Healthy U

12/13/2025

Lots of fun happening at Healthy U until 5pm today!

$5-15 sliding scale admission

12/13/2025

✨ TODAY’S THE DAY! ✨
Winter Magic Festival is happening today and you’re invited to step into a cozy, joy-filled winter wonderland ❄️

📷 Photo Booth with printed Keepsake photo from Bigfoot Print & Copy
🎶 Community Caroling at 3pm
🔥 Amazing Raffle Prizes
☕️ Gift Cards to Dutch Bros as door prizes
🎨 Kid-friendly crafts to take home
🥖 Local mulled cider & delicious treats
💛 Community, connection, and winter joy

Bring the kids, bring a friend, or come just as you are. Stay for a few minutes or all afternoon—this celebration is about togetherness and creating sweet memories.

📍 Healthy U - 535 E River St.
🕒 1-5 pm

Tag someone who should come with you and we’ll see you soon! ✨❄️
Like and share to help us get the word out!

12/12/2025

You could win some great prizes at the Winter Magic Festival this Saturday! Enter our raffle for your chance to go home with:

-One of 25 $10 Gift Cards from Dutch Bros. Coffee
-An adorable matching knitted hat and jar holder (pictured) and other handmade gifts by Patti Culver
-A pound of Trail Busters from Taylor's Sausage
-One of 2 $25 Gift Cards to Lil' Pantry
-$25 Gift Card to Shop Smart
-$25 Gift Certificate to River Valley Restaurant
-A Bouquet of Flowers from Singing Lark's Farm
-A One-Hour Massage from Froggy
-A Beauty Package from Northwest Hairlines

The Winter Magic Festival is all about the spirit of Giving, and we are beyond grateful to our community sponsors for their willingness to give these great prizes ... to YOU!

Be sure to come on down to Healthy U on Saturday between 1-5pm for your chance to enter.

12/08/2025

✨❄️ WINTER MAGIC FESTIVAL – COMMUNITY CAROLING AT 3PM! ❄️✨
One of our favorite parts of the day is absolutely the Community Holiday Caroling happening at 3:00pm, and we want YOU there!

We’ll be singing:
🎄 Classic Christmas favorites
🌙 Beautiful earth-based & pagan winter tunes
🔄 A fun, lively round (yes, we’re going to try it!)
🕎 And if someone wants to lead us in a few Hanukkah songs—we would love that!

✨ Lyrics will be provided — all you need to bring is your voice.
Every voice counts. Every voice makes the magic brighter.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a shower singer or a choir regular… please come sing with us! 💛

Got a favorite winter or holiday song you’d love to hear?
🎶 Drop it in the comments!

Can’t make it to the festival?
💬 Like, comment, and share this post to spread the word
💛 And consider making a small donation to support the mission of All Around Kids Community Preschool—your gift helps us keep high-quality, sliding-scale early childhood education accessible in a childcare desert.

We can’t wait to raise our voices together. ❄️✨
See you at 3pm for some community harmony!

12/06/2025

❄️✨ Winter Magic Festival is almost here! ✨❄️
Bundle up the kiddos and come make some cozy memories with us!

Join us for an afternoon filled with:
✨ Winter crafting fun — simple, nature-based projects perfect for little hands
🍪 Delicious treats & warm drinks
📸 A beautiful winter photo booth to capture those seasonal smiles

Bring your family, bring your friends, and come soak up the magic of community, creativity, and winter wonder. All ages welcome!

📅 Date: Saturday, December 13th 1:00-5:00pm Drop in anytime!
📍 Location: Healthy U / All Around Kids Community Preschool

Let’s celebrate the season together! ❄️💙

Even if you can't make it, you can help support a great cause by liking and sharing this post, and following us as well as the All Around Kids Community Preschool page.

12/02/2025

Today is Giving Tuesday, a global day of generosity and reciprocity for the communities we live in and that support us.

For over 14 years, Healthy U has been supporting the minds, bodies, and hearts of the Illinois Valley. All Around Kids Preschool is currently a big part of that mission as we aim to make early childhood education accessible to ALL local families.

