How much do your mindees take home with them?

[clare458]

I look after 3 children aged between 2 and 3 on the same days, 3x a week. They have access to toys, playdough, sand, books, outside etc all of the time. Sometimes they choose to paint and have a picture to take home or we cook and they take home whatever they've made. At Easter they made some chick masks and took them home. So it varies from week to week. One of the parents I feel almost wants her child to produce something everytime she comes. But quite often it is her child who doesn't want to do what I've planned because she likes and is quite able to choose herself what she'd like to do. I find. How does this work for other cm's?

Some days they take home baking/painting/craft item... but I'd say half the time they take home nothing... we have been busy visiting the common and the animals there... or been at the library/park... been playing in the paddling pool in the garden etc.

Sometimes they take home a pile of stuff too huge to carry and other times nothing at all. Sometimes half the children have a load of artwork and the other children have chosen to do something different. Do they have some kind of diary, so the parents know they have been doing a million and one different activities, even if they haven't been painting? Or photos, that you can email their parents to show them playing?

I would say in the main, mine take home nothing! Some stuff goes on display, some goes in a learning journal, if they really want to take it home thats ok I just take a pix.
Obviously baking and stuff goes home, but we can go weeks before they take anything home.

Not a lot for most of the mindees, some are really into craft and arty stuff and take home sticky collections of cereal boxes which are of course robots, dinosaurs etc. I don't make them do stuff for the sake of an end product, this year a lot of the older ones didn't want to do mothers day / fathers day stuff as they had done at school, so fair enough. I do often find mountains of stuff in the mindees drawers every now and again and have a mass clearout.

I wonder too if they have enough product as well, we have lots of stuff on display and piccys etc. I remember when DD was at nursery and she came home with endless A4 bits of paper with a splodge on it, was cute for the first couple of weeks then it got a bit wearing, especially as we arn't allowed to chuck any art stuff out (still got bags of the bloody things 6yrs later)

Nothing, I don't believe in an end product, it's the process that matters.

I do under sufferance happily produce the requisite cards for appropriate occasions.

I used to hate love all the rubbish beautiful artwork my children use to bring home from preschool and put it straight in the bin on the wall and so did a lot of other mums I know!

I bet my strike throughs don't work, so this will read as rubbish!

lol at [alibubbles]

alibubbles v.v.funny

Mine (similar age) may take home 5 or 6 bits one week and then nothing for weeks because it?s the process not the finished produce that is important ?especially at this age, & it would be difficult to take home a chalk drawing, water painting, foam, bubbles?..those sort of creative activities just do not ?travel well?

meant product