Did you know that Alphington Community Centre began as a support service for mums and families? Started by a group of mums it originally ran out of Alphington Primary School and offered serviced like a babysitting club and a toy library - the latter of which still runs today.

In our Toy Library you will find some of the fabulous old puzzles and wooden toys from the 1980s, along with a whole host of newer toys that are suitable for children from 3 months through to primary school.

Our Toy Library costs $45 a year +GST to join - and you can borrow multiple toys every week of school term (that’s 40 weeks a year). Our Toy Library is fully online - so you can book your toys from the convenience of your loungeroom at home, and then pop past on a Tuesday afternoon or a Wednesday morning (when Playgroup is on) to return and collect your toys.

We look forward to welcoming new families to our Toy Library this year - and catching up with our exist Toy Library families as they pop in over the coming weeks.

Join our Toy Library here.

Did you know we have a toy library at ACC?

It is an amazing community resource that has been running for many years.

It costs $45 +gst a year to join and you can borrow up to 4 toys at a time for a 2 week period.

We have a super range of indoor and outdoor toys you can borrow, fist bikes, scooters, walkers, party kits, musical instruments , puzzles and more. Our toys are suitable for children from birth through kinder.

Toy libraries are a great way to try toys out before you buy … and to ensure your house doesn’t become overrun with things. They are also great for the planet 🌍 - reducing waste.

Our toy library is now fully online and you can book your toys anytime, then collect them on Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning.

We have grandparents as members along with parents. Join up today.

Hello Toy Library Members,

Just a quick reminder that we have set the last date for borrowing as this coming Tuesday November 28th.

This allows two weeks of use to return before we close for this year.

The last return date for all toys to be Tuesday 12th of December.

Thank you for using the Toy Library.

Sarah’s last theme blog for the year is:

Got to keep on moving

• Toy cars

• Bikes and ride-ons

• Boats

• Tractor

• Train track

• Plane

• Fire trucks

• Melbourne Tram with people

• Diggers

• Baby swing

• Baby steps walking carts

• Stilt steps

Great to have our local State MP Kat Theophanous pop in this week to talk about our news, the toy library, our AGM etc.

We’ve had some fabulous support from the State Government in the last few years with additional grants and funding.

As you know, we generally get by on the smell of an oily rag, so these one-off investments are amazing opportunities for us …

The Alphington Toy Library has been reinvented online. You can now scroll though all the toys, book them at a time that suits you, then pop past to collect them on Tuesdays.

Find out more and join up here.

This week Sarah (our volunteer who comes along to fill the orders) has put together some borrowing ideas for the theme

‘Do you want to come to my party?

Toys in our library that fit in with this theme include:

• costumes - pirate, fairy, ballerina etc.

• outdoor games - stilts, tunnels, parachute for group activities etc.

• wooden birthday cake

• party set (great for sustainable parties)

• tea set

• board games