Nintendo Wii controllers, memory cards, and games (no mature) - especially physically interactive games
Board games - all ages, bean bag toss game
Books, videos/DVDs, CDs, Playstation 2 games (PG-13 or below); PS2 memory cards
Gift cards – WalMart, Old Navy, Best Buy, Hastings, Target, etc.
Long distance phone calling cards – small minutes each for youth to call families
Craft kits & scrapbook items
Gift certificates to activities - skating, movies, etc.
Gift certificates to restaurants, - McDonald’s, etc.
Magazine subscriptions sent to office – sports, cars, teen girls, metal edge, Seventeen, etc.
General Gift Ideas for Teens:
Watches – boy and girl · Jewelry – boy and girl · Selection of music CDs (no mature)
Nintendo Game Boys or other personal game system and games
Perfume & cologne – boy & girl
Digital cameras
Almost all asking for iPod – even the $49 shuffle; or similar MP3 player; requesting with video
blank recordable CDs
Almost all asking for laptop computers! (which is appropriate for TLP clients in college)
Hair, makeup, personal hygiene products (boy & girl), including specifically for African Americans, bath products & froufrou stuff, lip gloss & chapstick
House shoes / slippers – NEW only
Sweat shirts/pants, winter coats, hats, gloves, etc.
flannel pajama bottoms - NEW only
Hoodies, boy & girl, various sizes
Journals, small scrapbooks
Art supplies - colored pencils, water soluble art pens, brush pens, pastel pencils, sketch pads, colorless blender, compressed charcoal in pencil form (colored), pencils - 1HB, 12B, 14B; other "real" art supplies
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