Toy drive flyers
Three lines decide whether a toy drive collects things children actually receive: ages, unwrapped, and by when.
Every organisation running a toy drive learns the same lessons in the same order. Donors buy for the age they imagine, which is almost always five to eight, so the drive ends up with nothing for babies and nothing for teenagers. Donors wrap things, which means the receiving charity cannot sort them by age or check what is inside. And donors bring things in the last three days, which leaves no time to distribute.
All three are solved on the flyer. Print the age brackets that are actually short, name teenagers explicitly because they are always the gap, and say "unwrapped, please" with a short reason so it does not read as ingratitude. The reason matters: people wrap because they think it is kinder, and they stop when they understand it prevents sorting.
The deadline needs to be earlier than feels natural and set as a real element on the page. A drive that closes on the twentieth and distributes on the twenty-third has three days for sorting, transport and delivery, and that is genuinely tight. Print the close date large, and mean it.
$125
Flat, for one flyer designed for your event. Print-ready PDF tested in black and white, an email version, and square and story sizes. One round of revisions, back in four days.
Where this flyer actually lands
School bags, church foyers, office kitchens and shop counters, often with a collection box sitting under the flyer. The box is the distribution: most donors see the flyer at the moment they see the box, which is why the flyer has to answer everything on its own without a follow-up conversation.
What changes for this one
Age brackets set as a scannable list, with the short ones marked. The unwrapped instruction gets a line of its own with its reason attached. Close date set as prominently as the headline. Festive but high-contrast, because these are photocopied constantly.
What it has to carry
- Age ranges needed, with the short ones flagged, and teenagers named explicitly
- Unwrapped, and one short line saying why
- The close date, prominent
- Where the collection box is, precisely
- Who receives the toys, named
The mistakes worth avoiding
- No age guidance, so the drive drowns in toys for six-year-olds and has nothing for infants or teens.
- Not asking for unwrapped gifts, which makes sorting by age impossible for the receiving charity.
- A soft deadline, leaving no time to sort and deliver.
- Not naming the receiving organisation, which is what makes people give.
- Forgetting to say where the box actually is inside the building.
Questions people ask
Why do we have to ask for unwrapped toys?
So the receiving charity can sort by age and check suitability. Say that on the flyer; donors wrap out of kindness and stop as soon as they understand why it does not help.
Which ages are usually short?
Infants and teenagers, every year, at almost every drive. Naming both explicitly on the flyer is the single most useful thing it can do.
Can you reuse our food drive design?
Yes, and running the year's drives off one design is much cheaper per piece. The structure is the same; the list and dates change.
What sizes do we get?
Letter-size print-ready PDF, a half sheet for handouts, and square and story versions, all laid out rather than cropped.
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US searches a month for toy drive flyers, measured rather than guessed.
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