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Spring has arrived and with that comes an exciting variety of activities to get children involved in nature and outdoor play!  Providers welcome Spring with this fun interactive song with your children!   Give each child a chance to look out of the window and/or observe their surroundings while outdoors to fill in the blank!

Earth Day is April 22, 2017! Earth Day is our annual reminder to slow down and appreciate all that our Earth has to offer! Below are a few activities you can do with your children to celebrate:

  • Take a nature walk. Gather fallen leaves, dandelions, twigs, etc. You can also use these items to create a nature collage once they’ve been collected.
  • Provide recycled boxes in block area. Collect small and large recycled cereal and shoe boxes to place in the block area. See what creations the children can build with them!
  • Handprint Earth. Place blue and green finger paints at the easel and get busy!
  • Nature Yoga. Teach your children earth-like yoga moves. Such as the tree pose, rock pose, and mountain pose!

Other spring time activities include:

  • Paint flower pots.
  • Add mini shovels, hand rakes, water cans, magnifying glasses and dirt to texture table.
  • Make birdfeeders using pine cones.
  • Create a small garden by planting flowers.
  • Plant vegetables and watch them grow! Pick when ready and prepare to eat.
  • Get dirty and make some mud pies!

A few regulation reminders:

  • Each family day care home must provide a sufficient quantity and variety of materials and play equipment appropriate to the ages of the children and their developmental levels and interests, including children with developmental delays or disabilities, which promote the children ‘s cognitive, education, social, cultural, physical, emotional, language and recreational development. FDC 417.7(e)  SACC 414.(c)
  • Programs must offer daily supervised outdoor play, except during inclement or extreme weather or unless otherwise prohibited by a health care provider. Parents may request and programs may permit children to remain indoors during outdoor play time so long as such children will be supervised by an approved caregiver. FDC 417.7(h)
  • Caregivers and volunteers must ensure that children thoroughly wash their hands or assist children with thoroughly washing their hands with soap and running water when they are dirty, after toileting, before and after food handling or eating, after handling pets or other animals, after contact with any bodily secretion or fluid, and after coming in from outdoors. FDC 417.11(i)(2) SACC 414.11 (i)(2)