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Welcome to Child Care Links' lending library.  
You may stop by our office or e-mail your request to us if you are unable to come to our office.  All resources are checked out for a period of 2 weeks unless otherwise notified. "Call your home visitor."

Activity Ideas, Crafts and Curriculum

100 Things for Kids to Make & Do
197 pages

 

500 Five Minute Games
270 pages

 

Any Day is a Holiday Party Book
223 pages
Parties for kids of any age

 

Backyard Roughing It Easy
180 Pages
Recipes for outdoor cooking plus great
ideas for creative outdoor fun

 

Big Learning for Little Learners
487 pages

Cabin Fever Relievers
79 pages
Great ideas for indoor fun

Children Around the World
79 pages
A themed approach to cultural awareness with reproducible pages

Children's Games Made Easy
125 pages

Craft & Ideas for young Children
1 ½ hrs

Explorer’s Guide
80 pages & CD
Helping children explore science in the world around them

Games to Play With Babies
256 page

Great Big Holiday Celebrations
221 pages

Green Thumbs
134 pages

Growing Creative Kids
95 pages
Creative art in the kitchen, at play, storytelling, block play, music & dance

Growing Happy Kids
95 pages
Make kids feel loved, be healthy & positive, friendly, be emotionally secure, & family oriented

Growing Responsible Kids
95 pages
Deals with self discipline, nurturing a good work ethic, deals with family challenges, community responsibility, social skills, anti bias attitudes, & environmental awareness

Growing Thinking Kids
95 pages
Skill builders, discover similarities & differences, understanding relationships, putting things in order, & giving things value

 

Holidays
79 pages

International Children
136 pages
Customs, costumes, maps, & flags with reproducible pages

Little Hands Art Book
156 pages
Arts & crafts for 2-6 year olds

Little Hands Big Fun Craft Book
144 pages

More Story S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-R-S
254 pages
Activity ideas to expand children's favorite story books

Rainy Day Activity Book
107 pages

Seasonal Fun
118 pages

The Home Stretch
87 pages
Home activity Guide

The Right Stuff for Children Birth to 8
154 pages
Selecting play materials to support development

 

You & Your Small Wonder
157 pages
Activities for parents & toddlers on the go
Special Needs & Child Abuse Issues
Nutrition
The Lighter Side of Child Care
Health & Emergency/First Aid
Community Resourses
Child Guidance
The Business of Child Care
Book Sets
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Activity Kits
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Child Guidance                              Special Needs & Child Abuse Issues

Body Parts
Formerly Break the Mold Kit

 

Broccoli Power & Veggie Friends
Story book and activity ideas


Food Activity Kit

Includes plastic food, tableware, storybooks for children

Glow Bar - Hand Washing Kit
Glow bar to show where hands have been cleaned, includes fun video & sticker for clean hands

 

Grocery Store Kit

Gross Motor Skills Kit

 

Hand Puppets

 

Heart Power Kit

Let's Get Moving

 

Mr. Potato Head
Lots of Potato Head toys

 

Numbers & Letters Kit

 

Oral Health Kit

Parachute Play

Pretend Play - Dress Up Kit

Problem Solving

 

Sensory/Fine Motor Skills for Infants

Shapes, Number, Colors, & Letters for Infants & Toddlers
 

Textures


Child Care Links' Resource Library

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2 Feet

An Apple A Day

 

Angus Thought He Was Big

 

Come Into My Garden

Company's Coming

Count on Bunnies

Crunchy, Munchy Cookies

Ding-a-Ling-a-Ling

Eating the Alphabet

Eeny, Meeny, Miney Mouse

Farmer McFee

Hop to the Top

How Many

I Love Snow

Let's Go

Munchsters Talk About Food

My Five Senses

 

My Five Senses - A Lion's Tale

 

Off to Grandpa's

Paper Party

Pass the Cheese, Please

 

Rainy City Rainbow

Root-a-Toot-Toot

 

Sand

Step Inside the Rainforest

The Mystery of Magnets

The Race

 

Two Feet

 

Under the Sea

What's the Shape

Where's the Puppy

 

Which Way Now?

Who Lost A Shoe

   
Google
 

101 Ways to Build Enrollment 

Creating Better Family Child

 

Care Jobs
40 pages

 

Developing & Administering a Child Care Center
542 pages

 

Family Child Care 2006 Tax Workbook

Family Child Care Marketing Guide
135 pages
How to build enrollment & promote your business as a child care professional

Family Child Care Record Keeping Guide
196 pages

 

Getting Started in the Business of Family Child Care
16 pages

 

Guidelines for Preparation of Early Childhood Professionals
103 pages

 

Home Day Care Complete Recordkeeping System
128 pages

 

How to Start a Family Day Care
1 hour video

 

 

I Love My Job
30 min. Video

 

Making a Career of it
279 pages

Making Home Based Child Care Work For You
209 pages

Opening Your Door to Children
69 pages

 

Parent Communication Tips
64 pages

 

