How Can You Help?

With Your Time

Project Birthday Bag is a volunteer-run organization by people in our community striving to make a difference one child and one birthday at a time. We are always in need of enthusiastic people who want to jump in and donate time to pull together all the trappings of a birthday, deliver bags to our partners, or are willing to make a toy run when companies have a toy drive.

Please contact us for volunteer opportunities while we continue to social distance and follow guidelines for COVID-19.

With Your Gifts

We need toys!!! We need party goods!!! And we need your help in getting the word out to your co-workers, family, and friends. Serving children age one to 13 we can use any age group toy, gift cards, and everything you would want to throw your own party or a party for a child you love.

Gift Suggestions for Toddlers

  • Pull toys
  • Bath Toys
  • Blocks
  • Hit the Fisher Price aisle and have fun

Gift Suggestions for School-Age Kids

  • Coloring books
  • Board games
  • Barbies
  • Baby dolls
  • Balls – basketballs, baseballs, soccer balls, footballs
  • Girly stuff – hair accessories, lotions, nail polish, purses
  • Action figures
  • Legos
  • Trucks/remote control cars
  • Craft Sets
  • Drawing Sets
  • Nerf guns
  • Pokemon cards

Gift Suggestions for the Older Kids

  • Nail Polish
  • Makeup Sets
  • Bath and Body sets
  • Fleece Blankets
  • Axe Deodorant
  • Earphones/buds
  • Adult coloring books

Gift cards from

  • Andy’s
  • Casey’s
  • Wal-Mart
  • McDonalds
  • Sonic
  • Target
  • Academy Sports

Party Supplies

  • Candles
  • Party plates & napkins
  • Cake mix and Icing

Drop Off Donations

Call Project Birthday Bag at (417) 763-3369 to arrange donation drop-offs.

What are Fun Ways to Get What Project Birthday Bag Needs?

  • Host a virtual birthday party and direct your guests by invitation to projectbirthdaybag.org to purchase a gift for a child. We will send them a thank you note from you for their generous participation!! You don’t even have to clean the kitchen and decorate… we just add the toys to the shelves and you are a birthday HERO!!!
  • Have a dress down day at your company to benefit Project Birthday Bag.
  • Have your Sunday School class or small group choose a different age each month and bring age-appropriate toys
  • Ask your customers to help Project Birthday Bag with a toy drive or a cake mix drive. We’ll bring you some great birthday boxes to collect the donations in!
  • Allow us to share Project Birthday Bag’s mission at your next club or organization’s meeting.

The most fun way?

  • Throw a birthday party for yourself or a friend, but this year ask for toys for Project Birthday Bag. When was the last time you got to open tons of toys? And this time you’ll know every one of them will go to a deserving child!