Child Life Services617-724-5839

2025 Holiday Donations Gift Giving Guidelines

Our donation drop offs will occur between December 15th – December 22nd this year and must be scheduled in advance of the drop off. Please refer to our 2025 holiday donation flyer (PDF) for further questions. Email inquiries can be sent to mghchildlifedonations@mgb.org.

Year-round Needs

Many thanks for thinking of our pediatric patients here at Mass General Brigham for Children throughout the year. Suggested items most in need are listed below. For additional questions, please email mghchildlifedonations@mgb.org.

Gift cards
  • Amazon ***most needed***
  • Michael’s (craft store)
  • Target
  • Star Market
  • Whole Foods
  • Starbucks
  • Dunkin'
  • CVS
  • Stop & Shop
  • Best Buy
  • Forever 21
  • Abercrombie
  • Visa gift cards
Infant/Toddler
  • Light up/musical/vibrating toys
  • Shape sorters, pop-up toys, and stacking toys (geared to children 12 months-36 months)
  • Toddler car and truck toys
  • Rattles and teethers
  • Baby sound machines
  • Board books
  • Wooden puzzles
Preschool
  • Fisher-Price Little People/animals
  • Toy trains
  • Paw Patrol/PJ Masks items
  • "Toy Story" items
  • "Frozen" items
  • Baby dolls (plastic not cloth)
  • Megablocks
  • Doctor kits
  • Barbies
  • Animal/dinosaur figurines
  • Pretend household items (plastic kitchen, cleaning, etc.)
School-age
  • Legos (individual kits) *
  • Lego Base Plates
  • Lego Friends
  • LOL Dolls
  • Shopkins*
  • Power Rangers
  • MegaBots
  • Blind Bag toys*
Adolescent
  • Teenage/meditative coloring books
  • Fun stress balls
  • Friendship bracelet “floss”
  • Boondoggle/Gimp
Arts and crafts
  • Slime making kits
  • Play-Doh (4 or 6 pack) and “tools” for Play-Doh*
  • Ceramics to paint (for example: little figurines, jewelry boxes)
  • Wooden crafts to paint (cars, trains, animals, etc.)
  • Colored pencils/markers/crayons
  • Construction paper
  • Tempera paint
  • Model Magic*
  • Paint brushes
  • White canvases
Additional items
  • Nail kits
  • Make-up kits
  • Lip Smackers
  • Boston sports-related attire: hats, shirts, socks, etc.
  • Xbox One games
  • New England Aquarium passes (and IMAX)
  • Museum of Science passes
  • Children’s Museum passes
  • Movie passes: Showcase, Regal, and AMC cinemas
  • LegoLand passes
  • Zoo passes (Stone and Franklin Park)
  • Duck Tour passes
  • Bowling passes

*Denotes items that are a high need