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Sugar Plum Shop

 
The Sugar Plum Shop - an in-hospital holiday toy store - is just one piece of a magical holiday season at Children's of Alabama.  The Sugar Plum Shop is Children's of Alabama's program for inpatients and their families who spend the holidays at the hospital. Hospital staff, corporate partners and volunteers build a toy store in the Hospital and invite parents to shop-free of charge-for gifts for their patient and their other children in the days leading up to the Christmas holiday. Through the Sugar Plum Shop, Children's hopes to empower parents by providing access to free toys and gifts during the holidays - a time when they may feel especially powerless about the fact that their child is spending time in the hospital. 

In 2011, more than 500 children received gifts from the Sugar Plum Shop-more than 200 patients and 300 of their siblings each received five toys, a book, a stuffed animal, stocking stuffers and each family received two board games. Volunteers wrapped the gifts while parents enjoyed a small break from the stress of their child's hospitalization in our Hospitality Suite.

All toys, books, board games and stuffed animals that are distributed to families through the Sugar Plum Shop come from generous donations from the community. For an idea of the types of donations that we ask for, please review our wish list below.

  

 TOYS

Infant light up toys

Infant musical toys

Teen gifts

Crib toys

Toddler toys

School age gifts and toys

Board games

Arts and crafts kits

Scrapbooks and scrapbooking supplies

Jewelry making kits

New books (all ages)

 

 ELECTRONICS

Electronic games

iPods

New release DVD's (all ages)

New release CD's

Teen hand-held games

 

 

 

*We especially need gifts for our teen patients-gift cards, DVD's and video games are great options!

 

           GIFT CARD IDEAS

Gift cards are great for our older patients. Gift cards to the following stores are particularly popular:

Wal-Mart

Best Buy

Target

Hobby Lobby

Toys-R-Us

iTunes

Michael's

Books-a-Million

 

 

 *Items that we CANNOT accept for safety reasons: 

Candy or food items

Used stuffed animals

Used books

Toy weapons, toys that have weapons attached or any kind of "shooting" toy

Yo-yo's

Jump ropes

Paddle boards with string and ball attached

 

 

We are also in need of wrapping materials including gift bags and wrapping paper.

For more gift ideas, please visit our TargetList at Target.com and our Wish List at Walmart.com
both under First Name: Children's Last Name: Alabama

 

 

THANK YOU TO OUR SUGAR PLUM SHOP SUPPORTERS

 

 

For more information about the Sugar Plum Shop, please contact Wynne Speir at wynne.speir@childrensAL.org or 205.638.5014.


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