Stuffed Animals

Goodwill might not take them. I tried to donate baby toys and was told that Goodwill no longer takes children's toys due to the recall blitz from the past few years.

I ended up donating those toys to the Austin women's shelter.

A Safe Place
from the website: http://www.safeplace.org/Page.aspx?pid=363

Donations can be dropped off at the Gil Crane Warehouse

Where:
1515 Grove Blvd

Hours:
Tuesdays-Fridays
(10AM to 3PM)
Wednesdays
(10AM to 6PM)

I personally preferThrifttown in the Cherry Creek Plaza at 5700 Manchaca Road... corner of Stassney and Manchaca

You might consider Brown Santa. I pulled this from their website.

All donations need to be new and unwrapped. We do accept very gently used toys if all pieces are present and are in excellent shape.

If you have a Ronald McDonald house in your area, I know the kids would love them.

Hi. This is L. from KIDS-N-CATS Unique Gifts in Austin. We recommend the Assistance League on Burnet Rd for donating clean stuffed animals. The money goes to help children and the volunteer ladies are incredibly nice!

Art on Fifth is collecting toys to send to Mexico for Christmas. It's on the south side of 5th St. between Mopac and Lamar.

Since you plan to just give them away-why not give some to Dell's Children Hospital, some to other hospitals with cheildren, some to the police department, some to children's shelter, or hoemless shelter. And when giving attach a prayer for health, healing and love.

Check with Blue Santa. I know that they used to put a stuffed animal in each child's package.
Ours were too well loved to even think about passing them along to other children so my husband too them to an animal shelter. They workers there were thrilled and said that there was a shortage of stuffed animals for the animals at their facility because people just didn't think about animal shelters when making that type of donation.