| Opening a daycare in your home has so many | | | | they have any items they would like to donate. |
| benefits to it; the list goes on and on. One of the | | | | Over the years I've gone to businesses in my |
| greatest benefits that excites so many ladies is | | | | area asking them if they had any donations, I've |
| the fact that you can make money and stay | | | | gotten items such as envelopes, huge roles of |
| home and raise your children. | | | | paper, colored sheets of sticker paper, books of |
| This was initially why I started my daycare. | | | | wallpaper samples, the list goes on. All these items |
| I was a new mom of twins and I had an absolute | | | | can be used for craft projects with children. |
| desire to stay home and care for my daughters. | | | | It always helps to be creative, one other thing I |
| So it all worked out perfectly, I made money, | | | | did that received rave reviews is I bought a large |
| took care of my family and had a really great | | | | circular wooden table at Goodwill for $15.00. It |
| time teaching and caring for other people's | | | | was a beautiful table but too tall for small children. |
| children. | | | | My solution was to chop off the legs. |
| Many of you have asked me advice on if starting | | | | It's very important to keep in mind that many |
| a daycare is expensive. This could be farther | | | | items around your home can be turned into items |
| from the truth. To be honest with you most of | | | | that would be great for daycare. Another |
| the items I use in my daycare I had already | | | | example would be bones from Thanksgiving |
| owned. Just think about it for a minute, many of | | | | Turkey Dinners. Keep the large sized leg bones to |
| you are already mom's and have toy's laying | | | | show children and teach about bones in humans |
| around the house. | | | | and animals. |
| And if you don't you can purchase toys at | | | | Starting a daycare in your home is one of the |
| rummage sales, and Goodwill for cheap. Books | | | | cheapest businesses you can start. It only takes a |
| and toys can be borrowed from the library and | | | | short time to get things up and running. It's not |
| parents who attend your daycare can be asked if | | | | uncommon to start a daycare in one week's time. |