
Italian Home is so thankful and fortunate to have generous supporters, like you! Every year, we are overwhelmed by the support and good will from the community to ensure our children have a special holiday season. This year, we need it more than ever and are asking for your help once again. The pandemic has changed a lot for our community, and it has changed a lot for the youth we serve. Change is not always easy for our kids, so this year we are trying to really make a special experience for them.
If you are in a position to do so, we ask that you take a look at the list below for gift ideas or make a financial contribution to support our work all year long.
We truly appreciate any item you would like to purchase from this list. (Please note that we cannot accept toy guns and movies, video games or books depicting violence.)
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are asking that you make efforts to have gifts delivered to Italian Home instead of dropping them off in person. Gifts can be shipped to:
Italian Home for Children, Attn: Pat Gotham
1125 Centre Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
If you are unable to ship gifts this year, unwrapped, new gifts can be dropped off at our Administrative Office with advanced notice. To arrange a dropoff, please contact Pat Gotham at pgotham@italianhome.org.
If you order from Amazon, consider using Amazon Smile supporting Italian Home: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/
If you choose not to order through our wish list, below is a list of items our children often request. Links are examples for your reference.
- Target gift card
- Amazon gift card
- Five Guys gift card
- Dunkin gift card
- Showcase Cinemas gift card
- AMC Movie gift card
- Best Buy gift card
- Michaels gift card
- Passes to Museum of Science
- Passes to New England Aquarium
- Passes to Legoland
- Underwear and socks for children ages 4 to 12
- Legos (ages 5-12)---these are a huge favorite among our kids
- K'Nex sets
- LeapFrog LeapPad
- Art and craft supplies (googly eyes, pipe cleaners, feathers, etc.)
- Scented markers
- Yoga mats
- iPod Touch -- pink and silver
- iPad Mini -- space gray
- Headphones
- Batteries (especially D, AA and AAA)
- Slime and Slime mix-ins
- Pokemon cards
- Pokemon figurines
- Pokemon binder
- Board Games for ages 4 to 21
- Lego Chain Reactions kit
- Kinetic Sand
- Orbeez
- Clay
- Xbox and PS 4 and the games for E (everyone)
- Nintendo Switch or Nintendo Switch Lite and games for E (everyone)
- SpongeBob and Spiderman comic books
- Transformer Toys
- Captain Underpants Books
- My Little Pony
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Sketchbook
- Goosebumps Books
- Power Rangers
- Play kitchen items
- Bath bombs
- Sit and Spin
- Hippity Hops
- Bean bag chair
- Piano books for children
- Hand trampoline
- Earmuffs or ear defenders
- MagnaTiles
- Balance Discs
- Bosu Ball
- Perler Beads
We also need these items for our residential dorms:
- Pots and pans
- Frying pans
- Baking sheets
- Cupcake tins
- Brownie pans
- Cooking utensils
- Electric griddle
- Kid themed place mats
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact us, we also are always in need of PPE and cleaning supplies:
- KN-95 masks
- Disposable gloves
- Disinfecting wipes
- Hand sanitizer
Thank you and Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones!
