Seasonal & Holidays

Toys For Tots 2025: How To Help In Howard County

Sign-ups have opened to volunteer, donate, host an event or a drop box for Toys for Tots 2025, as well as for kids to be a recipient.

HOWARD COUNTY, MD — While you’re checking off holiday gift lists for family members and friends, don’t forget the kids who aren’t on anyone’s shopping list and pick up some items for the Toys for Tots campaign across Howard County.

Last year in Howard County, Baltimore City, Baltimore and Carroll counties, 86,238 toys were distributed to 32,012 children who might not otherwise have gotten any Christmas gifts. Nationally, Toys for Tots provided 30 million toys to nearly 13 million children in need, marking a record-breaking year for the program.

You can request toys by signing up online, sponsor an event, volunteer with the program, be a local corporate sponsor or become a toy drop site here. Sign-up has already start for the holiday program for children benefitting from the program. Toy donations will be accepted through Dec. 13.

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To view toy donation sites in Howard County, scroll to the bottom of this page.

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