Childcare Resources

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Toddlers can "cook" too! Making a snack counts as cooking. Young children can "read" a recipe by following picture instructions. They also learn how to follow directions and be independent through cooking activities.

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Use food to teach colors! Use pictures or the real items. Record the colors on a graph and you can also bring in math skills!

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Use empty boxes and containers to fill your child's "kitchen." Show her the name of the food to incorporate literacy awareness.  Set up a "store" and go shopping too!

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Introduce cooking utensils at a young age with PLAY! Add rice to a sensory table or large box/bin. Fill with spoons, funnels, measuring cups, etc. Talk with your child as you play--tell him the names of the objects and what they are used for in cooking.

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Here are just a few of the books in our Resource Library, which is FREE to all parents/caregivers and child care providers. In honor of Take Your Dog to Work Day, we've featured some dog books.

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Chip and Buckley are getting friendly!

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Margie brought her dog, "Honey" to work today :) 

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Chip came to work wearing our Team colors. Need help finding child care? Call his mom in our Resource and Referral department!

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Here's Felix! His mom works in our Financial Assistance department.

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Miss Harper Lee, with her own, Lisa.

Our staff loves their 4-legged family members!

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Take your dog to work day! Meet Sam!

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Grocery store bag book

Use a paper grocery bag to create an enviornmental print book. Cut out food brand names from packages to fill the pages!

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Sponge play: cut ordinary kitchen sponges into strips. Secure with a rubber band. A great addition to indoor or outdoor water play!

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Math with jug tops? Yes!

sort them by color

compare the sizes: which are the same? bigger? smaller?

use them to make patterns

use them as nesting toys: which ones can fit inside each other?

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Identical sets of coasters make a great matching game!

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Cover every day boxes with colored contact paper--now you have bright building blocks!