Here at Leith Toy Hospital we’ve been helping keep the community cheerful during lockdown, with our window displays, and by sewing scrubs for the NHS. The Big Bear Hunt – the worldwide trend of putting a bear in your window for children to spot on their daily walks – resonated with the staff at the …
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Here at the Leith Toy Hospital we are always very careful with health and hygiene. In the present climate, we thought it would be a good idea to share some of nurse Nancy’s best advice. We wanted to make a serious set of guidelines from the W.H.O become a little less scary for children and …
Many of the toys that come in to Leith Toy Hospital have wonderful stories connected to them, and all of them have special significance to the people they belong to. We’re collecting stories of beloved toys so that they can be preserved and shared. We’re going to create a blog, and eventually an exhibition, with …
Teddy Repair on Junk Rescue by Mari and Emma at Leith Toy Hospital You can now watch Leith Toy Hospital in Action on TV! Leith Toy Hospital was featured in an episode of Junk Rescue for CBeebies. Mari and Emma were filmed repairing the Junk Rescue teddy alongside Danny Sebastian. You can watch us fixing …
Our Annual Leith Festival Teddy Bears’ Pic nic will be on Saturday 15th June 2019 from 11-2. Provided it is dry, we will be on Leith Links by the tennis courts. If it is wet, the pic nic will be here in the studio. We’d love to see you there! Bring along your favourite teddy …
Leith Toy Hospital in the Sunday Post We’re honoured to have found Leith Toy Hospital in the Sunday Post last weekend! It’s been a lot of fun setting up the Toy Hospital and it’s also been very rewarding. It’s so nice to have been noticed like this and we hope to be fixing sick toys …