Empty Stocking Club

11/23/2025

🎁 Countdown to the Toy Depot! 🎁
Only 18 days until the 2025 Empty Stocking Club Toy Depot at the Alliant Energy Center!

If you haven’t applied yet, there’s still time — visit www.emptystockingclub.com to submit your application.

📬 Paper vouchers for families who have already applied are being mailed this week!

🗓️ The deadline to receive a mailed voucher is December 1.
Applications submitted after that date will still be accepted, but you’ll need to pick up your voucher on-site at the Toy Depot on December 10 or 11 (that probably means waiting in lines...)

Want to get involved? ❤️
You can also volunteer or donate to help make the holidays brighter for local children. Learn more at emptystockingclub.com.

The Empty Stocking Club provides new toys to needy Wisconsin families in the Dane County area, ensuring every child has a toy each year at Christmas.

11/16/2025

🎁 Toy Voucher Update! 🎁

Hello, Empty Stocking Club families! ❤️

Applications are rolling in, and our team is busy preparing thousands of toys and books for this year’s Toy Depot (Dec. 10 -11). This week, we’ll begin preparing paper vouchers to mail to those who’ve already applied.

📬 You can expect your voucher to arrive the week of November 24 at the mailing address you provided on your application.

If you happen to see an error message when submitting your application, please don’t submit it again. Duplicate entries can delay your approval. If you entered your information once, you’re all set — we’ll send your voucher soon!

If you have not yet applied, you can still do so at www.emptystockingclub.com. Children 0-16 who live in Dane County or immediate surrounding communities are eligible.

Thank you for being part of this 107-year community tradition. We can’t wait to see you at the Toy Depot!

The Empty Stocking Club provides new toys to needy Wisconsin families in the Dane County area, ensuring every child has a toy each year at Christmas.

10/20/2025

Hello! Just wanted to confirm that applications are now open at https://www.emptystockingclub.org/register.html. If you submitted your application when the intro referenced 2024, please be sure to re-enter in the new application.

10/14/2025

Mark your calendars! The 2025 Toy Depot will take place at the Alliant Energy Center on Dec. 10-11, 2025. Applications to receive one toy and one book for each child will open the week of October 20 and will remain open until Dec. 1.

12/09/2024

Toy Depot is this week, Wed. 12/11 and Thurs. 12/12. If you applied and did not receive a voucher in the mail, you can get a copy of your voucher and shop for your toys and books at the Alliant Energy Center on Dec. 11 or 12 between noon and 6:00 p.m. If you choose to come earlier, we can't guarantee we will be able to get to you right away and you will likely have to wait in line. Don't worry - we have LOTS of great toys!!!

11/11/2024

Empty Stocking Club Applications are open! https://www.emptystockingclub.org/register.html
Register here by Dec. 4 to get a paper voucher in the mail. In-person shopping at the 2024 Toy Depot will take place at the Alliant Energy Center on Dec. 11 and 12, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

11/04/2024

PLEASE NOTE: We are experiencing technical difficulties with the Empty Stocking Club registration. We hope to have this fixed by Nov. 7. Please check back to register your children. Thanks - and sorry for the inconvenience!

11/03/2024

Empty Stocking Club season is about to begin. Today, donations and volunteer sign up begin. This event is made possible because of the incredibly generous support of our wonderful community. Soon, registration will open for families to receive one toy and one book for each of their children. In the meantime, checkout one example of that generosity here:

The company started in 1989 on West Johnson Street as Big Mike's Super Subs.