Entertainment for a daycare?
What are some fun activities I can do with future daycare kids. I'm starting my own daycare soon, and I'm strung-up that working 10 hour days will kill me!! I want the time to fly because we are all having fun!
Blocks, Indoor play structure's(i.e little tikes slide), Chalk and chalk board, finger paints.
I'm gonna go bad topic real quick.. I tried out a daycare with my son for the 1st time a couple days ago and they be HORRIBLE!.. I brought my son home and he was starving and so thirsty and what they called "entertainment" be putting the kids in front of the tv to watch the lion king all hours of daylight!
But, Good luck to you! Source(s): Mommy to 21 month old
You need to read the first answer to this question - she is right on the money... Being contained by a children's service does provide some memorable moments but you can get buried with paperwork, angry upset parents, manner issues and government departments.
As for what to provide for the children to do - - - - You are not there for their entertainment... you need to know how to set up some "experiences" for them to involve themselves in. Most of these experiences the children need to be able to do independently. Because undoubtedly you will stipulation to .. answer the phone, change a nappy, greet a parent, console a child who has been bitten.
There are some amazing sites and kids books roughly speaking these topics - you will need to consider the ages of your children
Have a combination of busy active play and quiet experiences
Things for lots to secure in and something for just one person
Messy play for youngsters is great - homemade playdough is one of the best things - our kids use it everyday
Construction toys to build beside
Paper pencils scissor and lots of recycled junk to create with
Dress-ups
It does not have to cost profoundly
A container with different types of seeds to sort and mix (3 - 5 years)
Coloured water contained by a plastic bottle to shake - (under threes) Source(s): Early childhood professional - with 15 years of setting up play experiences
Mother of active boy
Answers: As a former licensed time care provider I suggest you volunteer at a local day care for a couple of weeks. It will be an eye starter. The time will not fly. You will not all be having fun. Day care is a livelihood. It may be a job that you love, but it is a tremendous responsibility and a great deal of work.
Small children are cranky at times, they can be difficult to entertain, they can be greatly difficult to feed, they can have very strong identity clashes. They can also be loving, demanding, sweet, loud, weeping, funny and challenging.
You will be exhausted two hours before they go home and an hour since they get there in the mornings. They don't construe when you have a bad day and you can't consent to them know about it. Parents change their schedule on you at the ultimate minute and expect you to cover for them when they have to work late.
If a child becomes unwell while in your care you have to try to isolate them and still protection for them while watching the others while contacting a parent that "just can't leave work right now", but is trying to get a relative to come pick him up. In the parsimonious time the nursing home has called to say that your mother have just passed away. You have a house full of children. What are you going to do? That happened to me.
I've have a parent call me a 8pm to say she thought I was going to execute her, she thought her son might have Chicken Pox and he had been at my home that light of day, could she bring him by for me to look at, she really didn't know if it was Chicken Pox or not. It was.
I had a mom let somebody know me she didn't like it that I kept a handicapped girl in a wheel stool. She claimed her child was afraid of her. (She didn't know her daughter climbed all over the girl in the bench when she wasn't there.) She made such an issue out of it that I had to ask her to seek childcare elsewhere.
I own watched two generations of children in one and the same families.
It is one of the hardest jobs I have ever loved.
The paperwork is horrid. Insurance is awful. How will you button discpline? Do you know your state's laws?
Trust me, entertainment is one of your smallest worries.
Good luck and God bless you.
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Blocks, Indoor play structure's(i.e little tikes slide), Chalk and chalk board, finger paints.
I'm gonna go bad topic real quick.. I tried out a daycare with my son for the 1st time a couple days ago and they be HORRIBLE!.. I brought my son home and he was starving and so thirsty and what they called "entertainment" be putting the kids in front of the tv to watch the lion king all hours of daylight!
But, Good luck to you! Source(s): Mommy to 21 month old
You need to read the first answer to this question - she is right on the money... Being contained by a children's service does provide some memorable moments but you can get buried with paperwork, angry upset parents, manner issues and government departments.
As for what to provide for the children to do - - - - You are not there for their entertainment... you need to know how to set up some "experiences" for them to involve themselves in. Most of these experiences the children need to be able to do independently. Because undoubtedly you will stipulation to .. answer the phone, change a nappy, greet a parent, console a child who has been bitten.
There are some amazing sites and kids books roughly speaking these topics - you will need to consider the ages of your children
Have a combination of busy active play and quiet experiences
Things for lots to secure in and something for just one person
Messy play for youngsters is great - homemade playdough is one of the best things - our kids use it everyday
Construction toys to build beside
Paper pencils scissor and lots of recycled junk to create with
Dress-ups
It does not have to cost profoundly
A container with different types of seeds to sort and mix (3 - 5 years)
Coloured water contained by a plastic bottle to shake - (under threes) Source(s): Early childhood professional - with 15 years of setting up play experiences
Mother of active boy
Answers: As a former licensed time care provider I suggest you volunteer at a local day care for a couple of weeks. It will be an eye starter. The time will not fly. You will not all be having fun. Day care is a livelihood. It may be a job that you love, but it is a tremendous responsibility and a great deal of work.
Small children are cranky at times, they can be difficult to entertain, they can be greatly difficult to feed, they can have very strong identity clashes. They can also be loving, demanding, sweet, loud, weeping, funny and challenging.
You will be exhausted two hours before they go home and an hour since they get there in the mornings. They don't construe when you have a bad day and you can't consent to them know about it. Parents change their schedule on you at the ultimate minute and expect you to cover for them when they have to work late.
If a child becomes unwell while in your care you have to try to isolate them and still protection for them while watching the others while contacting a parent that "just can't leave work right now", but is trying to get a relative to come pick him up. In the parsimonious time the nursing home has called to say that your mother have just passed away. You have a house full of children. What are you going to do? That happened to me.
I've have a parent call me a 8pm to say she thought I was going to execute her, she thought her son might have Chicken Pox and he had been at my home that light of day, could she bring him by for me to look at, she really didn't know if it was Chicken Pox or not. It was.
I had a mom let somebody know me she didn't like it that I kept a handicapped girl in a wheel stool. She claimed her child was afraid of her. (She didn't know her daughter climbed all over the girl in the bench when she wasn't there.) She made such an issue out of it that I had to ask her to seek childcare elsewhere.
I own watched two generations of children in one and the same families.
It is one of the hardest jobs I have ever loved.
The paperwork is horrid. Insurance is awful. How will you button discpline? Do you know your state's laws?
Trust me, entertainment is one of your smallest worries.
Good luck and God bless you.
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