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Your Donation Matters

When you donate to the Peoria PlayHouse Children’s Museum, you’re investing in a place where imagination thrives, curiosity is sparked, and lifelong learning begins. Your support helps bring hands-on exhibits and creative programming to life, inspiring children to explore, experiment, and dream. With your generosity, we can reach more children, foster a love for learning, and create moments that families will cherish forever. Join us in making an impact—because every child deserves a place where wonder knows no limits.

If you would like to donate by mail, please send your donation to the Peoria Park District Development Office, Peoria Park District, 1125 W Lake Avenue, Peoria, IL 61614. If you have questions or need assistance, or would like information about sponsoring a specific program or exhibition through a donation, or the benefits of becoming a major donor, please contact the PlayHouse Director, Melissa Sierra at 309.681.2853.

SUPPORT THE PLAYHOUSE

Support curiosity, creativity, and community by sponsoring Nature Niños at the Peoria PlayHouse Children’s Museum. This engaging program invites preschool-aged children (ages 3-5) and their caregivers to discover the wonders of our world through hands-on maker and S.T.E.A.M. activities, movement, and interactive storytelling. By incorporating Spanish vocabulary, songs, and stories, Nature Niños fosters a love for language and inclusivity from an early age. Your sponsorship helps us create enriching, bilingual experiences that nurture curiosity and celebrate cultural connections. Join us in inspiring the next generation to explore, learn, and grow!

The PlayHouse is committed to serving ALL families, regardless of income. The PlayHouse Explorer Program offers reduced-price admission and membership for qualifying families. Your gift will help ensure that the power of play is accessible to all children of Peoria!

Prescription for Play is a partnership between the Peoria PlayHouse Children’s Museum and OSF HealthCare to ensure that all children in the greater Peoria area have access to developmentally critical play.

Our Real Tools maker space teaches children how to make and how to invent. It challenges young creatives to use tools and identify the best tools for the task they want to complete. Each child gets the opportunity to work on something different while facilitators help children make meaningful choices during the making process, fostering innovation and creativity. Your gift will help children continue to engage in making!

For kids, play is much more than fun and games. It’s how they learn and grow. To ensure a healthy and vibrant future for Peoria, we advocate for the importance of play as essential for children’s learning, health, and development. Your gift will help ensure that children can continue to play, learn, and grow during every visit to the PlayHouse!

Donate Materials

The PlayHouse is always in need of recyclables and other materials. Here is more information about our current needs. Thank you!

Donate Recyclables

The PlayHouse welcomes in-kind donations of materials and services, including safe, clean, non-toxic manufacturing scraps and household recyclables. Here is a list of some of the things we are looking for, but we take anything clean that you might throw out or recycle that could become art!

Have something to donate but not sure if we’ll take it? Email Kylan Butler at kbutler@peoriaparks.org

FIND LIST OF DONATION ITEMS HERE