01/07/2026
🐻✨ COMMUNITY DONATION CALL — HOBBY, MODELLING & BOARD GAMES ✨🐻
The Order of the Bear will be hosting some game design workshops and hobby build nights, and we’re looking for donations of hobby, modelling, crafting supplies, and board games to support hands-on, community-driven creativity.
If you’ve been in the hobby for years and have materials you’re no longer using, we’d love to give them a second life where they’ll be used, learned from, and appreciated.
🧰 Modelling & Craft Supplies
Acrylic craft paints (new or used), Brushes (any condition), Hobby knives / X-Acto knives, Scissors, Cutting mats, Glue (PVA, CA, contact cement), Sandpaper, files, sculpting tools
🏗️ Scenery, Diorama & Model Train Materials
Model train items (any scale), Buildings, kits, or partial kits, Track, scenery, accessories, Old or unused collectionsFoam board, XPS foam, insulation foam, Plaster, filler, texture paste, Static grass, flock, ravel, ballast, Trees, bushes, ground cover, Brick sheets, styrene, MDF scraps
🎲 Board Games (Any Condition Welcome)
Complete or incomplete board games, Games with missing pieces are absolutely OK
Donated games may be: Played as-is during club nights, Repurposed in upcoming board game designer workshops, given away at Party in the Park
🧩 Other Hobby & Scale Models
Model kits (started is OK), Miniatures or terrain pieces, Miscellaneous buildings and detail parts, Hobby odds and ends you’re no longer using
If you have an entire model train, board game, or hobby collection you’re ready to pass along, we’d be honored to take it and put it to good use with new and returning hobbyists and board gamers.
All donations will be:
• Used during club workshops and game nights
• Shared among participants and added to our community hobby resources
Drop in any Wednesday or Thursday or message us directly if you’d like to donate or need items picked up.
Thank you for helping keep tabletop hobbies alive and growing 🛠️❤️