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Homemade Gift Ideas for Your Daycare Kids

Carla — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:00:12 +0000

With the holidays approaching, daycare owners are trying to figure out what, if anything, to give their daycare kids and parents. We asked the OwnADaycare on Facebook members, “what are some homemade gift ideas for Christmas for the children in your daycare”? Our members who are also daycare owners responded to provide their best homemade daycare gift suggestions:

You could have someone take a picture of you and each child and put them in a frame with a poem. You could take their name and come up with something you adore about them for every letter.I’ve also seen people make an initial craft out of broken crayons, you could do that for each child and frame them in a shadow frame.
We make t-shirts and or bags with their hand prints (angels, reindeers or Santas) I change each year. Make sure to put your business name on them so they are “advertisement” also.
Last year I made hand print on a dish cloth with the year and the child’s name with this poem:
I miss you when we’re not together
I’m growing up so fast
See how big I’ve gotten
Since you saw me last?
As I grow, I’ll change a lot,
The years will fly right by.
You’ll wonder how I grew so quick
When and where and why?
So look upon this handprint (these handprints)
That’s hanging on your wall.
And memories will come back of me,
When I was very small.

I made homemade play dough one year and wrote out the recipe to share with parents. I split the play dough into little baggies wiith ribbon and made a little box with a placement, rolling pin and host of play dough cutters and such. Another year I made little felt boards. I cut out shapes, and the characters to Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear to go with it.
Last year I bought flour sack dish towels a WM for CHEAP and we put hand prints on them in t shirt paint and then I went back and put their names on in a coordinating color. They were AWESOME!
We give pre-measured dry ingredients for playdough in a ziplock or jar with playdough recipe attached, they will only need to add water and oil!
Try snowman soup which was a packet of hot chocolate and a candy cane then make a video or slide show of the kids playing & burn to DVDs.
Snowman soup, reindeer food to sprinkle on Christmas eve, CD of favorite music…write each child’s name beside their request put a group picture on the cover, recipe book — get parents to send couple of favorite family recipes put them together in a cookbook
I’m gluing/mod podging a picture of each kid on the 6 sides of a block so they have all their friends and dyeing a play silk to wrap it in.
We’re taking old coffee tins and covering them in red or white to make a Santa or snowman, then use 1/2 Styrofoam ball glue on top as head and decorate! Then the kids make cookies to fill the tin and that’s there presents to their parents Great for any age group.
Tag blankets for the babies or toddlers, you can make yourself. I am making oat bags for the parents (steal oats and sweat shirt material).
For Older kids, depending on how crafty you are, you can make a board game and magnets with the kid’s pictures on them to put on their fridge.

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Arts and Craft Ideas for Very Young Children in Multi-age Daycare

Carla — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:00:34 +0000

Many daycare providers care for groups of multi-age children. It can be challenging to provide arts and craft activities (creative arts activities) for multi-age groups. We asked our OwnADaycare Facebook fans who are daycare owners if they provide arts and crafts activities for young children between 16 months and 20 months of age to take home weekly. Answers varied:

