Exreme Home Make over is coming to my daycare...

Ok, so the show isn't REALLY coming to my home...but I am doing a mini make over in my daycare area. Only difference is, I am not painting, knocking down walls, and there is certainly no Ty helping me with my new daycare ideas! Oh well!
Like I have said in other posts, my wheels are turning and I have some fun and new ideas for my group home daycare! Yesterday I spent way too much time and money at Walmart and Dollar Tree gathering supplies for my new additions.
Here is some pictures of what I have added and worked on yesterday...

Here is our "Open Art" area. I know, it doesn't look like much but if you know me, you will know having glue, markers, and scissors, and craft supplies just out in the open is a BIG thing for me! So, when the kids want to have free art time, they have some starter supplies to create some fun and open-ended pieces of work.

My next adventure is making little containers of "sensory items". These containers are the first 2 of many more to come. I started out with shells that are all shapes and sizes, and an assortment of rocks. They can dig, sort, build, count ect, the ideas are endless!

As you can see... I have the containers... now I am just building up the supplies! But I love how neat and organized they look!!!

One of my biggest struggles is keeping my house looking like a house while running a daycare inside of it. When people come to my place, I really want them to notice, "oh, she has young children", not " wow, she watches 8 kids everyday and her place looks like a daycare".

This little area is our reading corner I created... thanks to Walmart and having all the college dorm stuff wicked cheap! I LOVE the classic look of the ottomans. This has become an area a child can come sit, relax, and read a book...which leads me to the next coolest thing... THEY ARE STORAGE!!! I now have an easy place to store our everyday books so the kids can get books and flip through them as they want and it looks nice with my house!

I also had a lot of fun adding the kids' pictures to my magent wall. I love having pictures up but have no room for frames and wanted something that I could take down if needed my house to look "grown up". I made clips with magents on the back, painted them black and clipped each childs picture to it... the kids had a blast picking out their own picture and naming their friends!

I had a fun time getting all of my new ideas into place... I have to be careful not to spring everything on the daycare kids all at once! But, I have a feeling they will like some of our simple, nature freindly activties and areas!!!