Church Nursery - Part 3 of 4: The During

Once we looked at it and discussed it (Part 1), and prepared for it (Part 2), it was time to work on it... thus, Part 3!

We're in!  We piled everything in a (not being used at the time) classroom and got to work filling the bins.

Play-doh, diapers of specific sizes, dot markers...

sidewalk chalk...

... and new crayons!!!

We took all of the plastic balls, toys, little people, and "food" and gave them a bleach bath, through rinse, and dried them on towels overnight.

If you give your toys a bath, be sure to "stir" them while drying every now and then so that you aren't pooling any water in one space (note the legos that are upside down...)

The next day we sorted all the toys based on age appropriateness and what they had in their rooms. 
(Do they have a kitchen?  Are there baby dolls available?)

Mega blocks, for example, were distributed evenly to three different rooms.

Once the bins were filled, we distributed outside each room, and then started filling the rooms in a standardized way.  This way, when a nursery worker goes from one room to another, things are easy to find.  (Check out Part 4... coming soon!)

We hung the new clipboards, too.

And started to fill in the cubby spaces.

Part 4 is coming soon... check out our conclusion!

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