Childcare Holidays and Seasons

It’s all about the children when you’re in the child care business. Taking the time and making the effort to enhance their experience is crucial to operating a successful child care center. Holidays and seasons are a meaningful part of childhood, and those can and should be celebrated in daycare and childcare facilities.

A cook at an Illinois daycare center came up with some original ideas for the Thanksgiving-Christmas season. She stocks up on seasonal flavors of 100 percent juice concentrate such as PureFUN! Cran-Apple. Then she serves the juice as sparkling punch by mixing the juice concentrate with carbonated water.

The children love it. “They think they’re drinking pop, but they’re not.”

To make for an even more festive holiday table at the childcare center, she sometimes puts frozen cranberries into the punchbowl to keep the punch cold. Or she pours cranberry or orange gelatin into ice trays, then uses the ice cubes in the punchbowl.

Choosing juice flavors by color is another way for child care centers to mark seasons and holidays. A Wisconsin daycare center asked for "summer-type colors" – yellow, green and pink – when it ordered juice concentrate in July. PureFUN! obliged with its Orange-Pineapple Juice, Green Watermelon Juice and Fresh Strawberry Juice flavors.

The director pointed out the connection to the young students at snack time. "They all think it's fun when there's a color theme to stuff." Many centers serve red, white and blue juice flavors around the Fourth of July, and red and green flavors at Christmas time.

Parents treasure holiday memories made with their own children. Imaginative child care centers can create special memories for the children in their care.

Souffle Cup multiple uses

Paper or plastic soufflé cups are helpful in a daycare center because small snacks can be served neatly and efficiently. But souffle cups are also handy in art class! Cups are a great way to give each child or group of kids a small amount of a craft item, like glitter or paint. Cups can also be used as a craft by themselves. For example, use a paper soufflé cup as a basket with small holes punched in the sides and a pipe cleaner handle. Add some paper ears and draw a face on the front and you have a small Easter bunny basket to store jelly beans. A cup can also be added as a nose on a paper plate animal face.

Daycare Portion Cups

Daycare souffle cups are used everyday in daycares to serve fruit and snacks in. They allow the daycares to portion control the foods being doled out. Many daycares also serve drinks in the bigger souffle cups as well which saves on juice waste in bigger cups. You can buy wholesale portion cups for your daycare at the daycare supplies superstore.

Bathroom Supplies

Bathroom Supplies are one thing you can never afford to run out of in a daycare. Toilet paper is number 1, it would be a stressful day to run out of this with 100 children needing to go to the bathroom. Paper towels are essential as well since you want the kids to be able to dry their hands after washing. Good hand washing is essential to prevent the spread of germs so don't discourage the kids not to wash by not having paper towels to dry with. Soap and hand sanitizers are more products that you must have in any preschool facility. Preventing the spread of germs should be a HIGH priority.

Daycare Baby Changing Station

If you run a daycare or childcare center, then you know the convenience of having a baby changing station set up. This gives you one spot where you can take care of the dirty business. You need a level table at a height that is comfortable for your employees. A good supply of changing table sheets and paper keep things sanitary. Also, don't forget to have plenty of diapers, wipes, and gloves stocked at your diaper changing stations. You would never want to run out of any of these. And if you can set up your changing table near a window, keep the window open to help keep the air clean. Air freshners will help as well.

Daycare Air Freshners

Air Fresheners are critical to the success of your daycare facility. Mothers and fathers expect a clean, fresh smelling place when they drop their kids off for child care. You will run off many clients if you have a childcare facility that smells like urine and dirty diapers. So when you are deciding on important daycare supplies, make sure you prioritize air fresheners from timemist. We are the pre-school supply leader in the U.S. for air freshners.

Healthy Daycare Juice

If there is one thing Pure Fun is known for in the daycare supply, childcare supply, and pre-school supply arenas, it is their super healthy vitamin fortified juice concentrates. Purefun uses 100% all natural juice products made from the highest quality ingredients designed specifically for the childcare industry. Over the years, child care centers have come to trust PureFun for their quality juice concentrates as well as their commitment to children throughout the world. Purefun has opened several orphanages around the world to help children in need and to keep them healthy as well.