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Donating to Toys for Tots & Story Time w/ the Rivet Reading App

Mar 16, 2024
everyone take a piece of garbage bags and add some for yourselves hello, it's one for you and a piece for me today they gave me a bar. Our goal is to load some trash bags, not with trash but with

toys

, because what are we doing

donating

toys

? We are

donating

a lot of toys today. We have more toys than we know what to do with. Thanks to our YouTube channel, we receive toys all the

time

. We buy a lot of toys for videos and honestly, we're getting to the year where we just have a lot of toys that we haven't unpacked, videos that we haven't had a chance to use and we want to make sure that these toys don't go to waste and get to some kids who might At least a lot of toys for Christmas, birthdays, whatever holiday you celebrate, so we want to bless other children today, last year when we were in Phoenix, we donated to a local charity that collected toys for foster children because, as many of you know, foster.
donating to toys for tots story time w the rivet reading app
Caring is near and dear to our hearts, we fostered and adopted our sweet baby Colin this year. I'm working at a local gym called Iron Tribe and they're collecting kids toys so we thought you know, let's overwhelm my gym. and we will bring a lot of toys that we will donate to Toys for Tots. We have a lot of toys in our toy school. Many of these we are still using. We have a couple of videos that we are going to show. filming this weekend, so we're going to start by donating a bunch of toys in our toy storage room, so we'll go there first and empty it out, you ready Addy, okay, you lead the way, let's go this way, OK?
donating to toys for tots story time w the rivet reading app

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donating to toys for tots story time w the rivet reading app...

What are you, what do you want to start with girls? Okay, how about this mystery machine? We have a bunch of Scooby Doo toys, yeah, in here, let's get them out, yeah, and then we can put them in the bag so we can donate this maya you love your Scooby Doo, right? Yeah, but you know what? But there will be a boy or girl who will love receiving those Scooby-Doo toys. They may not even know what scooby-doo is. but they are going to have a lot of fun because he has a donkey, let's see this. It's like a Scooby-Doo haunted house.
donating to toys for tots story time w the rivet reading app
It's a stupid little haunted ghost town. Wow, we actually had a little email mixed up with this. giant Scooby-Doo clout box, we have two of them, I think one got lost during our move to Nashville, so they sent us another one, so we ended up with two. We'll feature one of them in an upcoming video, but we thought I'd donate the second one, save it, and put it in Miami. We have another really cool line of toys that we featured in a super cool carnival video, but we have so many extras, they're almost alien. babies and they have whole stories about how to care for them, but we have plenty of extras if we're going to take some of these and donate them to kids who would love them.
donating to toys for tots story time w the rivet reading app
Oh, this one is cute, oh, play that one. My bug wants to come get Maddie, they even have entire lines of outfits for them at different stages. You can have like the little babies that you start with and look at this, an orthodontist kit for them and someone would want this shiny, shiny toy. I'm sure they would. Our stack is very big there and our shelf is almost empty. How nice, you feel like Santa Claus delivering toys. How about we do Ooni's next one? Remember these are fun, glue and create toys. I'm going to stack them. some of these there are the num nums we already have three of these so I understand we could donate with my I think we have some more num noms here too let me find them oh yeah, here another puzzle num num puzzle, let's add the tsum tsums to that bag maya here's one, open a favorite one, it's your favorite so I bet you'll like it too.
We have a whole ton of empty square project toys. Let's get a separate bag for project mc square toys. I love these. also because it combines like steam and a lot of femininity so these are great bath bombs oh we have this hand print edible eyeshadow oh yeah oh this is Cameron's cool robot and this is a hoverboard that It looks fun too. You can make the robot and Cameron's. robot made out of a strawberry and the things he gives you, so addie, what toy have you been looking at? And one thing, well, I already put up a toy that I've been looking at which one was, um, it's a troll toy, it's that big. the shiny troll oh you want to show us which one it is let's see oh boy diamond yeah that's a good one but there will be a kid who will love that guy diamond probably more than you would like to add addy jason and I are very intentional and very conscious about making sure the girls understand that there is a clear difference between Maya and Addie toys and tic tac toys.
We source a lot of toys for our business and we want to make sure they understand that they are not for them. We are two young children and I don't think it's healthy for them to feel like they have an endless supply of toys and they get them whenever they want, so it's hard for them to donate some of these toys. These toys have been eyeing you for a long

