Posters

[Boymom]

Do you all have educational posters, such as shapes, colors, etc on your walls? My daycare walls have absolutely nothing on them and I feel bad! I have tons of toys/puzzles, and I teach them all of that stuff, I just don't know if I should make my daycare walls more presentable!

[Josiegirl]

I have different kinds of posters up, but the dcks don't even pay attention to them anymore. And to be honest I only put them up to please STARS.
I bought a nice set of manners posters through Lakeshore. I have a couple posters I bought at the dollar store. I also have a colors and shapes posters but can't remember where those came from. I think I have one that has a few spanish/english words that I may have gotten from the Boogie Wipes mailing awhile back. I rotate them out but like I said, they get little attention from anyone.

[laundrymom]

I used to. And then I looked around at my space. I had pictures up of the things in their hands. I chose to remove the cheap posters and label the shelves and totes with them at the kids eye level. I have a ledge around my room that I rotate artwork on. Some kids make. Others I just enjoy looking at. My space is much calmer.

[organicdclady]

I hope you can see the photos. We have large numbers on another wall and our bulletin board on another.
We use the calendar wall for circle time, our letter and color of the week are usually on the wall near the shape/color poster.
My theory is to only put up when what your going to use. If your not going to discuss those colors, shapes, etc then don't put them up. The other thing is nothing is permanent. I change out our circle time posters every week.

[thrivingchildcarecom]

Apparently depending on the analyst (or their mood) fcc's in my territory are discouraged from making our environments look too much like a "preschool". That being said we use creative ways to decorate our child cares.

I am so thankful that my dch bought me a die cutting machine years ago. It is so useful when we want new decor we just cut it out. It also is great for projects and holidays too.

Another way to decorate on the cheap would be to get some of the really cute gift bags at the dollar stores and mount them on a plain canvas frame or even some cardboard would work. Instant oversized child themed prints to hang on your walls.

[MrsSteinel'sHouse]

Right now I have a one year old that takes anything she can reach off the wall! So, anything I have is up above where I would "like" it. I don't have a lot of wall space. I do have up the kids art work (high) and we color color a calendar at the beginning of the year- kids colored the months, I laminated the sheets and we work our way through the year. They like seeing who's birthdays are where and how many are left etc. I have done letter strips before. I do have a magnetic dry erase board that is at floor level. I have various magnet sets that I trade out. They do like sitting and playing with those and it is colorful and at their eye level.
Oh and I have up some of the food progam posters.... they have kids eating food! I feel it is a good reminder to parents. In my breakfast nook I have some photos of real food that I was gifted from a photograper. They have been published so it is kind of cool. https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...af&oe=57DA0234

[tomato]

Are wall posters really that important?
I haven't read anything by this writer, but I understand that there is a writer named Sullivan who posted a picture of a snowman with its nose missing, just to see if the children would notice.
If any of the children noticed, they didn't comment.

[CalCare]

Maybe you can ask your local referral office for a copy of the fccers (family childcare environmental rating scale) book. In there it will list what would be considered beneficial to display. For example: Current/ recent children's artwork, pictures showing a variety of ages, abilities, genders, skin tones, all actively doing things that aren't stereotypes (mom in her police uniform, child in a wheel chair throwing a basketball, etc). Also real people from different areas of the world and different cultures but not dressed in special celebration clothing, but dressed in their real clothing and not ancient historical clothing but the modern clothing they wear every day. As far as numbers and letters- the fccers, iters and eccers books will give a million little details of what is considered best. That said, it's your own house. So, do it however you like of course! Some philosophies flat out disagree with letters and numbers displayed or taught in ECE. Some philosophies disagree with using unnaturally bright primary colors. Some philosophies disagree with having much on display at all (too much over stimulation), some philosophies want their three year olds to know how to read and would need a print rich environment to encourage it... So much to choose from!

[Thriftylady]

I just got my shipment from the pears people today on the freebie post BC posted a week or so ago. Some cute Bert and Ernie and Cookie Monster ones!

[Pepperth]

The only thing I have on the walls right now are my bulletin board and a few quotes by Dr. Seuss.

[Blackcat31]

I have poster frames and I put photos of the kids in them.

I have pictures of their faces crying, laughing and other emotions...

I also have pictures of them doing different activities in poster frames too!

They love looking at themselves and at other kids they recognize.

I rotate the photos out every so often so that they don't just blend into the wall and become obscure.

They notice instantly when I change the photos out.

[Miss A]

I have a few color, number, and letter posters from the Dollar Tree up on my walls, but I use more photos of the children in my care than anything. They like to look at themselves doing activities, and see the friends that may be home for the day.

That said, I run legally unlicensed, so I do not follow FCCERS. I worked in a center as a lead teacher though for 2 years and know that ITERS requires photos of different races interacting, as well as children of all abilities. As I live in a rural area, all children in my care are white, and one has a small disability, but as I said, I do not worry too much about that being represented in my photos. We read books that help us to learn about those around us.

[kendallina]

I don't have any posters up, I find the kids ignore them.

I do own a poster about ants that I put up when we study ants and they pay attention to that.

I do have an alphabet up on the wall in front of the writing table, they use that poster.

Everything else up on the wall are pictures of the kids and their artwork or charts that we make, etc. They like to revisit their previous work.

[lovemydaycare0912]

I have the ABC border on one of my walls. I also have shapes. The color ones have different animals to match the color. I have a Dr.Seuss 1-20 one. I have paper kids and animals hanging from my ceiling. I have the kids artworks that I rotate on another wall. I have a chalkboard wall as well. It's more so for when parents interview. Kids don't pay attention and 1/2 or 3/4 of my parents don't come inside anymore .

[Boymom]

Thank you, everyone! I love the idea of having their pictures in frames and hanging their artwork!