04/09/2026
🧸 Toy Donation Appeal - Therapeutic Play at St. John’s 🧸
We are very lucky in St. John’s to have teachers who have undertaken training in therapeutic play, allowing us to provide therapeutic play sessions for children in school.
These sessions give children opportunities, through play, to build confidence, express themselves, develop social and emotional skills and support their overall wellbeing in a safe and familiar environment. ❤️
To make these sessions as beneficial as possible, we are currently building up our collection of toys and play resources, and we would be hugely grateful for any donations from our families.
If you are having a clear-out at home and have clean toys in good condition, with all pieces intact, that your children have outgrown, we would be delighted to give them a new home in St. John’s.
Some of the things we would particularly love are:
* dolls, Barbies, baby dolls and doll accessories
* doll houses, families and small-world figures
* animals, dinosaurs, people, cars and vehicles
* teddies and soft toys
* puppets
* play food, kitchens, tea sets, shopping sets and toy money
* doctor/vet sets, toy phones and other pretend-play sets
* Lego, Duplo, blocks and construction toys
* Play-Doh/clay and art or craft materials
* dressing-up clothes and role-play props
* child-friendly musical instruments
* jigsaws, simple board games and matching games
* sand-play miniatures and other small-world toys
If you have anything suitable that you’d be happy to donate, simply pop it into a bag and leave it into the school office for Kate.
Thank you so much for supporting us in developing this lovely resource for our children. 🥰🧸
