Teaming up for Tanner Foundation, Inc.

11/28/2025

Right now is the best time to snag some Lego from the stores for the 5th Annual Lego Drive! Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals are about to drop all over the country. Amazon deals can be shipped directly to the drive, Crown Realty has their annual Christmas Party this coming Friday evening where you can donate Lego AND see Santa/receive a goody bag for kids/enjoy the hot cocoa bar and daylight donuts & more (donation not required to attend), or you can donate in person at Appliance Shark or Hometown Sports and finish your new Appliance/sports enthusiast Christmas shopping at either location while you are there!

If you are local to Gardner, you know the hype happening -T.J. Maxx is officially open! While there checking it out with my youngest, we noticed they sell building bricks in the Christmas gift and toy areas for pretty cheap as well!

Hope to see you all on Friday! Happy Shopping!

11/28/2025

11/28/2025

Black Friday + Small Business Saturday deals are HERE at Hometown Sports Gear! 🎉
Save 20–40% off storewide — the perfect time to gear up, shop local, and support your hometown shop. 💛🏒🏈🏀
Come see us in Gardner!

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving! We are immensely grateful for all the support we have received from everyone over the years. Thank you to everyone who continues to show us your kindness, love, and generosity year after year during each of our annual events, through the good days and the rough ones.

We hope you are able to sit down, relax, and appreciate the meaning of today - stuffed beneath the stress of the turkey dinner and the chaos that is typical of this time of year.

If you are experiencing your first Thanksgiving or your 50th without someone you love, we are hopeful that this day will be gentle for you. Take moments for remembering the good, and the moments to cry when needed. There is no shame in grieving. There is no timeline for healing, and holidays are especially difficult.
Hugs to everyone.

Love to all today -
The McCullough Family

11/25/2025

15 days left in the 5th Annual Lego Drive! We have received a few more Amazon packages and some monetary donations through the website. I will give you all a count of how much was donated and how many kits we were able to purchase with then at the end of the drive! Thank you all for all the donations so far this year!!

https://a.co/gV44PYK

11/21/2025

Have you been to visit the Hometown Sports Gear store here in Gardner yet? Whether you need new cleats for your kiddos before spring soccer, a new basketball or volleyball, or some new clothes with the logo of your Gardner teams... they have a great selection for all your needs!

While you are there, you can drop off any Lego donations in person if you wish! They have partnered with us this year to have a drop box at their location.

You can find them over by La Carreta and ExBEERiment :)

Hometown Sports Gear

Hometown Sports Gear is a locally-owned sporting goods store in Gardner, KS. We specialize in high-quality sporting goods for boys and girls youth sports.

11/13/2025

My most recent count of Lego donations received via Amazon or handed directly to me is ****drumroll****

42!!!! That is a pretty good number for one month into the drive!

Our goal each year is 1 Lego kit per bed in the inpatient rooms of the hospital. CMH has 390 beds at the Adele Hall Campus. Lego Donations are used every year for a huge variety of reasons.... the Child Life staff count on them as prizes for kids during treatments and surgeries, as enticements for taking horrible medications or undergoing rough times, and to help fill boring hours/days/weeks/ and sometimes months of being bedridden in the hospital.

Every year the staff at CMH work magic for the kids stuck in their rooms for the holidays. They have events like Holiday Bingo night and they do a surprise Christmas delivery for the kids that experience Christmas Eve and Christmas morning in the hospital. No kid wants to be in a hospital bed for Christmas.

Your donations go a long way in helping us make the magic a little easier for them each year. We appreciate you more than you know ❤️

Here is the Amazon Link again if anyone would like to share it 😊
https://a.co/gV44PYK

10/31/2025

Donations are coming in!!! I am unsure if we have any donations at the in person locations, but as of the end of October we are up to 22 lego kits for CMH! Thank you to everyone who has already donated to us this year 💖

10/28/2025

DID YOU KNOW? LEGO DRIVE FAQ:

The 2025 Lego Drive has 3 public drop off locations this year!

1. CROWN REALTY in Gardner (Open 9-F M-F. Stay tuned for more information about their Christmas Party/Lego Drive on Dec 5!)
2. HOMETOWN SPORTS GEAR in Gardner (Open 10-7 M-Th, 9-5 F-Sat, & 9-12 Sun).
& 3. APPLIANCE SHARK on Shawnee Mission Parkway (Open 8-6 M-F and 10-4 Sat).

If you aren't local, or able to leave home, but would still like to donate:

1. You can search through our public Amazon wishlist for ideas and directly ship purchases to the drive: https://a.co/gV44PYK (Amazon frequently has great deals on Lego, especially around cyber Monday and Black Friday)
2. You can go make a direct monetary donation towards the purchase of lego kits: https://share.google/VhhvXtNH4j9DyVqTo
At the end of the drive, we will see what types of Lego we think we still need (Duplos for younger children, Lego friends kits, smaller kits for prize boxes at the hospital, etc). We will share how much was monetarily donated and how many kits we were able to purchase with those funds.

10/12/2025

10/11/2025

Due to the schedule for donations at Children's Mercy Hospital, today kicked off the 5th Annual Lego Drive!!! We added a second Gardner drop location not yet listed on the website that will be at Hometown Sports Gear (open into the evenings and on weekends!), but all the rest of the information about how and where to donate is listed in the images or on the web page, including the Amazon link for online donations.

We are excited for another year of collecting Lego Kits in the "Turtle Tank" camper to donate to Children's Mercy Hospital for the holidays!

Thank you all for helping us be able to continue this each year in memory of Tanner. Every donation is a blessing to a child in the hospital and to our family's hearts.

"Fill the Turtle Tank" Lego Drive - Teaming Up For Tanner Foundation, Inc. https://share.google/nAYtnioWBFK9TpAxe