Service Projects

Service & Donations to Benefit Patients

Scout Service Projects
Please call (801) 662-5968 or email Marie.Hendriksen@imail.org if you are interested in doing an Eagle Scout project to benefit the patients at Primary Children's Medical Center. Leave the scout's name (first and last), phone number(including area code) and address(including city, state and zip code) to have information mailed to him.

Donate Toys & Other Patient-use Items to the Primary Children's Foundation
Listed are some of the most often requested items. For more information about donating items to Primary Children's Mecical Center, call (801) 662-5968.

Note: Please do not donate violent or gory toys and games, such as play swords, play guns, etc. Primary Children's Medical Center is a children's hospital and a place of healing.

Most Requested Items

• Rattles (no water inside, no cloth)
• Washable markers
• Spanish books
• Infant cause and effect toys (pop-up boxes, buttons to push)
• Teen craft kits
• Matchbox cars (or any small cars)
• Links (interlocking chains to hang rattles)
• Sound books
• Bubbles and bubble tumblers
• Beanie Babies or small stuffed animals (must be new)
• Polly Pockets (must be all plastic -- no hair)

Infant Toys

• Rattles (no water inside, no cloth)
• Pop-up toys
• Musical infant toys
• Plastic mobiles for infants with no cloth (Sassy)
• Fisher-Price Ocean Wonders Aquarium
• Fisher-Price infant toys

Toddler and Child Toys

• Action figures: Spiderman, Power Rangers, Toy Story, Rescue Heroes, Transformers, Harry Potter
• Fisher-price Select a Show Soother
• Fisher-Price Little People Fun Sets: Car Wash/Garage
• Fisher-Price animals
• Hot Wheels cars (any small cars)
• Polly Pocket sets
• Play sets: Diego, Littlest Pet Shop, Animal Farm, Weebles, dollhouses
• Plastic characters: Blues Clues, Dora the Explorer, Sesame Street, Scooby Doo, Bob the Builder
• Educational toys: Leap Frog
• Munchkin Mozart Magic Cube
• All-plastic baby dolls with no hair
• Puzzles: preschoolers to teenagers
• Rainsticks
• Noisemaker tubes
• Squeeze balls
• Slinkys
• Animal flashlights
• Hoberman Spheres
• Star Stackers
• Light spinners
• Viewfinder and reels
• Luna Stix
• Magic Kits
• Musini
• Donosaurs (medium size)
• Pretend phones with lights and sounds
• Sparkling Symphony
• Animal families
• Rubik's Snake
• Puzzle Bug
• Small Lego sets with a theme, such as Harry Potter, Star Wars, Bionicles
• Soccer balls, basketballs, footballs, Nerf balls, small stress balls
• Character toys: Dora the Explorer, Elmo, Disney characters.
• Pretend food, dishes, kitchen accessories
• Camping toys
• Bionicles games
• Play computer toys
• Plastic bowling sets
• Nerf basketball and hoop
• Preschool light up/sound toys
• Sweet Street dollhouses and figures
• Thomas the Tank Engine Train and Friends plastic fugures, coloring books, action toys, cars, etc.
• Flashing blinkylights

Supplies

• Colored pencils, glitter glue, Play Doh, acrylic paints, watercolor paints, washable paints, glitter, paint brushes (all sizes), children's scissors (Fiskar), gel pens (all types), stickers, glue (all types), white paper
• Kits — bead animal kits, friendship bracelets, fuse bead, counted cross-stitch kits, paper mache craft boxes, wooden stools or knickknack shelves to paint, wooden picture frames to decorate, spin art, coloring sheets, scrap booking kits, beaded necklaces and bracelets
• Ceramic and foam shapes for painting
• Glass beads, string, and clasps (for necklaces and bracelets for teens)
• Plastic models (snappable)
• Coloring books
• Crayola Markers — washable markers in bold and fine tip
• Washable ink for rubber stamps
• Rubber stamps (with a solid base)
• Collage materials, such as feathers, pipe cleaners, pom-poms, glitter glue, tissue paper, fun foam, foam cut outs, die cuts, gel pens, craft sand, washable paint in squeeze bottles, washable dot paints (do a dot art)
• Crayons
• Fuzzy posters
• New plain t-shirts and pillow cases for patients to paint
• Wood shapes (animals, vehicles, flowers, etc.)
• Color Wonder markers, paper (plain and printed), fuzzy pictures all by Crayola

