Amber's Reason for the Season Toy Drive

12/21/2025

Amber’s Reason for the Season Toy Giveaway yesterday was amazing!🎁🎄🎅🏼🧸🥰

Thank you to everyone who made it happen and to everyone who attended!❤️

12/21/2025

12/21/2025

Guys, my heart is FULL of gratitude. My community is unmatched! Now that collections have come to an end, I have many wonderful people to extend a heartfelt thank you to:

❤️Thank you to my amazing dropbox locations.❤️
This is not possible without the support of so many local small businesses who are generous enough to host a dropbox. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to Maenza Family Dentistry, Holiday House of Destrehan, Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School, Best Life Nutrition Luling/We Go Nutrition, Glendale Enterprises, Salon Eight13, Small World Daycare of Destrehan, St Charles UMC, Destrehan, LA, Blend Nutrition, J’aime le Cafe’ Luling, St. Charles Parish Public Schools Central Office, NDurance Fitness at Hill Heights, The Seafood Pot, UpMarket Realty, Traci Woodard Salon, Boot T's Seafood, Honeydoux Cafe and Bakery, and Posh Girl, LLC. Together, these dropboxes collected 759 TOYS! WOW!

Special shoutout to my top 5 dropbox locations:
5th Place - Salon Eight13
4th Place - Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School
3rd Place - Maenza Family Dentistry
2nd Place - Small World Daycare of Destrehan
1st Place - Best Life Nutrition Luling

💚Thank you to the following contributors.💚
- Reginelli's Pizzeria Destrehan for hosting our Giveback Event.
-Rise + Grind for using your platform to advertise my collection.
- Best Life Nutrition for hosting a wonderful giveback event.
- St. Charles Parish & St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office for advertising our Toy Giveaway.
-Ethel Schoeffner Elementary BETA Club for making signs, collecting toys, and volunteering at the giveaway.
- UMC of Destrehan for generously hosting our event in your beautiful sanctuary.
- Thank you to each and every person who support and contributed.

💛Thank you to my support system for believing in me, encroaching me, and helping me make this possible.💛
- Sheri, Daren, Holly, Joey - I couldn’t do this without you guys.

🩷Thank you to the amazing volunteers who helped with setup and the giveaway.🩷

This is not possible without each and every one of YOU! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!❤️

Happy Holidays to all!🎄

12/20/2025

We still have toys left! It’s not too late to stop by St Charles UMC, Destrehan, LA!🎁🎄

12/20/2025

That’s a WRAP on year 11!
I am so proud and ecstatic to announce that together we collected 1,254 TOYS! WE beat my goal by over 150 toys!🎁
I just want to take a moment and thank my amazing COMMUNITY. We came together once again to celebrate the reason for the season. I am absolutely overwhelmed and overjoyed by the support I have received from you all over the past month and a half. I am in awe each year, you all never seize to amaze me with your generosity. My heart is truly so FULL!
I am SO excited for my toy giveaway tomorrow. More to come but for now, thank you ALL so very much, from the bottom of my heart🩷
Now let’s have some FUN at Amber’s Reason for the Season Toy Giveaway!😍

12/20/2025

She began as a middle schooler, now she’s a teacher – and after 11 years, she has no plans whatsoever to stop. This week DHS alum Amber Dillenkoffer will be holding her 11th annual Christmas toy [...]

12/19/2025

All of our drop boxes are officially picked up (some aren’t pictured)!!! Thank you SO much to all of the generous small businesses who hosted a box and to each and every one of you who donated! We FILLED lots of boxes this year!🤩🤩

GRAND TOTAL will be announced soon… drop your guesses below!🎁🎁

12/19/2025

Last shopping trip of the year was a HUGE success thanks to the generosity of YOU! Thank you all so much for your donations!🎁

Grand total will be announced tomorrow after the last of my drop boxes are picked up!🥰

12/18/2025

Thank you to St. Charles Herald-Guide for the article!🥰

12/18/2025

1 MORE HOUR TO SEND IN MONETARY DONATIONS! Venmo -dillenkoffer 🎁🎄🎅🏼🧸🤗