Maxwell’s Toy Box

Maxwell’s Toy Box Bringing joy to children battling cancer, our mission is to provide comfort with toys 💛🎗️

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05/24/2026

A lot of people see the child going through treatment.
But siblings walk through childhood cancer too. 💛

The waiting rooms. The schedule changes. The hospital visits. The moments where they learn to grow up a little faster than they should.

Today on National Brothers Day, we’re celebrating the big brothers who love fiercely through all of it.

Max is already the kind of big brother who protects, comforts, and stays close to his little sister through every season of life. And watching that bond grow has been one of the beautiful parts of this journey.

To the brothers showing up for their siblings through hard days and hospital days alike, today is for you. 🎗️

05/20/2026

Thanks to our sponsor The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, we’re able to continue showing up for children in cancer treatment year-round.

Their volunteers packed every item with care:

💛 260 Joy Packages
🎨 71 Coloring Book Sets
🧸 43 Sensory Toy Bags
🎗️ 40 Newly Diagnosed Family Bags

Then they joined us for deliveries, helping bring these items directly to kids and families navigating treatment.

These packages will be used during long clinic appointments, inpatient stays, chemo days, and difficult hospital routines. They help make treatment days a little more manageable for children who spend so much of their childhood inside hospitals.

To the entire Whiting-Turner team, thank you for showing up fully for the families, hospital partners, and this mission. Your support helped us reach more children and grow in a way that will continue long after this volunteer day ended. 🎗️

When hospital social workers let us know a child is having an especially difficult treatment day, inpatient stay, or emo...
05/19/2026

When hospital social workers let us know a child is having an especially difficult treatment day, inpatient stay, or emotional week, we work to make sure they receive one.

We recently began creating these cards for parents, too. Because childhood cancer is a whole-family experience, and caregivers need encouragement just as much as the children do.

These notes are handwritten by volunteers, board members, sponsors, and supporters who want families to know they are not facing this alone.

Sometimes a few kind words can matter more than people realize during long hospital days. 🎗️

05/18/2026

Packing another order from our nonprofit toy shoppe today. 💛

Every purchase helps fund toys, sensory items, crafts, and Joy Packages for children in pediatric cancer treatment. These items are used during chemo days, long clinic appointments, inpatient stays, and difficult hospital routines.

For many kids, a toy becomes the thing they focus on instead of an IV, a procedure, or hours spent in a clinic chair.

Because of your support, we’re able to keep showing up for families year-round.

100% of proceeds from our shoppe go directly back into supporting children battling cancer and their families. 🎗️

A huge thank you to our donors. 💛These items will go to the Joy Packages to children in pediatric cancer treatment durin...
05/15/2026

A huge thank you to our donors. 💛

These items will go to the Joy Packages to children in pediatric cancer treatment during long clinic visits, chemo days, inpatient stays, and procedures across our partner hospitals.

Every Joy Package is built with intention. From sensory items and art activities to bedside-friendly toys, these packages help create moments of calm, distraction, and comfort during difficult treatment days.

Your donations also help siblings feel included during long hours spent in clinics and hospital family spaces.

Because of this community, more children will have something comforting to focus on during treatment, and more families will feel supported while navigating childhood cancer.

Thank you for continuing to show up for these families year-round. 💛

05/14/2026

Childhood cancer takes far more than health. It steals time, routines, energy, milestones, and the simple freedom of just being a kid.

It turns hospital rooms into second homes. It asks children to face treatments most adults would struggle to endure. And it impacts entire families — parents, caregivers, and siblings who walk through every difficult moment alongside them.

That’s why Maxwell’s Toy Box exists.

For families like ours, this mission is deeply personal. We know how much comfort matters during treatment — not only for the child in the hospital bed, but for the entire family trying to hold everything together.

Through hospital-approved toys designed for bedside play, joy packages, and gas and grocery support, we help children and families navigate the emotional and financial weight of pediatric cancer treatment.

