Classic wooden toy that lets kids hammer colorful pegs through a bench, promoting hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and hours of constructive play.

The Tickle Monster Laughter Kit includes the beloved Tickle Monster book and fuzzy “monster mitts,” inviting families to share giggles and playful bonding through a fun, interactive reading experience.

The Dynamic Frames Li’l Davinci Art Cabinet is a front-opening frame that stores and displays multiple pieces of kids’ artwork, making it easy to showcase and organize their creative masterpieces.

We See You hosts a weekly Tuesday dinner party to serve guests experiencing homelessness and addiction, and extends an offer to help any neighbors who are ready to seek treatment and recovery. Families are encouraged to volunteer to serve at these dinners together, and there are a variety of tasks that are good for kids. Children under 12 must serve with their parent or guardian.

Feeding San Diego provides nourishing meals for the area's food insecure, many of whom are children. Warehouse volunteers help the efforts to save and redirect food that would otherwise go to the landfill with tasks including sorting and packing donated food and produce. Volunteer opportunities in the warehouse are fun, well-organized, meaningful, and extremely welcoming of kids.

In its efforts to beautify San Diego and conserve the natural environment, ILACSD organizes volunteers to remove hundreds of thousands of pounds of debris from the area's coast, canyons, and neighborhoods each year. Community cleanups are held throughout the year and invite volunteers of all ages to participate.

Volunteer families can support the Solana Center's mission of promoting Zero Waste, composting, and water conservation by helping out at a couple of kid-friendly volunteer events held monthly at its home base. Get your hands dirty at the Worm Wranglin' event, which involves feeding and caring for composting worms. Build and Beautify is a day for volunteers to get involved with the development of their home base and support Solana Center programs from the ground up! 

Tomorrow's Heroes Today empowers kids to make a difference in their community. They connect families with the causes they love.

In its mission to prevent and end homelessness, Father Joe's Villages serves the thousands of men, women and children experiencing homelessness in San Diego by meeting basic needs and promoting self-sufficiency. Volunteers are needed for many varied projects including preparing and serving meals.

The San Diego Food Bank has a wide variety of projects that volunteers help support, depending on the day and time they choose to volunteer. Volunteers help us sort and bag food, assemble outgoing food packages, and support the Food 4 Kids Backpack program.

These little backpacks come in variety of animal options, and are perfectly-sized gifts for 2-year-olds to hold their treasures.

This open-ended food toy set includes a cutting board, knife, and veggies that can be sliced and reassembled over and over again.

Hanna Andersson Baby Sleepers are made from soft organic cotton, and the full-length zipper is so convenient and wonderful that the new parents will want to dress baby in them all day long.

Jaws might be an older movie, but it still totally works — even for teens who think they’ve seen it all. The suspense builds so well that everyone ends up holding their breath, and by the end, you’ll probably have the whole family swearing off the ocean for a while.

Signs builds slow, eerie tension as a family on a remote farm starts noticing strange happenings that point to something extraterrestrial. It’s more about suspense and mystery than jump scares, making it a great choice for teens just getting started on scary movies.

Tremors follows a pair of handymen who discover their quiet desert town is being hunted by huge underground monsters. It’s a mix of suspense, laughs, and 90s charm...creepy enough to keep tweens and teens on edge but fun enough that they can’t stop watching.

Gremlins starts off like a cozy Christmas movie, then takes a wild turn when a bunch of mischievous little creatures wreak havoc on a small town. It’s spooky, funny, and just the right mix of creepy and ridiculous for tweens and teens.

This movie version of the beloved holiday performance is based on a production by the Pacific Northwest Ballet, designed by children's author Maurice Sendak. A fun alternative if you can't make it out for a live production this year!