I do exclusive infant care and find that to be a difficult task!! You kind of find yourself doing the project anyway. I may do some holiday things, but it’s kind of the nice thing for the next step of child care once they a 2 years and move onward!! We do offer crayons and simple manipulation activities though.
We do!! It is so fun and the parent’s LOVE it! We just made fall flowers with their foot and hand prints.
I start crafts/lesson plans at 16 months. The younger children do the same thing as the older ones do, but it’s modified to meet their development. We do a letter and number of the week, shape and colors of the month, Bible story of the month, all combined into a monthly theme.
Why do they need to do crafts? They should be learning how to share, play, do dramatic play and learn not to hit. Don’t get so hung up on table time. Coloring and manipulations are more than enough.
Mine get to do what the older ones do, I just cut everything and put glue on, they get to put wherever they stick it. Parents live to get them.
We don’t do crafts every week, usually when it’s the change of the seasons and holiday times is when I do crafts with my kids ages 2 and up do the craft but most def. not every week, I would say I do crafts more like 2-3 times a month, but more around Christmastime we play a lot with playdoh and color.
I have a 16 month old and a 28 month old that I watch and if I was to do crafts with them, I would be doing the project. Coloring for the older one is hard enough. And mom wants ME to start potty training him too (he has a vocabulary of maybe 20 to 25 words-he is not ready)
This year I have a 6mo old, 13mo old, 24mo old, and a 5 year old boy. So no crafts this time around. The 5yr old and 24 month old do color and learn letters, numbers etc. The 5yr old is kindergarten ready, but his birthday fell a few days short.
Most of the time it’s my 2-5 year olds that participate in craft time. Occasionally if the younger one (17 months) wants to sit at the table, I let her sit with me and color. Let them do what you think they can handle. All young children are different.
I have 4 babies between 13 months and 16 months and I do art time, not craft time…it’s about the process…not an end result, with the exception of holiday/special occasion gifts. So they play with salt dough, paint with applesauce or pudding, and they use the sensory tub (with puffed wheat in it for them) so it’s all safe, sensory, creative time…but not a finished product to take home. Around 20-24 months of age, I do more coloring and craft projects.
I involve the younger ones as much as they are able. I don’t do art projects to go home with the younger toddlers unless it is a rare occasion where we traced a hand or foot to do the project. Parents do love to have things come home. I have a 17 month old that took home a painting he did on his own and a sign language “I love you” that we did for him. Mom had them on Facebook to show everyone his art work. I am definitely not about the end product for any of the kids. We do at least a couple art projects/activities a week, sometimes more. Typically the babies are napping when we do art, but if they are around they will paint with us. It also depends more on the child than their age too.
My younger children do the same thing as the older ones! May not turn out to what it’s supposed to be but the parents LOVE it anyways!

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Fine Motor Preschool Activity: Paint with a Cotton Swab

Carla — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:00:38 +0000

When developing curriculum, daycare providers must include age-appropriate activities for young children that develop fine motor skills. This cotton swab painting activity will support an fine arts unit as well as promote visual motor coordination, bilateral coordination, and hand strength.

Fine motor skills are actions that involve the small movement of hands, wrists, feet, fingers, toes, tongue, and lips. In contrast with gross motor skills which involve larger muscles of the arms, legs and feet, fine motor skills focus on small muscle movements in coordination with the eye. Some important fine motor concepts and skills that preschool age children learn to master are bilateral coordination, visual motor coordination, grasp, hand use, manipulation skills, pincer grasp, wrist rotation, pre-writing grasp, hand strength, and tactile awareness.

Children learn fine motor skills through practice. Activities which involve writing, drawing, cutting, stringing, and buttoning are great examples of activities that promote the development of fine motor skills.

This cotton swab painting activity includes the preparation instructions, procedure, and materials list for this activity. It also provides age-appropriate learning objectives and a sample of the simple supporting verbal cues necessary to encourage participation and support learning.

Cotton Swab Painting Materials

For each child you will need:

Easel
Art paper
A cotton swab for each color of paint
Tempura paint in a variety of colors
Shallow dishes for paint
A smock

Activity Procedures

Set up art easels with art paper for each child. Set out tempura paint Invite the children over to art area. Explain to them that you are use cotton swabs like paint brushes. Put a smock on each child. Let the children paint with the cotton swabs. Encourage children to make polka dots with the tip of the cotton swab dipped in paint.

Fine Motor Learning Objectives

Objective 1: To provide the opportunity for increased visual-motor coordination, bilateral coordination, hand strength, and pincher grasp by using the cotton swab as a paint brush

Verbal Cue A: Can you grasp the cotton swab and dip it in paint?
Verbal Cue B: Can you paint a design with the cotton swab?

Objective 2: To provide the opportunity to increase bilateral coordination, hand strength and visual-motor coordination by making dots on the paper with the cotton swab dipped in paint.

