Holiday Toy Swap & Community Playdate

About the Event

Bring up to 10 toys in new or like-new condition and 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 the San Francisco Firefighters Toy Program.

Toy Guidelines

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

• Bring up to 10 toys or books in excellent condition

• Toys must be new or like-new

• No plush, fabric, or stuffed animals unless new with tags

• No broken toys, missing pieces, or worn items

• Please do your best to clean and sanitize toys before the event

• Bulk drop-offs are not accepted — we'll need your help to sort your toys when you arrive

• Please RSVP

Donate to RSVP

This is a sliding scale event. A suggested donation of $15 per adult goes directly to Natural Resources and 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@gmail.com.

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. 

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  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.