Icebreaker Acitivities

Icebreaker Activities

Human Scavenger Hunt
Each person is given a list of experiences or characteristics. Each person must find another person to fill in the blanks on their scavenger hunt page.

What’s in Your Bag?
Divide room into 4-5 groups, depending on size you might want more groups. Give each group a list. On go, each group member must try to find the items on the list in their bag. Each item has a point value. Points are added up at the end of the game and the winning group gets the prize.

Teambuilding Activities

This week some of our directors will be presenting a workshop on teambuilding. The teambuilding games will be posted here post conference so attendees may have access to them. Feel free to use them with your own teams!

Boulders village gives back

During the two week break from pubic school, the Village participated in community service programs that we called Rainbow Station Gives Back. In an effort to give to those less fortunate, we created partnerships with some local non-profits, including Richmond SCAN, St. Joseph’s Villa, Make-A-Wish, and St. Frances House.
Throughout December, the children participated in projects that would extend their awareness of these groups and allow us to build connections to these key groups. For example, St. Joseph’s Village works with disabled children . Through our donation of children’s toys and games, we were able to reach out to those children and share our favorite activities. With St. Frances House, the primary population is senior adults. This children sang holiday songs and shared home-made ornaments with the residents in an afternoon visit.


A great, big thanks to all the families who helped this program to be successful! Whether you gave snacks for SCAN, games for St. Joseph’s, or attended our visit to St. Frances, your support of this worthwhile projects is much appreciated.


We will continue to partner with each of these groups throughout the rest of the year, adding care packages for troops stationed overseas to the list.

We hope to continue this tradition next year as well, shifting our focus to other groups who can use our assistance.

Village Kids and Good Values

Congratulations to Hanover Village 6 Star Students!

Claire W.
Jayson N.
Scott B.
Audriana A.
Ryan H.
Jordan F.


Why are they star students?

They have been of service in the Village.
They successfully complete homework on time at homework time.
They have exceeded the expectation in bahavior expectations.

Good job kids! Thank you for being great role models and making us proud.
-Ms. Taylor, Village Director

Breast Cancer Awareness and PINK DAY!

Yes, we asked everyone to wear PINK for our annual pink day at Rainbow Station Hanover.

October is SIDS Awareness Month

October is SIDS Awareness Month Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the unexplained sudden death of an infant under one year of age. As the leading cause of death in children between one month and one year of age, SIDS is something every child care worker, parent, and caregiver should know about. Child care workers should be especially vigilant, as a disproportionate amount of SIDS deaths occur in child care settings: 20% of SIDS deaths occur in these settings, but based on the time that children spend in child care, that number should only be around 9%.

http://www.aap.org/healthtopics/Sleep.cfm.

We have LOADS of candy to treat!

Join us this Saturday from 5-9 at any one of our Rainbow Station Village locations in Richmond to treat yourself to loads of candy at our annual Trunk or Treat! Bring your kids in their costumes and trick or treat at the schools and decorated trunks. Games, prizes, food, music, haunted trails, and MORE!

We have three locations for you to join us.

HANOVER:
8216 Atlee Rd. (beside Memorial Regional Medical Center)
Mechanicsville, VA

WEST END:
11001 Three Chopt Rd. (Three Chopt and Cox Roads)
Richmond, VA

SOUTHSIDE:
7421 Boulder Springs Dr. (behind Pearson Honda on Midlothian Tpke)
Richmond, VA