WOODSTOCK — Grady Kellogg is a small boy with a big heart.

In this season of giving, the 9-year-old is collecting toys, coloring books and art supplies for the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center in Portland.

An active fourth-grader at Woodstock Elementary School who keeps busy playing several sports and taking saxophone lessons, Grady hopes the donations will be helpful to children who have to be hospitalized during the holidays.

Although he said he has never had to stay in a hospital, he understands that time can pass slowly for children who have to be away from their family and friends, and usual activities.

He got the idea to help after seeing a YouTube video about a similar effort.

“I was just sitting on the couch, and I saw a video about a toy drive,” Grady said.

Children in the video were collecting toys to donate to a children’s hospital to help young patients pass the time during their hospital stays.

Grady thought about the video for a while, then, he said, “I told my mom I wanted to do a toy drive, too.” His mother, Heather Kellogg, contacted the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital and learned that they would be happy to accept donations of new toys in original packaging for distribution to their pediatric patients.

Grady created large collection boxes for the toys with information about his project posted on the side.

He placed one in the office at his school, and another at We’ve Got the Look, a hair salon on Walkers Mills Road in Bethel that is owned by his aunt, Holly Roberts.

When Grady stopped in at We’ve Got the Look last week, he was excited to see that his collection box was filling up with toys and art supplies.

Roberts told him she had also received a number of cash donations, which she will use to shop for toys and supplies from the list of suggested donations provided by the hospital.

The list includes art supplies like sketch pads, coloring books, crayons, markers, and colored pencils; toy trucks, cars and trains; picture books and board games; play kitchen toys; and rattles and teething toys for infants.

All toys and supplies must be new and in original packaging, and should not be gift-wrapped, although the hospital is also happy to receive donations of wrapping paper and gift bags.

Grady’s collection boxes will be at Woodstock Elementary School and We’ve Got the Look, 920 Walkers Mills Road in Bethel, until Saturday, Dec. 3. After that, he and his family will organize the donations and prepare them for delivery to the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital on the weekend of Dec. 10.