Books

• I Spy books, sounds books, board books, lift the flap books, pop-up books, crossword puzzles, bound journals, photo albums, look and find books, word search puzzles, and Mad Libs
• Fisher Price plastic toy storybooks and Read Along storybooks and stories

Videos

• New release videos and DVDs. Also videos such as: Baby Einstein Series, Wiggles, Disney (any), Dora the Explorer, Bob the Builder, Caillou, Dragon Tales, SpongeBob, and Barney
• Spanish videos, DVDs, books and CDs are appreciated and needed. (Approximately ten percent of our patients speak Spanish)
• Thomas the Tank Engine Train videos and DVDs

Music (tapes or CDs)

• Classical music: Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Franz Schubert, Franz Josef Haydn
• Relaxing music: David Lanz, Jim Brickman, also instrumental flute, guitar
• Local artists: Jon Schmidt, Kurt Bestor, and Peter Breinholt, etc.
• Teen music (no parental discretion advisory CDs or tapes)
• Popular Country
• Josh Groban, Norah Jones, Michael Bublé
• Harry Potter books on CD or tape, KidzBop, Radio Disney, Disney Princess

Games

• Card games: Hearts, Go Fish, Old Maid, Rook, UNO, Skip-Bo, Phase 10, playing cards (lots)
• Board Games: Apples to Apples, Connect 4, Sorry, Bop It, Dominos, Sequence, Simon, Yahtzee, Chess, Checkers, Catch Phrase, Harry Potter games, Memory, Scooby Doo games, Blues Clues, Guess Who, Bop It games, Mouse Trap, Scene It games, Connect Four, Kids Cranium Games, Don't Break the Ice, Dominoes, Battleship, Ants in Pants, Cootie, board games with PBS characters.
• Adult and teenage board games: Monopoly, Life, Payday, Cranium, etc.
• Electronic games: Hand-held games (Yahtzee, Sorry, Battleship, Wheel of Fortune, Connect 4, etc.)
• Systems, games and/or controllers: Play Station II, Game Cube, Game Boy, X Box, Nintendo, computer games rated "everyone"
• 20 Questions handheld and group size games by Radica Games

Miscellaneous

• Gift certificates to buy books, music and fast food
• Teen and children's posters
• Underwear (boys and girls, sizes 2 years to young adult)
• Lotion, nail polish, lipstick, eyeliner, eye shadow
• Disposable cameras
• Crazy straws
• Bath items
• Rattles
• Sun glasses (school age and younger sizes)
• Tape and CD players (all kinds, medium sizes especially)
• Pretend toys for play kitchen set — washable, non-food items: appliances, plates, pots and pans
• Mobiles — non-cloth, wipeable surfaces
• Plastic characters — Blues Clues, Dora the Explorer, Sesame Street, Scooby Doo, Bob the Builder

Items to be sewn

• Quilts: 72 x 90, 54 x 80, and 45 x 60 (no all-red flannel). Quilted or tied quilts are both okay.
• Medical play dolls — dolls used for patient education and comfort: Dolls made of muslin and stuffed with batting. Doll gowns are also needed; Call for patterns (801) 662-5968
• Pajama bottoms (ages 8-20)
• Any baby clothes (newborn to 18 months)
• Receiving blankets (36" x 36" or larger)
• Underwear (especially for boys ages 3-12, but also for all boys and girls sizes 2 years to young adult)