Verbal Cue A: Let’s dip the tip of the brush in paint and then make dots on the paper.
Verbal Cue B: I like how you are making dots with your brush.

Objective 3: The child will use new tools to create designs.

Verbal Cue A: Can you use the cotton swab like a paint brush?
Verbal Cue B: I like how you painting with the cotton swab.

Children in your child day care center will create a unique work of art while enhancing their fine motor skills.

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Daycare or Preschool Physical Activity: What Time Is It, Mister Fox?

Carla — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:00:57 +0000

Motor skills are actions that control how muscles move the body. Gross motor skills are those that control the large muscles of the body which are used to walk, run, crawl, sit, jump, and other large muscle activities. Preschool teachers and daycare providers can enhance gross motor skill development through effective lesson plans that include gross motor activities.

Activities for preschool children should include those that develop physical gross motor skills. The Bunny Hop is an Easter activity that will promote major muscle coordination and it’s just plain fun for preschool aged kids. According to the Encyclopedia of Children’s Health, gross motor skills are the abilities required in order to control the large muscles of the body. Some important physical gross motor concepts and skills that preschool age children learn to master are balance, spatial orientation (which means that the child is aware of the position of his or her body in space as well as in relation to other people and objects), laterality (which means that the child is aware of the left and right sides of the body), and the coordination of major muscles.

Daycare centers can encourage gross motor skill development through effective lesson plans and play. A fine example of an activity that promotes the development of gross motor skills is What Time is it, Mister Fox?

This lesson plan includes not only the preparation instructions, procedure, and materials list for this activity, but also the age appropriate learning objectives and a sample of the simple supporting verbal cues necessary to encourage participation and support learning.

Activity Preparation

Clear an activity area that is large enough so that the children have plenty of space to complete their movements.

Activity Procedures

Invite the children over to activity area. Explain that they will be playing a game called “What time is it, Mister Fox?” Ask children to form a line, standing side by side in the activity area. Instruct the kids say, “What time is it, Mister Fox?. As Mister Fox you will give a command such as, “It’s time to Jump!” The children follow the command until you give the signal to stop. Continue doing this, substituting different physical movements such as skipping, hopping and crawling). The kids will continue to get closer to Mister Fox. The last answer Mister Fox gives is “It’s midnight!” and you will pretend to chase the kids back to the other side of the activity area. Repeat.

Gross Motor Learning Objectives

Objective 1: To enhance rebound and airborne activities through jumping and hopping.

Verbal Cue A: It’s time to jump!

Verbal Cue B: It’s time to hop!

Objective 2: To enhance rebound and airborne activities through skipping.

Verbal Cue A: It’s time to skip!

Verbal Cue B: It’s time to skip forward!

Objective 3: To develop spatial relationships (body and space perception) using the prepositions forward, backward, and straight ahead in verbal cues.

Verbal Cue A: It’s time to jump backward with both feet!

Verbal Cue B: It’s time to jump forward three times!

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Mother’s Day Preschool Craft: Flower Place Mat

Carla — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:00:10 +0000

Early learning goals for toddlers include creative development. “The creative arts, including music, movement, dramatic play, puppetry, painting, sculpture, and drawing, are a crucial part of early childhood. Not only do the arts allow children to express themselves, but creative activity can enhance development of children’s skills in literacy, science, math, social studies, and more” according to “Spotlight on Young Children and the Creative Arts” by Derry Koralek [NAEYC, 2005]. Art, therefore, nurtures creativity.

Preschool teachers and daycare providers have the opportunity to promote creative development by providing art activities that explore media and materials and encourage imagination.

This flower place mat craft is an excellent example of an activity that provides the opportunity to for expression, to encourage spontaneity in material usage, and to introduce children to textured materials.

This lesson plan includes a materials list, preparation instructions and procedures for this activity to make childcare jobs easier, but also the age appropriate learning objectives and a sample of the simple supporting verbal cues necessary to encourage participation and support learning.