time

, but they are not yours to keep and we are going to donate them, okay, if we start with the hatchimals now, when I was in the filming room to go look for that diamond, I said that I noticed. another really great Barbie toy, but you know what else?
Addie, there's also a big hatchimal, so I can bring the big hatchimals here and we'll donate the big hatchimals too. This is Barbie's toy. This is one of the toys that I like. too, so I think you'll like it, and then here's the hatchimals toy, let's go okay now, let's go to the top shelf, we have some of these spinners, it looks like fun, let's take all these down, okay, mice, what's the most difficult? toy to get rid of for yourself um, what have you been looking at? I really want to keep the water balloon, the water balloons, the bunch of balloons, yeah, it looks like Addy is going off track and trying on some costumes right now, but Maya, you're still going strong, yeah, okay, when this movie stopped, we have to finish packing some toys, oh are you ready to work, yes, I got so many fun board games, I know people will love the kids, you know it's better not to have tried this, it looks super fun. and we have built our boom, yes, there is another fun one and Domino Junior Friends has dinosaurs.
Oh, Addy is packing up the crepe creatures. These were fun little box shaped creature toys. In fact, they have new ones, in fact, I think they will be arriving in the mail very soon. I think we're going to give away the old ones and then we'll get the new ones. We'll be sure to show them to you before we donate them, maybe later, what's that? Oh yes, I remember receiving it. Oh, it looks great. Sonic Rocket. I know you should have done girls what we should have counted how many toys we are donating, oh yeah so we couldn't know a number to beat next year, that would have been fun, maybe we could just cut up the bags we are donating.
I can try to top it next year, okay, Addy is counting the bags right now, but I don't think we're done because I think there are some things at the toy school that she might want to check out too and donate, we still have to do that. set up, so I can't get rid of everything on the shelves yet, but there may be some things we can add to our bags here, okay, Addy, did you get a final bag total? We have 21 bags, do you know what we have? Now load them into dad's truck. I have to find the keys and we'll load them up so we're ready to take them to my gym.
The van is filling up very quickly. I hope we have enough space for all the bags. that we donate, I think we can make it work, we have more, yes, we have more, what, yes, colin, where are we going to have room for all these bags? Okay, you're going to have to help me reorganize a little because we have to get things underneath. we're not going to have room for the other six bags having too many toys to donate and not enough space is a good problem to have like me fast like me slow like me everywhere I go as crazy as it seems like an important part of our routine at the same time Bedtime is me crawling into the loft bed with the girls and

reading

with them, something we do every night and never skip as a former elementary school teacher.
I am a big advocate of

reading

every day. You have to dedicate those minutes. In reading one of the biggest differences I noticed between students who are good readers and those who struggle to read and of course there are always exceptions but the biggest difference I noticed most of the time was simply in the amount of time they spent reading the number of minutes they read every night at home with their families outside of school, so we made sure to include those minutes and today I'm going to share something really interesting with maya and I would like to share it with you too So you can see that Maya is a great reader, you like to read, don't you, baby?
Yes, she is a very good first kindergarten reader, especially yes, now there is a new app called

rivet

and it is aimed at children from kindergarten to second grade, it is absolutely free and here it is. The interesting part, yes, there are thousands of books on

rivet

that you can read for free, including tic tac toy books, did you know you didn't know? No, if you like to watch our tic tac toy shows, your kids can now read many of our tic tac toy episodes on the rivet app, let's see how maya works, the rivet app is available on the app store or on Play Store and now that you have it open, maya, okay, so here we are on addie's profile so we can come here and click on the YouTube books if we want and look, you can see right here, here's one of our tic tac toy stories.
Sandy is missing, but let's move on from adding to your minus level, we'll click on maya and here they are. suggestions for you, we can go to youtube books again and here are videos from a bunch of youtubers which are now in book form oh i think i saw toy school oh toy school should we read it? Yes, tic tac toy store, the girls are getting toys ready for their first day of school, they are with their favorite teacher, miss lucy, the classroom is full of toys, miss lucy is very excited to greet her new students, miss lucy's special games, but she's on the kids' tables, whoa, water beads, yells maya, that's you.
When the girls finish playing with the water beads, the teacher gives them a fun play dough game. I love Play-Doh Addy and Maya loves playing with Play-Doh. You can create so many cute little things and a really awesome feature is that if there's a word that your child is struggling with, you can click on it and it will sound out the word to help you, so let's try my lips at the end of the day. Miss Lucy gives the girls their homework. Okay, she's reading. The book is great, another cool feature is that you can time the session so that when the kids are in it you time their reading session and as a parent you can log in and see how long they have read so I know you are already in school .
We have a lot of things like reading logs that you need to fill out to know how much time we spent reading, so as a parent you can't know exactly how much time they spent reading and we can record that in your homework block. Get ready, it's very difficult. Do you think we have a fun new nightly reading routine? Yes, I think so too.

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