About Kid Central
Kid Central is a small private childcare center providing preschool, daycare and before, after school care and summer day camp. Our goal is to be the best place in the Conifer, Morrison and Bailey area for your children when they have to be away from home and family. Kid Central is a safe place to play, learn, make friends, have fun and grow in all phases of development.
Our maximum capacity is 30 children, ages 3-11, at Turkey Creek Kid Central and 25 children, ages 5-11, at Conifer Kid Central. We keep a low teacher:child ratio as we believe this strongly benefits the children educationally and developmentally.
Richard Louv, author of ‘Last Child in The Woods, Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder’, shares in his book the connection between child development and nature. He provides documented evidence that shows the lower the child’s connection with nature the higher the incidence of ADD, depression and obesity. He says, “environment-based education dramatically improves standardized test scores and grade point averages and develops skills in problem solving, critical thinking and decision making. Even creativity is stimulated by childhood experiences in nature.”
At Kid Central we spend lots of time outside and see proof of Richard Louv’s findings every day. We spend a lot of time in our playgrounds and in our local parks and open spaces. We see leadership skills, inventions of games and activities and children working together. We do not see children fighting, being left out, being board or even doing the same things twice.
In both the Conifer and Turkey Creek centers we provide a variety of areas to allow children to explore their individual strengths and curiosities. Each Kid Central has a science center, arts and crafts center, building and imagination areas and of course a reading and resources area.
We offer healthy whole grain and fresh fruits at snack time. We talk about nutrition at snack and meal time and encourage the children to make healthy choices. Of course we can’t eat perfectly healthy all the time, so on Fun Fridays we have ice cream for afternoon snack.
We also talk about recycling and being green, so don’t be surprised to hear about these things when they come home from Kid Central.
PROVIDING SERVICE TO
West Jeff , Marshdale & Parmalee Elementary Schools
Montessori School of Evergreen
West Jeff Middle School
Drop off at Dance and Karate in Conifer
For a personal tour and full informational packet.
Tori Todd at Conifer Kid Central 303-838-1044
Sharon Thayer at Kid Central 303-697-9125
Sharon’s cell 303-697-4129