Flowers Place Mat Materials List

Clear contact paper

Flowers and leaves

Scissors with a decorative edge

Activity Preparation:

For each place mat, cut 2 pieces of contact paper approximately 12″ x 18″.
Remove blossoms and leaves from their stems. Additionally, you may remove the petals and use them individually.
Cover the table with butcher paper.
Place all materials on the table.

Procedures for Flowers Place Mat Activity

Invite the children over and tell that you are going to take turns making a beautiful place mat for Mother’s Day
Take the backing off one piece and lay it sticky side up on the table.
Encourage children to arrange the flowers, flower petals, and leaves on the sticky side of the contact paper.
Help children press the flowers, leaves and petals flat with their fingers.
Peel the backing off the 2nd piece of contact paper. Help children to place it sticky side down over the arrangement.
Trim around all edges with scissors that have a decorative edge.

Art Lesson Objectives

Objective 1

To provide the opportunity for expressive activities by encouraging the children to create a place mat using flowers.

Verbal Cue A: Today we are going to make a place mat decorated with flowers!

Verbal Cue B: Would you like to design a your place mat with flowers?

Objective 2

To encourage spontaneity in material usage by allowing the children to choose flowers, leaves and flower petals to decorate the place mat.

Verbal Cue A: Which flowers would you like to use first?

Verbal Cue B: I like the way you are decorating your place mat!

Objective 3

To promote the sharing of art materials to foster social interaction and cooperation.

Verbal Cue A: Let’s take turns using the scissors.

Verbal Cue B: Can you let Lisa use the pink flowers?

Kids will have great fun in your childcare center while learning important cognitive skills: sorting and classification.

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Spring Daycare Activity: Bird Nest Craft

Carla — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:00:33 +0000

Preschool teachers and daycare providers have the opportunity to promote creative development by providing art activities that explore media and materials and encourage imagination.

This spring bird nest activity is an excellent example of an activity that provides the opportunity to for expression, to encourage spontaneity in material usage, and to introduce children to textured materials.

This lesson plan includes a materials list, preparation instructions and procedures for this activity to make childcare jobs easier, along with the age appropriate learning objectives and a sample of the simple supporting verbal cues necessary to encourage participation and support learning.

Bird Nest Materials:

Brown paper bag

Twigs

Easter grass

Jelly beans

Bird Nest Activity Preparation:

Cover a table with butcher paper
Place all materials on the table

Procedures for Bird Nest Activity

Explain to the children that you are going to make a bird nest.
Take children on a nature walk to collect twigs and branches.
Roll the paper bag down from the top to create a bird’s nest.
Children can add Easter grass and jelly beans to the nest.

Bird Nest Craft Objectives

Objective 1

To provide the opportunity for expressive activities by encouraging the children to create a bird’s nest from simple materials.

Verbal Cue A: Today we are going to make a bird nest!
Verbal Cue B: Would you like to add twigs to the nest?

Objective 2

To encourage spontaneity in material usage by allowing the children to choose embellishments for the bird nest.

Verbal Cue A: Which color jelly beans would you like to add to the nest?
Verbal Cue B: I like the way you have arranged your twigs!

Objective 3

To promote the sharing of art materials to foster social interaction and cooperation.

Verbal Cue A: Let’s take turns using the grass.
Verbal Cue B: Can you pass a few twigs to Joan?

Kids will have great fun in your childcare center while learning important cognitive skills: sorting and classification.

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Easter Bunny Hop: Physical Motor Lesson Plan

Carla — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:00:36 +0000

Bunny Hop Materials List

Large activity area
Bunny ears and Cotton tails (optional)
“Bunny Hop” music

Bunny Hop Activity Preparation

Clear an activity area that is large enough so that the children have plenty of space to complete their movements. Put music into the music player.

