For
daycare facilities, the supplies and the daycare furniture are very important
necessities needed to help maintain physical environmental essentials for
infant and toddler learning. For a teacher or a facilitator, the physical
configuration can be your ally or can work against you.
Primarily,
the physical placements of furniture pieces and on spaces left open can send
the wrong signals to the children. One example is an open space in the center
and furniture pieces placed against the wall. With this, all sorts of play can
happen.
Triggers
It
had been established that children can be sensitive to their surroundings. It
comes to a point that their behaviors are cued and influenced by the spaces and
other things around. The furniture pieces can be stimulating materials.
Furniture
makers knew there is more to effective learning than the use of childhood
school furniture than scaled-down children’s furniture. Today, colors have been discovered to help
keep children calm down.
Spaces
A
completely open space sparks and invites running and rough game-playing with
the older children who are already adept at running around. When the space is
broken down into smaller ones, the children gets the meaning subconsciously.
Children
always find the spaces that can be used for running. Some are creative enough
to widen the small spaces wider for their physical activities. There is need to
evaluate the placement of the furniture pieces in a room.
Children’s activities
When
considering the space (and the furnishings to fill it up) for an environment
for toddlers, it is important to have the space not too crowded or too open.
The space need to be just right and adequate for the many activities of the
toddlers.
Actually,
this is for such activities as jumping and dance, and building with blocks.
These children would need ample floor space to build their movements from
rolling over to crawling and walking.
Having
no space for these activities for them might hinder and impede their physical
development. The younger kids also need some protected areas. They cannot be
safely places in large spaces with the other moving and walking children.
Furniture
Furniture
and other supplies for the daycare can be mixed and grouped together to have an
environment that will meet the needs of the young children with different ages,
needs, characters and attitudes and other developing things in them.
One
mistake is expecting infants and toddlers fit into an adult-sized space with
only few modifications to fill the needs of the youngsters.
For adults only
Adult-sized
facility may be easier on the caregiver. However, the daily interaction between
them and the children with the inclusion of wrong-sized environment can end up
in some chaos.
The
adult-sized chairs and other furniture pieces will become instant climbing
items for toddlers. The books that are not for infants can easily become their
teething rings, maybe even a potential choking hazard.
Child-sizing
the daycare furniture for the infant or toddler room will create a safer
environment for your young wards. Doing so will also lets you spend less time
lifting and re-directing children or bend over to pick up knocked-over items.
