Blankets After Naptime

[Blackcat31]

These are kind of cool!

You can get plastic "sleeves" for sanitary storage too!

If the program can't afford them, maybe consider adding a supply fee and passing it onto the parents. Then when each child ages out, they can take their blanket with them.

http://rolleepollee.com/category/school-pricing/

[hwichlaz]

The kids fold up their own blanket and place it, along with their travel sized pillow, in their cubby after they've gone potty. BUT each child has two cubbies of the same color. The one on top is for a change of cloths and stuff that needs to go home, the one on bottom for bedding.

I have these...

https://www.amazon.com/RiverRidge-Kids-Storage-Cabinet-Espresso/dp/B002FPAK2G/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1489073927&sr=8-17&keywords=storage+cubbies

[Britt507]

These are all great ideas!

I just know that DHS is strict and if this is one thing that we can control, it'd be another thing to check off my list to not stress or worry about!

And yes, the cots do have sheets on them but they're not thick enough to touch the cot above or below them. I know it's a crazy rule that the blankets can't be touching the cot.

And we wash them once a week because we do not have a washing machine and dryer in our room. We only do it weekly to eliminate the possibility of one person being left alone with 15 kids for more than fifteen minutes. And my co-worker likes to leave the room a lot.

Also, our cubbies are not big enough for everything to fit in them. This is also a problem lately. BUT summer/spring is coming and there will be more room! Yipee!

I was just hoping there was an easy solution! I like thoses rollee pollee things but they're not very cost efficient and I do not see the school approving those to be bought since we'd need at least twenty of them, if not more to be safe.

[Blackcat31]

These are all great ideas!

I just know that DHS is strict and if this is one thing that we can control, it'd be another thing to check off my list to not stress or worry about!

And yes, the cots do have sheets on them but they're not thick enough to touch the cot above or below them. I know it's a crazy rule that the blankets can't be touching the cot.

And we wash them once a week because we do not have a washing machine and dryer in our room. We only do it weekly to eliminate the possibility of one person being left alone with 15 kids for more than fifteen minutes. And my co-worker likes to leave the room a lot.

Also, our cubbies are not big enough for everything to fit in them. This is also a problem lately. BUT summer/spring is coming and there will be more room! Yipee!

I was just hoping there was an easy solution! I like thoses rollee pollee things but they're not very cost efficient and I do not see the school approving those to be bought since we'd need at least twenty of them, if not more to be safe.

You know how in the Dr's office they have those big sheets of paper they put on the exam tables? Then they rip it off and pull out a new section for the next patient....

MAybe you could put large sheets of paper inbetween each cot so that only the paper is separating each cot/blanket/sheet and not touching?

I dunno...just thinking out loud because some of the regulations I've seen about this type of stuff is laughable...their sheets can't touch :confused:....these kids play together and touch a whole lot more of each other's "ick" than we can imagine so the sanitary regs are often laughable....

[Britt507]

You know how in the Dr's office they have those big sheets of paper they put on the exam tables? Then they rip it off and pull out a new section for the next patient....

MAybe you could put large sheets of paper inbetween each cot so that only the paper is separating each cot/blanket/sheet and not touching?

I dunno...just thinking out loud because some of the regulations I've seen about this type of stuff is laughable...their sheets can't touch :confused:....these kids play together and touch a whole lot more of each other's "ick" than we can imagine so the sanitary regs are often laughable....

Those are my thoughts exactly. When the DHS lady told us that the blankets couldn't stay on the cots, I gave her a look as if she was crazy! Apparently, she doesn't know kids very well!!!!!

I'm still looking into alternative ideas for blanket storage!

[hwichlaz]

You could get the plastic sleeves from the rolleepollee site. Those would fit any nap blanket and travel pillow in them. Then put some hooks on the wall for them.

[Britt507]

http://www.orientaltrading.com/personalized-large-bright-canvas-drawstring-backpacks-a2-13767459.fltr?source=shoppingcart

I found these on oriental trading. I don't want these to be taken home so I thought that I would put the daycare's name in the first line and Do Not Take Home! on the second line. But would that be appropriate?

[hwichlaz]

http://www.orientaltrading.com/perso...e=shoppingcart

I found these on oriental trading. I don't want these to be taken home so I thought that I would put the daycare's name in the first line and Do Not Take Home! on the second line. But would that be appropriate?

That or "Property of Daycare Name, Do Not Remove"

[Britt507]

I like that but however all of it doesn't fit.

Property of __________ should work, right?

[Second Home]

I use closet hanging organizer things . Each child has a place for blanket , pillow( folded in half) and security item if needed . Since they are cloth cubes one child's items never touch another child's items.

Something like this-

http://www.target.com/p/6-shelf-hanging-closet-organizer-gray-birch-threshold/-/A-15022270

[EntropyControlSpecialist]

This may be too simplistic but here is what I do...

I have mostly 2 day kids. So, there is cot sharing. Each child has a large plastic bag (Old Navy has good sized ones) with their name on it. Their blanket, sheet, and lovey go inside that bag and it then rests on their cot. I am teaching them to get them inside the bags but sometimes they need help. It looks bulky but it gets greatly squished once another cot is on top of it. Once I have their blankets inside the bag I then spray the bleach spray on the cot, smack the two plastic bags at the FOOT of the cot, and move onto the next cot. I have 11 cots I have out each day. This doesn't take but 10 or so minutes to do all 11.

If they're extremely worried about contamination could you just spray bleach spray on the backside and frontside of each cot before naptime (if you have an assistant then one of you do it while the other helps with potty breaks and book reading OR you could do it while they're eating lunch)...let them dry for 10 minutes...and then put on blankets? That seems like such a hassle but just thinking out loud.

[MrsSteinel'sHouse]

I don't fold and put in the Ziploc bags.. I just shove them in
I am thinking after this thread though that I might just have them put them in a dollar tree bin and place them on the shelf- again I wouldn't fold them just have the kids put them in. My shelf is high on the wall so they wouldn't be accessible by the kids because if they can get to blankets they do and we wouldn't want them contaminated with their sleeping blankets only our play ones.

[Cat Herder]

http://www.orientaltrading.com/perso...e=shoppingcart

I found these on oriental trading. I don't want these to be taken home so I thought that I would put the daycare's name in the first line and Do Not Take Home! on the second line. But would that be appropriate?

You can simply zip tie the bags to the hanging rod, circle hooks or metal shelving frame. Accessible, but not removable until you want to remove them with shears. Zip ties are cheap, so replacing as needed is economical.

[Silly Songs]

In one of the centers I used to work we put the blankets under the sheet on the cot.That way blankets didn't get mixed up and with the wrong cots.

[SunflowerMama]

We have blankets and small travel pillows from Ikea and have a hanging shoe organizer in the closet with the cots and each child's blanket and pillow fit perfectly in the organizer.

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