racers, Sophia the First, Teen Titan, TMNT, Lion Guard, & Jake and the Neverland Pirates

School Age Activities:

  • Superhero action figures
  • Disney princess playsets
  • Imaginext people
  • Uno card games
  • Phase Ten card game
  • Skip Bo card game
  • Littlest Pet Shoppe animals
  • Lego sets (small and medium box sets)
  • The Game of Life
  • Monopoly Jr.
  • Lego Friends sets (small and medium box sets)
  • PS3 games (Madden NFL 16, NBA 2K16, MLB The Show 16, Lego Star Wars)
  • Magna Blocks
  • Nail decals
  • Fingernail polish
  • Mancala

Teenage items:

  • Water bottles
  • Gift cards

  • Over the door basketball hoops

Distraction Items (Theses items are on our amazon wish list)

  • Flashing Panda Meteor Storm
  • Toysmith 9” Cosmic Ray Wand
  • Toysmith Spiral Glitter Wand
  • I Spy Books (Large hard cover)
  • Free Play Magnatabs
  • Light up DNA Balls