Category: Kids Club
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Barnes & Noble, Midtown Scholar lending support for Royer’s annual children’s book drive
A couple of familiar names are helping us write a new chapter in the history of our annual children’s book drive. Book stores Barnes & Noble and the The Midtown Scholar are lending their support to the 2015 edition of Bouquets for Books, which collects new children’s books for area public libraries. The event runs…
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Kids club event Oct. 31 helps kick off book drive for public libraries
It’s boos and bouquets Oct. 31 when we kick off our annual children’s book drive with a kids club event. Children ages 5 to 12 are asked to bring a new children’s book as the price of admission. Participants will get to make a fall arrangement (photo) and will receive a balloon. Because the event coincides…
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Head of the class: photos from our back-to-school kids club event
Judging from these beautiful, smiling faces at Royer’s Kids Club’s back-to-school event on Aug. 22, these children are rested and ready for a challenging and rewarding new school year. Thanks to all of the participants. We wish you the very best and encourage you to use every day as an opportunity to learn something new.…
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Sixth-grader Kaitlynn Balmer-Brown wins Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest
Kaitlynn Balmer-Brown has been dancing since age 3, studying jazz, tap and ballet. She also expresses herself through art, drawing graffiti-like designs on paper. “She was good in art class,” said her stepmother, Emily Brown. And she was plenty good enough to win the Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest. The Lower Paxton Township…
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Royer’s Kids Club celebrates start of new school year with free event Aug. 22
Before they go back to school, they can go back to the Royer’s Kids Club. We’ll celebrate the start of a new school year with a free kids club event Aug. 22 in each of our 16 stores. Children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to create an arrangement adorned with a…
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Kids club: books for families to read aloud together
As we noted in the June 2015 issue of the Royer’s Kids Club newsletter, Buds, it’s important to keep reading and learning even during summer vacation. Here’s an expanded version of a list of books that families can read aloud together that we touched on in Buds: “Mr. Popper’s Penguins” by Richard and Florence Atwater…
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Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest runs now through July 17
We’re looking for budding artists to enter our annual birthday card design contest. The winning design will adorn the Royer’s Kids Club birthday card, which will be emailed to all kids club members on their birthdays. (You can see last year’s winning card to the left.) The artist will receive free flowers on his or her…
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Royer’s Kids Club event June 20 to kick off annual ‘Stems Hunger’ food drive
Royer’s Flowers & Gifts’ annual food drive – Royer’s Stems Hunger – will take place June 20-27 to benefit the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank and the Greater Berks Food Bank. Royer’s Kids Club will help out with a special event on June 20 for children ages 5 to 12. They are asked to donate a…
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Royer’s food drive back for fifth year, June 20-27
Royer’s Stems Hunger, our annual food drive, will return June 20-27 to benefit the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank and the Greater Berks Food Bank. Customers who donate a non-perishable food item during the event will receive a free carnation, up to six flowers per family per visit. The food drive will be the theme of…
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Royer’s Kids Club spring reading list
Every November, Royer’s holds a weeklong children’s-book drive to benefit area public libraries. To encourage the reading habit, we include a reading list in each quarterly issue of our Royer’s Kids Club newsletter, Buds. Many baby animals arrive in spring, which is the focus of our latest reading list, courtesy of Heather Smith, youth services…