Bunny Hop Activity Procedures

Invite the children over to activity area. Explain that they will be doing the bunny hop – hopping like bunnies to the “Bunny Hop” song. Ask children to form a line and then show them how to stand one behind the other, holding the waist of the child in front of them. As the music plays, call out the actions:

Right foot forward
Right foot back
Left foot forward
Left foot back
Jump forward with both feet
Jump back with both feet
Hop, hop, hop

Repeat all actions until the music stops.

Gross Motor Learning Objectives

Objective 1: To enhance rebound and airborne activities through jumping and hopping.

Verbal Cue A: Jump forward three times!

Verbal Cue B: Can you hop like a bunny?

Objective 2: To develop spatial relationships (body and space perception) using the prepositions left and right verbal cues.

Verbal Cue A: Put your left foot forward.

Verbal Cue B: Can you put your right foot forward?

Objective 3: To develop spatial relationships (body and space perception) using the prepositions forward, backward, and straight ahead in verbal cues.

Verbal Cue A: Jump backward with both feet.

Verbal Cue B: Can you jump forward three times?

The Bunny Hop is simply a fun, skill building activity that can be used for an Easter, spring or animal preschool theme.

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Family Night Activities for Day Care

Carla — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:00:01 +0000

Holding a family night is a way to engage parents in the educational progress of their children. Family nights also gives parents a chance to spend time with the daycare provider in a relaxed setting. family night is especially important when you’re just starting a daycare because it allows clients to meet other parents and is also a great way to meet other children in the daycare. Offer light refreshments and be sure to encourage families to circulate and mingle. A few great family night activities are family reading night, game night, arts and crafts night and show and tell.

Family Reading Night

Hold a fun family reading night. Suggest a theme such” Under the Sea”. Families can bring in fun picture books about the ocean and sea creatures , such as Over in the Ocean In a Coral Reef by Marianne Berkes and Jeanette Canyon or The Magic School Bus: On the Ocean Floor by A. J. Wood. Try a theme such as zoo animals. Parents can choose books like If Anything Goes Wrong at the Zoo by Mary Jean Hendrick and Jane Dyer or Zany Zoo by William Wise and Lynn Munsinger. Invite parents and children to come to the daycare in the evening dressed in pajamas. Also suggest families bring a blanket to sit on. Parents can take turns reading stories to the daycare children.

Game Night

Invite daycare families for a fun game night. Ask families to bring in their favorite age appropriate board games. Some game suggestions are the Goodnight Moon Game, the I Spy Preschool Game, and Mouse Trap. Set up a long row of tables and suggest that families share their games with other families. Alternatively, games could be gross motor games such as kick ball, soccer, obstacles course, or relay races.

Arts and Crafts Night

Hold an arts and crafts night. Set up several age appropriate craft stations and invite daycare parents and to spend time rotating through the stations. Some examples are a card decorating station, a t-shirt decorating station, finger painting station, and decoupage station. Children can show parents their fine motor and creative development skills.

Show and Tell Night

Show and tell is a great way for daycare parents and students to share personal information and talents. Daycare providers should encourage parents and children to bring in an item that they would love to share with other daycare families. Optionally, choose a show and tell theme. For example, instruct families to bring in or share something that begins with the letter G or choose specify a color.

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Homemade Daycare Art Supply Recipes

Carla — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:00:28 +0000

Art supplies for home daycare businesses can be expensive. However you can save some money by making simple craft materials. These are the craft materials that children in your home daycare use over and over in creative arts activities or free play. Here are some recipes for play dough, face paint, silly putty, decoupage glue, crayons, finger paint, and bubbles.

Play Dough
Ingredients:
One-cup cold water
One-cup salt
Two-teaspoon vegetable oil
Three cups flour
Two tablespoons cornstarch
Tempera paint or food coloring (adjust amount for color desired)

Instructions
Combine water, salt, oil and paint together. Gradually kneed in the flour and cornstarch until the mixture is the consistency of bread dough.

