School creates a hospital for fixing toys run by retirees and students

School creates a hospital for fixing toys run by retirees and students

2025-11-10

Sick children get to see doctors, so why not sick toys? Jong-Bu Elementary School in Taoyuan has set up a “toy hospital,” where retired engineers, Taipower employees and plumbers with an average age of over 70 wear white coats and pretend to be doctors as they repair the students’ broken toys. Joining their ranks are some of the schools’ own students. In just four short months, they’ve all successfully repaired as many as 200 toys. Let’s find out more.

Wearing white coats, picking up screwdrivers and carefully removing and inspecting parts, these polished and skillful older adults are toy doctors.

The white-coated doctors that are so diligently repairing the toys are retired engineers and plumbers with an average age of over 70. They work at a “toy hospital” founded by Jong-Bu Elementary School in Taoyuan. The school has trained older adults in hands-on toy repair courses. They work with the school’s students to fix broken toys.

Kao Yu
Student toy doctor
It might be of interest and helpful for the future. Taking these things apart is stress relieving as I can’t take them apart at home. If I did that, I might get scolded by my family.

Lin Hsueh-hsuan
Toy hospital superintendent
It contains batteries, motors, speakers, and circuit boards, so it could cause considerable damage to the environment.

The “toy hospital” has been specially set up for sick toys. Any toys with hard-to-treat diseases can submit a consultation form and be taken to the waiting room. In just four short months, the toy doctors have successfully repaired over 200 toys with a weight of 50kg. They’ve also disassembled more than 150kg of toys for reuse.

Lin Hsueh-hsuan
Toy hospital superintendent
It’s especially suitable for the older adults because they enjoy it so much that there’s almost no need for nursing homes. It’s very helpful for people in their golden years because you’re using your hands as well as your brain.

Hsu Ching-yung
Jong-Bu Elementary School principal
The opportunity for grandparents and children to work together and share this kind of family-style, emotionally-rich education is also an important part of life education. It teaches us how to cherish toys and take care of them.

People in the community have been mobilized so that both older adults with specialized skills and children trained in toy repair can take part. It is because of this group of toy doctors, young and old, that toys that were about to be thrown away are given a second chance at life.

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#Taoyuan #toyrepair #toys #elementaryeducation #fun #school #circulareconomy

桃中埔國小創"玩具醫院"　七旬長者攜手小學生搶救故障玩具

2025-11-10

人生病有醫生治療，但您知道連玩具都能看醫生嗎?桃園市中埔國小創立「玩具醫院」，由平均年齡七十多歲的退休工程師、台電人員、水電技師擔任"爺奶醫生"，攜手小學生們一起搶救故障玩具，短短4個月內，已經成功修復及交換多達200件、重達50公斤的玩具。

穿著白袍，拿起螺絲起子轉動，拆下零件仔細檢查，架式十足的長輩們，是玩具醫生。

這些認真修理玩具們的白袍醫生，由平均年齡七十多歲的退休工程師、水電技師所組成，來自桃園市中埔國小創立的「玩具醫院」，校方透過培訓年長者動手修玩具的課程，攜手小學生們一起搶救故障玩具。

[[學生小醫生高余]]
"對以後的未來可能會有興趣，可能會有幫助。拆這些東西感覺很抒壓，因為在家裡都拆不到，如果拆的話，可能會被家裡的人罵。"

[[玩具醫院院長林學煊]]
“因為它裡面有電池，還有馬達，還有喇叭，還有電路板，這些我想它對我們環境破壞應該是比較大的。"

專門為生病玩具開設的玩具醫院，掛上診療單，有任何疑難雜症的玩具，都能進入候診間，短短4個月內，玩具醫生們已經成功修復及交換多達200件、重達50公斤的玩具，更拆解出超過150公斤的待再利用玩具。

[[玩具醫院院長林學煊]]
"尤其老人家來做很適合，因為大家做得很快樂，幾乎不用養老院了，樂齡人士這一塊很有幫助，因為你動手等於動腦。"

[[桃園中埔國小校長許清勇]]
"有機會跟阿公阿媽、小朋友一起合作分享，這樣的一個家庭式的，這種情感的一個教育，它也是一個生命教育，一個重要的一環。怎麼樣珍惜玩具、愛護它。"

結合社區總動員，除了讓具有專業技能的長輩加入行列，也培訓小朋友一同投入玩具修復工作，因為這群老少玩具醫生，才讓原本即將被丟棄的玩具，又重新活過來。

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