For away camps, be sure your child is ready to be away from home overnight. If children need to ride in vehicles for summer child care or camp outings, seat belt and car seat regulations must be followed. Extra supervision is needed for trips away from centers or homes. The driver cannot be counted as a supervisor, so other adults need to be along. Tell your child's caregiver about ordering free educational materials from Penn State Cooperative Extension's Better Kid Care Program.
Murals can be a group effort with long sheets of paper taped to a fence or garage wall.
Easels for individual smaller paintings can be brought outside or the paper taped to a tree. Better Kid Care, a Cooperative Extension Program at Penn State, has free materials and training for child care providers. They can make collages with cut or ripped paper and things they collect in the yard such as leaves, small twigs, and pine cones. Good child care programs have many activities outdoors in the warmer weather. Penn State Cooperative Extension's Better Kid Care Program has training and free educational materials for child care providers in Pennsylvania.