Thanks to everyone who came out for the first Royer’s Kids Club event of 2014.
You can view photos from our Ephrata and West York stores below.
Meanwhile, we have four more events scheduled this year. If you are the parent or guardian of a child ages 5 to 12 who would be interested in participating in one of these events, we encourage you to join the kids club for free by clicking here.
We hope to see your family at Saturday’s Royer’s Kids Club event. But even if you can’t make it, you will have four other opportunities to join us throughout 2014.
Be sure to mark your calendars for these dates and event themes:
March 15: St. Patrick’s Day
June 21: Royer’s Stems Hunger (food drive)
Aug. 23: Back to school
Nov. 1: Bouquets for Books (book drive)
Registration is required for all events, which take place on Saturdays and are open to children ages 5 to 12. Typically we offer sessions at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
To keep up on the latest kids club news and events, join the club by clicking here.
See you soon!
It’s early winter, but spring is the thing at the first free Royer’s Kids Club event of 2014.
At all Royer’s stores on Jan. 18, children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to create a daisy arrangement in a decorative glass jar as shown above. Participants also will receive a balloon.
Time slots are available at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at 17 stores in Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties.
Registration is required by calling your nearest store.
For more information about Royer’s Kids Club, click here.
The final Royer’s Kids Club event of 2013 combines “boos” and bouquets.
In all Royer’s stores on Oct. 26, children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to make a small mum basket and will receive a free balloon.
The event will celebrate Halloween and our annual “Bouquets for Books” book drive to benefit area public libraries. Participants are asked to bring a new children’s book as the price of admission.
Time slots are available at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Registration is required by calling your nearest Royer’s store. Click here for locations and contact information.
For more information about Royer’s Kids Club, visit www.royers.com/kidsclub.
Nat King Cole gave us “Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer.”
The Royer’s Kids Club added “daisy” to the rhyming pattern with its Aug. 17 event. Available in each of our stores, the free event gave children ages 5 to 12 an opportunity to make a Sweet Summer Daisy Bowl arrangement.
The kids club’s final 2013 event is on Oct. 26, when all stores will celebrate Halloween and our annual “Bouquets for Books” book drive to benefit local libraries. We’ll provide more details in the weeks to come.
Paula Egolf is a professional artist, her acrylic paintings having been exhibited at juried shows, galleries and museums.
Apparently she’s also an inspiration to her 10-year old granddaughter Orla Egolf (photo). Orla, a fourth-grader in the School District of Lancaster, is the winner of Royer’s Flowers & Gifts’ 2013 birthday card design contest. Her prize is a flower delivery on her next birthday.
“She’s very much her own person,” Paula Egolf said of Orla. “Since she was a baby, she has always had a very definite bent toward color and design.”
Orla’s design – comprising a cake with candles, bumble bees, smiley-face balloon and, of course, flowers – graces the electronic card that all Royer’s Kids Club members will receive on their birthdays in the coming year.
The Royer’s Kids Club is free to ages 5 to 12. With parental permission, children may register for the kids club at any Royer’s store or online at www.royers.com/kidsclub. Membership benefits include a membership card, Web site activities, an e-mail newsletter, contests and in-store events.
Birthday girls Maddie, left, and sister Annie.
Melissa Castellano is expecting her third child, a boy, in August. When he turns 5, he can join the Royer’s Kids Club.
“If his sisters have anything to say about it,” Melissa quipped.
Sisters Annie, 10, and Maddie, 6, are veterans of the kids club, although the family’s ties to Royer’s run even deeper than that.
When Annie was 3, she attended a holiday open house at our Harrisburg store. It snowed that morning, and to complete the festiveness of the day, Annie won an Advent calendar at the open house.
As Melissa said, Annie “has a bond with the store.”
The girls share August birthdays and like to have their parties together. This year, they wanted a garden party theme – and they wanted to celebrate at Royer’s.
Melissa broached the idea with Harrisburg store manager Shannon Fink at a kids club event. Shannon’s team was more than happy to oblige.
The Castellanos arrived an hour before to set up for the two-hour event. They brought birthday cake and other food, as well as clay pots for the 17 children.
While Annie’s group was eating in the store’s loft, which was decorated as a butterfly garden, Maddie’s party was decorating the pots in the store’s design room.
Melissa’s grandmother died in March, so this was the first time she wasn’t there for Annie and Maddie’s parties. In her honor, the children filled their pots with African violets, the grandmother’s favorite.
The day was a big hit with the birthday girls.
“They loved it,” Melissa said. “The girls said a couple times it was a dream come true to be let loose in a flower shop.”
It’s getting to be back-to-school time, but the Royer’s Kids Club isn’t letting go of summer easily.
For the next free kids club event, on Aug. 17, children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to make a Sweet Summer Daisy Bowl arrangement. Participants also will receive a balloon.
Time slots are available at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at each of Royer’s 17 stores in Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties.
Registration is required by calling your nearest Royer’s store. Visit www.royers.com for locations and contact information.
For more information about Royer’s Kids Club, visit www.royers.com/kidsclub.
We’ve extended the deadline for the Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest until Aug. 7.
Between now and then, download the entry form here, create your birthday card design, and drop it off at your nearest Royer’s.
If we pick your design, we will use it for the birthday card that every kids club member receives on his or her special day. And for winning, you will receive a free flower delivery on your birthday.
So get out your markers and crayons and get drawing!
Would you like to win a flower delivery to your door? You could if you enter the Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest. Kids club member Sophia Mazza’s winning design from 2012.
The winning design will adorn the birthday card that each kids club member receives on his or her special day. If we pick your design, you will receive a flower delivery on your birthday.
The contest is open to kids club members, ages 5 to 12. If you aren’t a kids club member yet, you can register here.
Now, download the birthday card contest entry form here, create your design, and drop off the entry at your nearest Royer’s store by July 12.
Good luck!
