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Preparing Your Family Home Child Care Environment For a Summer of Fun!

Summer is almost here and I want to inspire you to create a summer time environment that you, the children and the parents will love!

Most home providers care for a mixed age group of children and this blog post has been created to give you ideas for children between the age of one to twelve years of age.

Are you ready to discover how to create a summer time environment for the children in your care? Here are five fun and enriching ways to give your family home childcare environment a summer time look:

1. Add a Wading Pool in the Reading Area. This is a great way to create a cool space for reading. Be sure to add some pillow, lots of summer time books and stuffed animals for the young toddlers to hold.

2. In the Dramatic Play area add the following items for pretend play: sunglasses, empty sun tan lotion bottles, swim wear, flip-flops, beach bags, sun hats,etc. If your space is limited, use a large basket or storage container for the items.

3. Add a large beach towel on the floor for block building. Encourage the children to build on or around the beach towel. It will be cool to encourage them to build with sunglasses on!

4. Give your parent bulletin board a summer time look by adding orange paper as a background with yellow border. Also, use sun templates as the heading for menus, lesson plans and parent news.

5. Add boats or  people to your water table for indoor/outdoor water fun! ***To assure a healthy experience, be sure that the children wash their hands before and after water play. If you do not have a water table; use two dish washing pails.

Want more ideas? Be sure to check out the Summer Camp ePlanning Guide!

I look forward to your thoughts about this blog post.

Have a Fun and Safe Summer!

Shiketa Morgan

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Family Child Care, Summer Program

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Activity Ideas For an Earth Friendly Child Care Program

On Friday April 13, 2012, my staff and I were preparing the upcoming theme of “Earth Day” at my childcare facility. Our objective for the theme is to teach the children how to become earth friendly. I thought I would share some of those ideas with you and the activities are as follows:

Circle Time

During circle time pose an earth friendly question of the day such as; Why do we need trees? Be ready for creative responses and ideas!

Sensory Table

Add water, boats, fish and people to water. This is a great way to promote outdoor water activities such as: fishing and pedaling boats. Idea: Ask the kids if it is better for the earth to use a boat with gas or a boat with pedals?

Science

Add a picture of a windmill and discuss how the windmill creates energy! To save energy, consider opening the blinds and having the children to work with only light that comes in from the outside. We do this every year on earth day and the kids love it!!

Art

Create an globe by encouraging the kids to mix blue and green play dough together!

Walls

Post  Reduce, Reuse and Recycle signs. May be a good idea to add a recycling bin in the classroom.

Outdoors

Take the older children outdoors for a walk to clean up trash around your home or childcare center.

Language

Create an Earth Friendly word wall that consist of the following words: Water, Energy, Soil, Trees, etc.

Dramatic Play

You will need some large paper bags. Cut holes in the side of the bags for the kids arm to fit through the openings and on the front of the bag write: I am an Earth Friendly Kid (with Green Paint).

I would love to read your feedback about today’s blog post. Be sure to leave your comments. For more Earth Friendly Kids ideas, check out this Lesson plan idea, click here.

With Creating an Earth Friendly Child Care Business in Mind,

Shiketa

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Child Care Center, Curriculum, Earth Friendly Child Care, Family Child Care

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