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Scribbles and Giggles the favorite for day-care By CHRISTINE MEYER
For Lansing Community Newspapers
What’s more fun for a kid than scribbling and giggling? Well, those things can be even better when your child gets to do them in a great learning and playing environment such as Lansing’s Scribbles and Giggles Child Care Center. Loyal parents and readers of the Lansing City Community News voted to give the center a People’s Choice award for Best Child Care Provider. One of the reasons Scribbles and Giggles is so popular is its location, which is convenient to downtown and all of the state offices. The center occupies the former Verlinden Elementary School at 609 N. Verlinden Ave. in Lansing’s established and historic Westside neighborhood. The building has a large
gym and a spacious, fenced playground, including a separate fenced space for the younger kids. Inside, the child care center occupies 19,000 square feet on the main level of the school. Each room is about 800 square feet, compared to the average day care room which is about 400 square feet, according to Brynn Kelley, the center’s owner and director. All of the toilets and sinks in the school are kid-sized as well, Kelley adds. “With our larger rooms we can do more activities with the kids and they can explore more. It gives us more options in the classroom. And the gym is very useful on bad weather days,” she says. Kelley opened Scribbles and Giggles in 2007 with fewer than a dozen children. Before that she provided inhome day care and worked in two other child care centers.
More info For more information visit the website: ww.scribblesand giggles.com or visit the center.
She has a degree in early childhood education from Baker College. Enrollment at Scribbles and Giggles now stands at 100 kids, ranging in age from 2 weeks old to 12 years old. Kelley works with a staff of 22, most of whom are fulltime employees. Each classroom, including the infant’s room, has a lead teacher and assistants. A preschool is offered for children ages 3 to 5 years old. There’s also a summer camp for school-age kids Photograph by Christine Meyer that runs the entire summer and features arts and crafts, weekly field trips and plenty Each classroom at Scribbles and Giggles is equipped with separate boys and girls restrooms, along with a sink and drinking fountain of outdoor time.
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