Every toy is chosen intentionally:
✨ to reduce anxiety
🎨 to encourage emotional expression
🧩 to create moments of normalcy and joy
💛 to remind children they are still kids first

And every donation helps us reach more families who need that support right now.

📢 Help us continue this mission and bring comfort, care, and moments of childhood back to kids facing cancer.

Not every toy is just a toy. 💛At Maxwell’s Toy Box, every item is chosen with intention — not only to bring joy, but to ...
05/13/2026

Not every toy is just a toy. 💛

At Maxwell’s Toy Box, every item is chosen with intention — not only to bring joy, but to support children and families through the realities of pediatric cancer treatment.

These toys are selected specifically for bedside play, meaning children can use them while sitting or lying in a hospital bed with limited space, energy, or mobility. They meet kids exactly where they are during treatment.

Each category serves a purpose:
🧩 Sensory toys can help reduce anxiety and overstimulation
🎨 Art and creativity give children emotional expression without needing words
🖐️ Fine-motor activities encourage gentle movement, focus, and distraction
✨ Imaginative play helps kids feel like kids again

And the impact reaches beyond the patient.

Siblings spend long hours in clinics, waiting rooms, and hospital family spaces too. Small toys help them feel included, comforted, and seen during incredibly difficult days.

Every toy we donate is hospital-approved:
✔ Individually packaged
✔ Safe and medically appropriate
✔ Easy to sanitize

Behind every box is more than play — it’s comfort, distraction, normalcy, and care during some of the hardest moments a family can face. 💛

Today, on International Nurses Day, we celebrate the nurses who bring comfort, strength, and compassion into some of the...
05/12/2026

Today, on International Nurses Day, we celebrate the nurses who bring comfort, strength, and compassion into some of the hardest moments a family can face. 💛

At Maxwell’s Toy Box, we’ve seen how pediatric nurses become familiar faces during long hospital days — the people who remember a child’s favorite toy, make them laugh before procedures, celebrate milestones, and sit beside them through the hardest moments.

For many kids in cancer treatment, nurses become trusted friends.

They help turn scary rooms into safer spaces. They bring comfort during chemo, distraction during difficult days, and kindness that families never forget. While doctors may come in and out, nurses are often the steady presence children see again and again throughout treatment.

The joy packages and hospital-approved toys we deliver are meant to support children emotionally during treatment, but nurses are the ones who help bring that comfort to life every single day.

To every nurse: thank you for the patience, warmth, compassion, and emotional care you give so freely. Thank you for treating children like children first — not just patients.

Your impact reaches far beyond medicine, and the friendships you build with these kids matter more than words can express. 💛

05/11/2026

When you shop through Maxwell’s Toy Box, your purchase does more than send a gift.

It helps stock pediatric oncology toy closets where children spend hours during chemo, clinic visits, and inpatient stays.

It helps deliver sensory toys and activity kits that children use during long infusion days and procedures.

It helps provide gas and grocery gift cards so families can keep getting to the hospital and keep food on the table during treatment.

Every order supports real moments inside pediatric cancer care. A child focusing on a toy instead of an IV. A sibling opening something of their own. A parent getting through another hospital day.

This is not extra.

It is part of how children and families get through treatment.

Mother’s Day looks different for families in pediatric cancer treatment.It can mean sitting in a clinic chair for hours,...
05/10/2026

Mother’s Day looks different for families in pediatric cancer treatment.

It can mean sitting in a clinic chair for hours, managing medications at home, and trying to hold onto some sense of normal while everything has changed.

Dina knows that reality firsthand.

After her son Max was diagnosed with leukemia, she built Maxwell’s Toy Box to make those long hospital days a little more manageable for other families.

Today, that looks like delivering sensory toys during chemo, stocking pediatric oncology toy closets, and providing gas and grocery support to help families stay afloat during treatment.

This Mother’s Day, we are thinking about the mothers navigating childhood cancer right now. Showing up for appointments, for their children, and for everything in between.

Happy Mother's Day! ❤️🌸👩‍👧‍👦

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