2018 Blue Dot Robot's Annual Toys for Tots Puzzle Drive
Wow - we did it. You are all amazing! You all donated 74 cases - thank you a million times over for your generosity. I know this was incredibly meaningful for a lot of little ones on Christmas morning! To top that off, I matched your donations so your 74 cases became 148. This means your 444 kids became 888!
And thank you, again, to everyone that’s participated in this. It’s a wonderful thing that you’ve done.
xoxo
BEST YEAR EVER! THANK YOU!
With your help, we can make sure more kids will have at least one wonderful gift this holiday season. Simply purchase one case of 6 puzzles. We’ll provide you with your donation receipt and we’ll deliver the case to the local Toys for Tots donation center. It’s that easy. The hardest part will be deciding which puzzle to choose!
Click here to read about the history of the drive.
Help us make this our best Toys for Tots donation year EVER!
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History of our Toys for Tots Annual Puzzle Drive:
Just before the Christmas season of 2016, I was reflecting on the season and feeling a bit sad that I couldn’t do more in the way of giving. I love to give: time to Habitat for Humanity, a few dollars at the PetSmart register to help animal shelters.. you name it. I just love to help out. But specifically, there are these amazing puzzles we have here and kids we know would love them; kids who may not otherwise have a gift to look forward to. But how do you do that when you’re such a TINY business? Then it occured to me: you partner with friends, family and customers!
The first year, it only occured to me a few short days before the cutoff that we could contribute in this way. So with only 3 days to work with, I sent out a word-of-mouth email and asked folks to tell folks they knew. We ended up with 37 cases for donation. That was 222 kiddos that had at least one present for Christmas! The lovely man at Toys for Tots was astounded when he saw what I was bringing. It was delightful!
Year two was very similar. There was a move in the T4T donation date which clashed with some travel I needed to do. So, again, not much time to get the word out. Even still, with the help of you amazing givers, we managed to end up with 39 cases. That’s 234 kids with a present to open. How amazing is that?!
A quick note about how this works.
- The donation is one you’re making to Toys For Tots so the receipt will reflect that. Please keep it for your records.
- Blue Dot Robot is selling a case of 6 puzzles for just over the cost to make the puzzles. (exactly $1 more in order to give the artists a small earning per box) We’re foregoing any profit to help share these little beauties.
2017 Toys for Tots
2017 Toys for Tots donations starting to add up!
2017 Toys for Tots
2017 Toys for Tots boxes being loaded up to take to T4T.
2016 Toys for Tots
2016 Toys for Tots donation getting loaded up for delivery!
