Originally Posted by Abigail:
I would like to know about your toy shelves and book shelves. Sounds weird, lol, but I don't like our current daycare shelves for various reasons. We have two shelves in the infant area with enough toys in that area to fill one shelf nicely. Then, we have a double-sided shorter (maybe 20 inches tall) toy shelf for the 1-5 year olds and they always just seem to climb on the top of it and toys never get put away nicely because they shelves are all so low they only come up to the child's knees. The last (fourth) shelf in the daycare is actually like two standard/small book shelves like found at Target or Kmart for $20, but it's actually heavy duty shelves. This shelf--it's actually two, but they're side by side and look like one shelf--has one adjustable shelf that the kids pull out on a regular basis. So anyways, I obviously don't want the same shelves as the daycare I work at. (Sorry for the long boring description!)
What would you recommend for a group of 6 children ages newborn to age 5.......(Someone is going to build me shelves, so I want to have a better idea of size/shape)
for the height of the shelves?
whether they're two-sided or one-sided?
whether they should have an adjustable shelf option?
I will have a limited space, but I was thinking about asking for two one-sided shelves so I could use them to separate play areas or section off open areas and basically just have more options for re-arranging. I don't know how large they should be or how many shelves or how many divider sections in them. LOL. I just want something simple but nice, that will withhold years of play too!
I don't allow kids access to anything in the shelves or the surface area of the shelves. They are trained from the time they are very little that the shelving and contents are by invite only. We don't allow the kids to take things out of the shelving or put thngs back in. When we are using one of the toy collections from the shelving we remove the container out into play. They are taught NOT to play with the container and not to dump the container.
I also don't allow climbing in the day care room so they of course wouldn't be allowed to climb in or on anything in the room.
I use these:
http://www.nanshouse.com/apps/photos...otoid=41430554
http://www.nanshouse.com/apps/photos...otoid=41430555
They are from Lakeshore.