Holiday Toy Swap & Community Playdate

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• Event & Details:

  Join us for a festive afternoon of swapping, snacking, and connecting with local families at Natural Resources! OurHoliday Toy Swap & Community Playdateis a fun, sustainable way to refresh your toy collection just in time for the holidays—while giving back to families in need. This is a sliding scale event! No one is turned away for a lack of funds.

• About the Event

  Bring up to 10 toys innew or like-new conditionand swap them for something “new-to-you.” We’ll have holiday treats, warm drinks, and plenty of time to enjoy the play space and meet other neighborhood families. It’s the perfect way to celebrate the season, declutter, and support our community.

  After the swap, all unclaimed toys will be donated to families in need through our partners at theSan Francisco Firefighters Toy Program.

  Toy Guidelines

  To ensure a high-quality experience for everyone, please follow these guidelines:

  • Bring up to 10 toys or booksin excellent condition

  • Toys must benew or like-new

  • No plush, fabric, or stuffed animalsunless
    newwith tags

  • No broken toys, missing pieces, or worn items

  • Please do your best toclean and sanitiz
    e toysbefore the event

  • Bulk drop-offs are not accepted —we’ll need your help to sort your toyswhen you arrive

  • Please RSVP

  Donate to RSVP

  This is a sliding scale event. A suggested donation of$15 per adultgoes directly toNatural Resourcesand includes full event access and your choice of “new to you” items to bring home. Babies and kids attend free!

  We appreciate your support of our house rules to keep the swap joyful, safe, and fun for all families attending.

  UNACCEPTABLE ITEMS
  Please, be respectful and thoughtful about what you can donate! While we appreciate the generous intention, leaving items that are in unacceptable condition forces us to have to spend organizational time & funds in hauling items to the dump, which nobody wants! We cannot accept items that are
  dirty, broken, chipped, cracked, scratched, smelly, stained, worn out, torn, wet, moldy, rusty, frayed, disassembled, incomplete, or have spent time exposed to the elements or to pet hair.

  We also cannot accept:
  -BREAST PUMPS
  -Car seats
  -Furniture
  -Bed frames, bean bags, mattresses, futons
  -Rugs
  -Used bedsheets, blankets, pillows, or towels
  -Household furnishings
  -Yoga mats
  -Humidifiers, dehumidifiers, air purifiers
  -Used or unpackaged pumping supplies, pump parts, pacifiers, etc

  Questions? Please contact Morgan Chaney-Arnold at morgan.a.chaney.

  Please note: In hosting this event, Natural Resources is acting only as a facilitator of peer-to-peer exchange and makes no implication of the safety or suitability of any swap items. Participants should exercise their own judgment in accepting items for their own use, and they do so at their own risk.

  • Kyle Casey Chu (Panda Dulce) is a San Francisco born-and-raised writer and one of the founding queens of the Drag Story Hour. Her work centers Queer & Trans People of Color (QTPOC) stories, atraditional chosen families and displaced San Franciscans.

    In June 2022, far-right extremists stormed her Drag Queen Story Hour. After authorities (somehow) failed to identify, disperse or cite the extremists, she finished the reading for the children and their families.

    She is now leveraging her international platform to tell even bolder QTPOC stories to global audiences. Kyle’s work has been featured on Vogue, NPR, NBC, HuffPost, VICE, Paramount+, Prime Video, them.us, at SXSW, the Harvard & MIT’s Broad Institute, as part of the White House’s “It’s On Us” campaign, and more. Her writing has received awards from the Sundance Institute, the San Francisco Arts Commission and the California Arts Council. Most recently, she is the creator of the forthcoming all-QTPOC web series: CHOSEN FAM. The series is currently under consideration for national distribution.