A donation today of any amount allows us to provide a sliding scale tuition, helping to ease the financial burden many families face.

You can make a monetary donation under the Family Payment Portal:
https://www.healthyucenter.org/all-around-kids-community-preschool.html

Financial donation not feasible?
We totally get it.

Other ways you can give back during this season of giving include supporting our upcoming Winter Magic Festival! ❄️⛄

We need:
Baked goodies
Meat and cheese platter
Donated craft Items for Sale

To support our festival, reach out to our Children and Families Program Director, Chelsea:
chelsea.healthyu@gmail.com

Thank you for your support! 💚

11/30/2025

💛 A Different Kind of Holiday Celebration
At the Winter Magic Festival, we’re shifting the holiday focus from “What am I getting?” to “What can I create and share?”
On December 13th from 1–5pm, families can drop in anytime to craft gifts, make decorations, enjoy hot cider, and soak in the feel-good energy of giving.
This event supports sliding-scale tuition at All Around Kids Community Preschool, helping local families access high-quality childcare—more important than ever as statewide ERDC currently funding falls short, even for families who qualify.
Come be part of something meaningful. 🌟

11/24/2025

🎉 Winter Magic Festival is back! ❄️✨
Join us on Saturday, December 13th, from 1–5pm (drop in anytime!) for a joyful afternoon of crafting, cider-sipping, photo-taking, and community connection at Healthy U.

We’re inviting children and families to experience the joy of giving this holiday season by creating handmade gifts and decorations.

🌿 Nature-based ornament making
🖍️ Holiday greeting card stamping
📸 Seasonal family photo booth
🍎 Hand-pressed hot apple cider from local apples
🎨 Face painting
🧸 Play area for littles

Sliding scale $5–15 per person, kids under 3 free, and no one turned away.

All proceeds support All Around Kids Community Preschool, providing sliding-scale tuition for local families who need high-quality early childhood care.

Let’s make magic together. 💫

11/17/2025

🌈 Preschool Openings! Ages 3–5 🌈
All Around Kids Community Preschool has a few spots open — and we'd love for you to come be a part of the magic

If you want a preschool where your child is loved, respected, and encouraged to explore, this is it.
✨ Play-based learning
✨ Conscious Discipline guidance
✨ Art, music, nature, & sensory play
✨ Warm, skilled teachers
✨ A true School Family

📍 Located at Healthy U (behind the Family Coalition)
💛 Sliding Scale Option for Enrollment Fee & We accept ERDC
💬 Call us today to set up a tour!
🎨 Or, apply here, and we'll call you: https://forms.gle/uqhoK82JzsgatKL9A

Give your child a place to grow, connect, and shine. 🌟

11/17/2025

🌟 Calling All Parents & Grandparents of Little Ones! 🌟
Looking for something fun, connection-filled, and developmentally magical to do with your young child? Come join us for Music & Magic at Healthy U — a cozy, joyful parent-child playgroup held right inside our preschool space!

🧸 Mondays | 10:30–12:00
📍 535 E. River Street

For the first hour, your child gets to explore open-ended, high-quality play invitations while you get support from a skilled facilitator who models how to:
✨ support sharing
✨ guide turn-taking
✨ help little ones build friendships
✨ join their play in meaningful ways

Then in the last 30 minutes, we gather for everyone’s favorite part — Music Time!
We sing classics like:
🎶 Down by the Bay
🦕 We Are the Dinosaurs
🌹 Ring Around the Rosy
…and more songs that get kids giggling, moving, and connecting.

It’s a perfect chance to bond with your child, meet other local families, and play in a nurturing environment built just for early childhood.

Drop in anytime — we’d love to see you! You can come late or leave early (no judgment here!)
💛 Come make a little magic with us this Monday

11/05/2025

Zumba at Healthy U with Molly Rose starts tomorrow, Thursday, November 6th from 6 to 7 PM! 💃

Get out of the rain and melt stress away during an hour of dance-based fitness. First class is always FREE!

10/30/2025

The Illinois Valley Family Coalition will be taking food pantry donations!

By ILLINOIS VALLEY FAMILY COALITION