Get ideas for crafts and activities that you can do with the children and adults in your care!
How can childcare providers expose kids to nature while keeping it safe and fun? Lead your CACFP participants on nature walks! Here are four variations of this timeless activity that are sure to refresh and inspire:
We’ve get seven exciting twists on this classic game, and your CACFP participants will have a blast giving them each a try.
Check out this big kid update on the classic childhood game of red-light, green-light for outdoor fun that’s sure to get their bodies moving!
STEM in early childcare can seem daunting. Check out our 3-2-1 Blastoff! activity inspiration for a fun activity and some easy STEM ideas!
Stick horse races are the perfect solution to get the blood pumping and jazz up regular foot races, and engage curious minds about horses!
Do your CACFP participants love to rock out? Let them feel the beat with this fun preschool percussion activity.
This fun activity is the perfect game to create in advance and store away for a day that the weather keeps your group inside!
Imagination rules the day in this circus-inspired activity. Keep this fun activity handy in your idea box. It can be played inside or outside, with or without additional materials.
Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by making some “I Have a Dream” clouds! Draw the shape of a cloud on some colorful construction paper and cut it out for those in your care to write what their dream is and decorate their cloud. Hang the clouds up to share everyone’s dreams!
January 11 is National Milk Day, so make serving milk in the CACFP fun with a hand-decorated cow cup!