DPC Toy Library

🧸 DPC Toy Library will be open this Sunday, 8 Feb, from 10am–12pm.
Browse, borrow, and return toys at your own pace — members can borrow up to 5 toys.

New to our Toy Library? You’ll need to fill out a quick online form when you’re at DPC before borrowing, as it’s a different system from Hivepass. It only takes a couple of minutes!

🪄 Dress-up time! We’ve added costumes to our toy library — just in time for Halloween! 🧙‍♀️🎃
Members can borrow them for free, up to 5 items total (toys or costumes). 🧸💫

Come and check it out! 155 Kenmure Road, Mornington. Open during playgroup times.

DPC Toy Library is open this Sunday from 10am to 12pm. Come and browse our large selection of toys. Parent Centre members are free to borrow up to 5 toys per family.

Toy Library Awareness Week started from 2nd of March.

🚗🎀Fun Facts about Toy Libraries🌏💛:
*Toy libraries have been around since the early 1930s, with the first official toy library established in Los Angeles in 1935.

*Today, toy libraries can be found in over 40 countries, promoting access to a variety of toys for children of all ages.

*The concept of toy rotation, central to toy libraries, helps enhance a child's cognitive and emotional development by introducing new stimuli regularly.

*Toy libraries contribute to sustainability by promoting the reuse of toys, reducing plastic waste and the environmental impact of manufacturing new toys.

*Toy library memberships provide families with cost-effective access to a wide range of toys, reducing the financial burden of constantly buying new toys.

*Toy libraries emphasise the importance of quality play over accumulating a large number of toys, encouraging thoughtful and intentional play.

Our toy library will be open tomorrow during DPC's weekend playgroup from 10am to 12pm. Come and enjoy playgroup and browse our large selection of toys. DPC members borrow toys for free and up to 5 toys per person. Ask about joining if you aren’t a member already!

Our volunteers have been working hard to improve and expand on the selection of toys on hand and have been going through our inventory to sort and repair toys with broken or missing pieces. If you found a piece at home and it was from a toy hired from DPC, feel free to drop it off to us no matter how long it has been!

We are open this Sunday from 3.30 to 4.30pm for toy returns/borrowings.

DPC toy library is open today from 3.30 to 4.30pm for hiring and returns. Free hires for DPC members and a small hire fee for each toy for casual users. Speak to our volunteer for more information.

We are located at 155 Kenmure Road, Mornington.