Places for Growing
43 pages
How to improve your day care setting

Survival Kit for Directors
84 pages
Staff management, planning, communication skills, policies, tuition, & environment

 

Teacher Tips
64 pages

The Business of Family Child Care
½ hour video

 

Tips from Tina
120 pages
Hundreds of practical ideas to make family child care easier and more fun


What You Should Know About IRS Audits


Ahead Of The Curve
86 pages
The needs of new & expectant parents

All In The Family
55 pages
Making child care provided by relatives work

 

Business to Business

Connect Kansas-McPherson County
73 pages

Connect Kansas-Reno County

73 pages

Education & Care
29 pages

Environmental Scan of Child-Related Services in Kansas
235 pages
County inventory, statewide child related data & maps 

Financing Child Care in the USA
140 pages

Grassroots Advocacy Handbook
How to begin getting your opinion heard

Help Workers Boost Their Paychecks
31 pages
Explains the earned income credit

Informing Parents About Child Care Subsidies
7 pages

Insuring Kansas Children

Invest Early-Good beginnings last
55 pages
2003 Kansas Kids Count Data Book

Kansas Teen Report
24 pages

Making a Career of It
279 pages
Report on career development & education

Measuring Progress & Results in Early Childhood System Development
28 pages

Not By Chance
13 pages

Nurturing Children After Natural Disasters
16 pages

Preparing Practitioners to Work With Infant, Toddlers, & Their Families
28 pages

 

Reframing the Business Case for Work/Life Initiatives
26 pages

Seven Lessons of Early Childhood Public Engagement
45 pages

The Future of Children Series
10 Book Set

Voice of Kansas Kids
39 pages
Kids answer the question, "What do you need from adults to grow up healthy & strong?"

Welfare Reform in Kansas
18 pages

   

101 Ways to Make a Child Feel Special
108 pages

Dexter’s Business Builders
217 pages
200 motivational thoughts

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
255 pages
Simple ways to keep daily responsibilities & household chaos from taking over your life


Life Compass For Women
173 pages
Guidebook on life management for busy women

Life's Little Book of Wellness
96 pages
Simple suggestions on how to stay healthy & energize your life

The Dictionary According to Mommy
A humorous guide to motherhood
104 pages


A Child Called It
184 pages
One childs courage to survive child abuse

ADHD
2 hour video

ADHD in the Young Child - Driven to Redirection
202 pages

A Place for Me
Include children with special needs in your early childhood setting
85 pages

Children With Special Needs in Day Care Homes
158 pages

Children with Special Needs in Early Childhood Settings
128 pages

The Explosive Child
314 pages
new approach for understanding & parenting, easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children

The Future Of Children-Domestic Violence & Children
142 pages
Protecting children from abuse & neglect

Ghosts From the Nursery
An eye opening account tracing the roots of violence
364 pages

Including Children With Special Needs
230 pages

The Inclusive Early Childhood Classroom
202 pages
Practical ways to adjust centers for children with special needs

Make A Difference-Report Child Abuse & Neglect
½ hour video
The Future of Children-Domestic Violence & Children & Protecting Children
142 pages

Bakin’ Without Eggs
206 pages
Delicious egg free dessert recipes 

 

Best Kitchen Quick Tips
405 pages
534 tricks, techniques & shortcuts for the curious cook

 

Better Food for Kids
288 pages
Your essential guide to nutrition for children ages 2-6

 

Buying Meat
1 hour video

 

Cooking with Children
1 hour video

Creating Healthy Eating Habits
½ hour video

 

Dairy Free Lactose Free Diet Plan for Children & Adults
192 pages

 

Do Carrots Help You See Better?
208 pages

 

Easy Everyday Low Carb Cookbook
256 pages

Eat to Your Heart's Content
½ hour video

Eating Healthy for Kids
½ hour video

 

The Fast-Food Guide
225 pages
What’s good, what’s bad, & how to tell the difference

 

The Fats of Life
1 hour video

 

Finger Food
399 pages

 

First Meals
192 pages

 

Fix-It & Forget-It Cookbook
258 pages
Feasting with your slow cooker

 

The Food Guide Pyramid
¾ hour video

Fun with Fruits & Vegetables
44 pages
Cookbook recipes & ideas

Fundamental Human Nutrition
¾ hour video

 

The Gluten Free Gourmet
237 pages

 

Healthy Snacks
47 pages

Healthy Snacks for Kids
190 pages

Healthy Treats & Super Snacks

High Fiber Cooking
96 pages
50 recipes fiber packed to improve your diet & health

 

Ingredients for a Good Start - Today's Special
1 hour video

 

Kids Around the World Cook
116 pages
Recipes from around the world

Kids' Cookbook
127 pages
Recipes made by real kids

Low Cholesterol Cooking
96 pages
50 Delicious recipes that are low in cholesterol

 

The Math Chef

 

Mead’s Munchkins Menus
Food Program Creditable

 

The Milk-Free Kitchen
458 pages

 

Mix N Match Meals in Minutes
181 pages

 

More From the Gluten Free Gourmet
362 pages

 

