Green Daycare

DIY Nontoxic Cleaning Products for Daycare

February 22, 2013

Tweet Tweet Many cleaning products that you use in your daycare are toxic and harmful to the kids in your home daycare as well as to the environment. Make your own cleaning supplies allows you to save some money and keep children safe because you know what’s going in them.  Here are more great reasons to make your [...]

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Environmentally Friendly Daycare Playground Environments: Interview with Matt Haugh Part 2

July 9, 2010

Tweet Tweet Increasingly, more family daycare businesses are becoming environmentally safe and responsible.  Child care providers are special taking measures (as an important component of their daycare jobs) to ensure that the environment provides the best in health for children, offer locally-grown or organic food, and celebrate multiculturalism. Matt Haugh directs sales and marketing for [...]

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Environmentally-Friendly Art Supplies for Preschoolers: Green Art Supply Resource List

October 15, 2009

Tweet Tweet While most art supplies for children are tested for safety, many products still include toxins like lead, silica, dioxins, and arsenic that are potential health hazards. Today many companies produce green (or environmentally friendly) art supplies for children. For example, their crayons may be made from soy instead of petroleum and colored pencils [...]

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The “Green” Day Care

February 11, 2009

Tweet Tweet In the recent years, many child care centers had started their attempts at being “green” as possible. Some owners and provider have long started making trips to recycling centers with their meticulously divided waste. This feeble attempts at preserving the environment is the least they can do to help and serve as role [...]

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