Wish List

Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital understands that being in the hospital can mean different things to different people. The Family and Child Life Services Department at Rainbow works in collaboration with patients and other members of the hospital team to make the hospital experience more manageable. All of the items on this list will benefit the patients and families of Rainbow.

With 200+ beds, Rainbow is one of the nation's most renowned pediatric medical centers and serves as a principal referral center for Ohio and bordering states. Approximately 65% of our patients are under age 3, and 20% are over age 12. Please call the Development Department at 216-844-1590 if you have any questions regarding this wish list.

Child Life and Family Services "Wish List"

Holiday Wish List

Items $10 and Under

Items $30 and Under

Other Needed Items

Items NOT Recommended for Donation

Holiday Wish List

Infant/Toddler

• Lights, sounds and/or movement toys
• Lights and sounds rattles
• CD lullabies
• Teethers, inexpensive rattles
• Stuffed animals
• Wooden handled puzzles
• Board books
• Bibs and sippy cups

Preschool

• 24 piece puzzles
• Doll house/gas station with little people
• Barbie type dolls and accessories
• Electronic educational toys
• Pop-up books
• Sing-a-long CDs
• Dolls for boys and girls

School-age

• Crayola Stamp Markers
• Glitter markers and/or glue
• Tattoo markers
• Hair accessories
• Craft kits (beads, paints, yarn, etc...)
• Uno cards and playing cards
• Small flashlights
• Super Heroes
• Transformers
• Leggos
• Jenga

Adolescents

• Gift cards:  Best Buy, Music chain store, Cinemas, Bookstores, Restaurants, Toys-R-Us
• All sizes of sweats, boxers, T-shirts
• Body and hair soaps, creams, scents
• CD Walkmans, music CDs
• Sport balls
• Picture frames
• Photo albums
• DVDs, videos (G/PG 13)
• Disposable cameras
• Watches
• How to draw books
• Sport jerseys/caps
• Posters

Stocking Suffers

• Pinwheels
• Bubbles (wedding favor sized bottles)
• Coloring books/crayons (4-8 pack)
• Band-Aids popular characters
• Small cars (Match box size)
• Tattoos
• Gel pens
• All size mittens/gloves/caps/scarves
• Small spiral ring note pads
• Beanie Babies Pleeezzz!!
• Sport bottles
• Fun straws
• Stickers
• Chapstix/Lip Smackers

Items $10 and under

• Band-Aids (with kid-theme pictures)*
• Disposable cameras*
• Small flashlights
• Batteries (AA, AAA)
• Bubbles (small bottles)*
• Infant rattles/teeters/bibs*
• Stickers*
• Journals (blank)
• Decks of playing cards*
• Decks of specialty games (Uno/Go Fish, etc.)*
• Coloring/Activity books*
• Gift certificates (restaurants, books, movies, clothing, etc.)
• Crayons (small boxes)*
• Markers (large/small)
• Colored pencils
• Construction paper
• Glue sticks
• Blank VCR tapes & Cleaning tapes for VCRs
• Blank DVDs
• Blank cassette tapes
• Instant Polaroid 600 film*
• Crayola water color paints
• Match box cars*
• Wrapping paper/Gift bags (holiday, birthday, general)
• Pin wheels
• Non-latex stress balls*

Items $30 and under

• Photo albums
• Tape recorders (GE w/ automatic stop or Sony Walkman with headphones)*
• Disposable cameras
• Journals (blank hard bound)*
• "I Spy" books
• Books with push button noises
• Fisher Price Doctor Kits
• Game Boys*
• Game Boy game cartridges*
• Nintendo 64 game cartridges*
• Magna Doodles
• See N Says
• V-tech toys
• Bulk beads w/ elastic or plastic string
• Pool cues with chalk
• New baseball caps (w/ logo or professional name)*
• Jerseys (w/ logo or professional name)*
• Footballs or other Nerf ball products*
• Gift certificates (restaurants, movies, clothes, Toys R Us, etc.)
• Beauty products (Bath & Body Works)
• Puzzles (wooden, 50-100-1000 piece)
• Baby dolls (multicultural)
• Lullaby CDs (all kinds, non-religious)*
• Board games
• Fisher Price infant, toddler toys
• Crib mobiles - "Sassy Developmental Mobile" brand at Toys R Us
• Hand-made quilts fro infant/toddler age*
• Model magic-white colored (art modeling compound in tub)*
• Electronic hand-held games*

Other Needed Items

• Laptop computers (6)
• Digital cameras (8) and memory cards
• Digital scanner
• Photo paper
• Pool table
• Cue sticks/chalk
• Game Cubes/games (non-violent/all ages)
• TV monitors (for Game Cubes)
• Durable carts (to secure Game Cube/TVs)
• Sturdy shelving - 6/8 tiers on wheels (4) (for donation storage)
• Computers and printers
• Video cameras
• VHS Rewinder/Cleaner Equipment
• TV/VCR mounted on cart
• Flat beds (2) fro transporting items-especially during the Holidays
• Plastic bins-Large and Small - for storage
• Holiday wrapping paper
• Holiday colored wrapping tape
• Holiday gift bags and tissue paper
• During holiday season-candy canes

*Most Needed Items

Items NOT recommended for donation

• Military toys
• Guns of any sort
• Religious theme materials (books, toys, etc.) (those items can be donated through the Hospital Chaplain's office)
• Latex/Rubber balloons (Mylar acceptable)
• Bubble bath