More Than Mud Pies
193 pages
Nutritional activities for 3-5 yr olds

 

Mr. Food's Quick & Easy Diabetic Cooking
191 pages

 

The No Salt Lowest Sodium Cookbook
420 pages

 

Nutrition Activities for Preschoolers
236 pages

Nutrition for Infants & Children Under Six
1 hour video

 

Pasta Presto
1 hour video

 

Round the World Cookbook
48 pages

Safe Food for Children - Feeding Children Well
1 hour video

 

The Secret Life of Food
108 pages

Special Foods for Special Children
½ hour video

 

Super Snacks
No sugar, honey, or sweeteners added to these recipes
63 pages

Super Snacks for Kids
176 pages

 

Surviving the Checkout - Grocery

Shopping Survival
1 hour video

 

Understanding Nutritional Labels
¾ hour video

 

The United States Cookbook
Foods & facts from all 50 states
186 pages

What's in the Food
1 hour video

 

Wheat Free Gluten Free Cookbook for Kids and Busy Adults
213 pages

Winning the Grocery Game
1 hour video

 

Would Your Kitchen Pass Inspection?
30 minute video

 

Your Child’s Weight
458 pages
Helping without harming

ABC's  of Safety & Healthy Child Care
139 pages

 

Child Proof Your Home
½ hour video

 

Family Child Care Health & Safety
½ hour video & booklet
Childhood Emergencies - What To Do
21 pages
Sick Child Care for Parents & Child Care Providers
40 pages

1 2 3 Magic
179 pages
Discipline ideas that work when you've tried 
everything else

1 2 3 Magic
2 hour video

 

More 1 2 3 Magic
2 hour video
Encouraging good behavior, independence and self esteem

 

ABC's of Clean, Family Child Care Health & Safety, Kids & Airbags, & Stranger Danger
1 hour 30 minute video

Ages & Stages
153 pages

 

By the Ages
Behavior & Development of children pre-birth through eight years old
244 pages

 

Building Healthy Families
45 minute cassette tape

 

Character Development
197 pages

Child Safety at Home & Outdoors, Safe & Sound
1 hour 30 minute video

 

Child Safety Made Easy
126 pages

 

Children, Spaces, Relations
158 pages
Mete project for an environment for young children

 

Craft & Activity Ideas for Young Children
1 hour 30 minute video

 

Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood
185 pages

Developmental Profiles; Pre-birth to 8 Years Old
190 pages

 

Discipline in School Age Care
44 pages

Discipline, Teaching Limits With Love

½ hour video

Dreams Spoken Here

1 hour video

Germbusters
30 minute video

 

Good Kids, Difficult Behavior
147 pages

Helicopters, Drill Sergeants, & Consultants
112 pages
Parenting styles & how to deal with them

Helping Your Preschool Child
63 pages

I Am Your Child, the First Years Last Forever
½ hour video

 

I Love My Job, I am a Family Child Care Provider
½ hour video 

 

I Never Get Anything
197 pages
How to keep kids from running your life

 

Infants & Toddlers Curriculum & Teaching
345 pages
Based on CDA competency standards

 

Language Motivating Experiences for Young Children
267 pages
The importance of language & development

Life & Loss
154 pages

 

 

 

Love & Limits
48 pages

 

Make a Difference, Report Child Abuse & Neglect
½ hour video

 

Mr. Rogers Talks With Parents
1 hour video

 

Mr. Rogers Talks With Parents, Safe Active Play, Child Growth & Development
2 hour video

 

Nurturing Growth & Development
½ hour video

 

On Becoming a Family
210 pages
The growth of attachment

 

Positive Discipline
45 minute cassette tape

Raising Self-Reliant Children in a

 

Self-indulgent World
243 pages

Safe & Sound
½ hour video

Sammy's Playground Pointers
½ hour video

SIDS-Reducing the Risk
½ hour video

 

Start Early, Finish Strong
128 pages
How to help every child become a reader

Teaching Our Youngest
38 pages

 

The Art of Awareness
173 pages
How observation can transform your teaching

 

The Baby Bond
229 pages

 

The Different Temperaments of Infants & Toddlers
30 minute video

 

The Effective Parent
164 pages
Helping you become a effective parent

 

The Inclusive Early Childhood Classroom
202 pages
Practical way to adjust centers for children with special needs

 

The Power of Observation
134 pages
Observation helps caregivers become more effective

 

The Preschool Years
504 pages
Family Strategies That Work

 

The Strong Willed Child
336 pages

 

There’s Got To Be A Better Way
324 pages
Unites discipline values & strategies

 

Time With Toddlers
30 minute video

Tools for Teaching Developmentally Appropriate Practices

3¼ hour video set

Welcome A Child To A New Caregiving Setting
½ hour video

Who's Watching Your Kids?
1 hour video

Without Spanking or Spoiling
126 pages

 

Working With Children Under 3 & Take Time for Teeth
1 hour 30 minute video

 

Your Child At Play: 2-3 Years Old
226 pages

 

 

 

   


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Let's Talk About It Set

 
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