Face Paint
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 tablespoons shortening (such as Crisco)
food coloring

Instructions
Mix 2 tablespoons of cornstarch with 1 tablespoon of shortening for white face paint. For colored makeup, put the mixture into small bowls and drops of food coloring into each. Don’t use plastic bowls or they may stain the bowls.

Collage or Decoupage Glue
Ingredients
3 parts white Elmer’s glue
1 part warm water

Instructions
Combine glue with water in bottle with a screw top lid. Shake until well mixed.

Silly Putty
Ingredients
1 part liquid starch
1 part white Elmer’s glue
Instructions
Pour starch into a bowl and add glue. Work with hands until it becomes smooth and stretchy and all liquid is absorbed. The silly putty must be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

Rainbow Crayons
Materials
Non-stick muffin pans
Old, broken crayons
Instructions: Preheat your oven to 250. Remove the paper off of old, broken crayons. Put several different colors in each section of an old muffin tin. Place the muffin tins in the oven until the crayons melt and then cool overnight. Remove the crayons and enjoy.

Finger Paint
Ingredients
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
½ cup cornstarch
3 tablespoons sugar
2 cups cold water
Food coloring
dishwashing liquid

Instructions
Soak gelatin in ¼ cup warm water and set aside. Mix together cornstarch and sugar in medium sauce pan. Add remaining water a little at a time and continue cooking over low heat, stirring until well blended. Remove from heat and add gelatin. Divide into containers and then add a few drops of dishwashing liquid and food coloring to container.

Bubbles
Ingredients
3 cups water
1 cup baby shampoo
1/3 cup light corn syrup
Instructions
Combine all ingredients together in a large mixing bowl.

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Spring Creative Arts Activity: Eggshell Tulip Craft

Carla — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:00:56 +0000

Children’s creativity blossoms through rich experience in the arts. According to Play Projects and preschool Standards by Gera Jacobs and Kathy Krowley, “Through the arts, children learn to express themselves and discover that they can represent their thoughts and ideas through many different media. The arts help children develop the concept that one thing can represent an idea…Art assists children in making meaning of their world”. Art nurtures creativity.

Preschool teachers and daycare providers have the opportunity to promote creative development by providing art activities that explore media and materials and encourage imagination.

This spring flower craft is an excellent example of an activity that provides the opportunity to for expression, to encourage spontaneity in material usage, and to introduce children to textured materials.

This eggshell tulip lesson plan includes a materials list, preparation instructions and procedures for this activity to make childcare jobs easier, but also the age appropriate learning objectives and a sample of the simple supporting verbal cues necessary to encourage participation and support learning.

Eggshell Tulip Materials:

Eggshells

Pipe cleaners

Tempura paint in spring colors

Markers

Glue

Eggshell Tulip Activity Preparation:

Clean and dry eggshell halves
Cover a table with butcher paper
Place all materials on the table

Procedures for Eggshell Tulip Activity

Invite the children over and tell that you are going to make a spring tulips using eggshells.
Let children decorate the eggshells using tempura paint and let them dry overnight.
The next day, children can add details to the tulips using markers.
Shape the end of a green pipe cleaner into a small spiral shape and glue the pipe cleaner to the eggshell.

Eggshell Tulip Craft Objectives

Objective 1

To provide the opportunity for expressive activities by encouraging the children to create tulips out of eggshells.

Verbal Cue A: Today we are going to make eggshell tulips!
Verbal Cue B: Would you like to cut pictures from magazines?

Objective 2

To encourage spontaneity in material usage by allowing the children to choose colors and embellishments for the tulips.

Verbal Cue A: Which color paints would you like to use first?
Verbal Cue B: I like the design you have drawn!

Objective 3

To promote the sharing of art materials to foster social interaction and cooperation

Verbal Cue A: Let’s take turns using the paint.
Verbal Cue B: Can you let Mark use the green marker?

Kids will have great fun in your childcare center while learning important cognitive skills: sorting and classification.

*Eggshell Tulip activity adapted from Enchanted Learning.com

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