Includes index

Getting started -- Activities -- Doing activities with children -- Setting up your environment -- Things to think about -- The entrance -- Indoor play areas -- Outdoor play areas -- Other areas to consider -- Toys and other materials -- Setting up a daily schedule -- Developing a curriculum -- Child-centered -- Developmentally appropriate -- Planning for mixed age groups -- Multiple intelligences theory -- Using themes -- Daily planning -- Child growth and development -- Infant -- Toddler -- Preschool -- School age -- Reproducible forms -- Identification and emergency information -- Child's health history -- Emergency medical care release form -- Permission to participate in program activities and field trips and to be photographed by the provider -- Activities -- Language and literacy activities -- Story time -- General tips for reading to children -- Tips for reading non-fiction books with young children -- Tips for reading alphabet books with young children -- Letter of the day -- In the box, not in the box -- I spy -- Build a story -- Story in a picture -- Our own special book -- A rhyme for me -- Social/emotional activities -- Go, change, hunt -- I'm special necklace -- Tall towers -- Picture a memory -- Handprint -- Touch a color -- Circle walk -- Math activities -- Found objects graph -- Napkin shapes -- Cereal sorting -- Biggest to smallest -- Count with your ears -- Pretzel shapes -- Find your match -- Calendar time -- Mirror magic -- Science activities -- Shaving cream shapes -- Take a closer look -- Neighborhood shapes -- Cooking with kids -- Indestructible -- What's that smell? -- Picture/scent cards -- Color drops -- Shape snacks -- Art activities -- Shape rubbings -- Texture collage -- Build a sculpture -- Finger paint with a twist -- Wild watercolors -- Egg carton caterpillars -- Stamp a scene -- Rainbow streamer -- Sound and music activities -- Get together! -- Musical art -- Do I hear a--? -- Quiet and loud -- Making maracas -- Shapely instruments -- Freeze dance -- Dramatic play activities -- Body shapes -- King or queen -- Playhouse -- Box city -- Pretty butterfly -- Slithering snake, crawling caterpillar -- Kid train.