Tired of a bunch of toys in your house, which were used for 10 minutes before being discarded, never to be played with again? Suspect your kid is losing touch with reality, thinking they must consume consume consume? Well, MN Toy Library is the remedy.
- Website: mntoylibrary.org
- Address: Richfield Lutheran Church 8 West 60th Street Minneapolis, MN 55419
Northeast United Methodist Church 2510 Cleveland St NE Minneapolis, MN 55418
Progressive Baptist Church 1505 Burns Ave St. Paul, MN 55106 - Hours: Limited hours, check website for updates.
- Cost: $40/year minimum.
- Ages: all ages
Details
$40/year minimum gets you 5 toys at a time, no due dates, just bring them back and get 5 more. They have two locations in Minneapolis, one in Saint Paul, each with multiple rooms stocked floor to ceiling with well labelled and organized toys, the vast majority of which are complete sets of what you need, with working batteries. Dolls, action figures, cars, trampolines, strider bikes, lawn bowling, puzzles, costumes, instruments, educational toys, legos, blocks, infant things, etc. They have pre-made “travel bags” to bring along on road trips or on the plane, oriented to different age ranges.
They are an excellent place to donate all those toys you bought before finding out about the toy library, or that your in-laws keep gifting you, or your friends with the older kids keep dumping on you as they empty out their basements.