Explorations Child Care
Our outdoor classroom added an Art Shed this year. This has been a goal of ours for many years now and we were so excited to finally be able to make this reality. We love offering outdoor art activities for the children but noticed their frustration with the wind. Our solution was purchasing a shed that was open to the front with a side door and two windows. This allowed the shed to be open, airy and let lots of natural light in. We stocked our Art Shed with tables, lots of storage and made it accessible for the children to be able to create when they needed. It has been a huge success!
We also fine tuned our outdoor math center, literacy center and science center. Since we spent about 5-6 hours of our 8 hour day outside everyday we wanted to ensure we offered all the children opportunities to learn in every way we could.
This year we also added some new plants, started two bean trellises and added a Wonder Window Tunnel. The tunnel is a wood house shaped structure that is open on both ends with colored plexiglass tile windows. The children can ride their balance bikes through the tunnel, walk or run through or stop and look at the world through colored windows. It is one of my favorite additions.
