Your Favorite Piece Of Day Care Equipment

[odskids]

Hello,

I am working on a grant and wondering, what is your favorite piece of day care equipment? Could be something you couldn't do your job without or something that the kids just love! After years of day care, looking for some new ideas!

Thanks!

[Greenshadow]

Storage!!! I dont just mean the big shelving units. I mean the baskets and trinket things to put craft pieces in and to hold extra smaller sized toys. I love anything wooden so puzzles and those bead toys are great. Anything eco-friendly. The kids love the market thing we have where you go behind it and pretend you are at the store. I think Little Tikes makes it. They love that more than the wooden play kitchen.

[boysx5]

I love the super yard gate I bought two and don't know how I did daycare for 15 years without one just putting it in front of the t.v. has changed my life in so many ways

[MissAnn]

Hello,

I am working on a grant and wondering, what is your favorite piece of day care equipment? Could be something you couldn't do your job without or something that the kids just love! After years of day care, looking for some new ideas!

Thanks!

My raised garden bed and my shark steam mop!

[blueclouds29]

i can not WAIT to get one of those heavy duty gates! I only have 3 kids.. but my 2 year old DD could use some non toddler/baby time! LOL

[SilverSabre25]

Step 2 Roller Coaster--can be for outside or if you have a large enough indoor space. Love, love, LOVE it and can be used for kids up to 55 pounds so it's good for a wide variety of ages.

Superyard--another good one.

Duplo Legos

I don't have--but could use--a good school/daycare center table and chairs--low to the ground, child-sized, sturdy.

[Childminder]

Legos and a vinyl covered activity ring for infants. The ring was something I got with grant money for the infants to crawl on and play in and the older kids are constantly playing with it. I have to limit their time with it.

[lil angels]

I love my Pandora internet radio. I stopped getting the kids new cds I can just type in a kind of music and it will play anything like it so we don't get sick of it. We use it to dance (kids bop, barney, mickey mouse club house, ect). Or at nap time we can have classical, lullaby, or anything in between and we don't have to buy or store all those cds anymore.

[DancingQueen]

vinyl covered activity ring

What is this? I've never heard of it and can't visualize it LOL

[childcarebytori]

Favorite piece of daycare equipment? Cots and Pack'n'Plays used for naptime The children enjoy them ALMOST as much as me!

[Greenshadow]

What do you use the superyards for? I have one and its in the shed. I never use it.

[SilverSabre25]

What is this? I've never heard of it and can't visualize it LOL

I'm guessing it's something like this

LOVE that soft vinyl-covered infant climby-crawly stuff! I covet this

Oh, OP--another wish I had but I don't: BIG shatterproof mirrors to mount on the wall.

[SilverSabre25]

What do you use the superyards for? I have one and its in the shed. I never use it.

I use my superyard to separate baby zone from big kids zone, or to give someone their own play area, or to make really big forts, or to gate off the end of the driveway so that kids and balls don't escape...

[lil angels]

I have two superyards to I use mine as playpens in the house for the new crawlers or to put the baby seats and swings in so my 1 yr can't get at the baby's and hurt or crawl on them. And I also use it outside in the summer so my littles can be in there on the grass because my play area is all covered in pea gravel.

[SandeeAR]

For me, at 51, my CHANGING TABLE!!! I don't like getting on the floor to change all the diapers all day long.