COAD Programs: Early Care and Education: Borrow activity books from our FREE lending library for child care providers
– A Service of the COAD ECE Division

If you want an easy way to plan fun activities for the children in your care, the COAD Child Care Resource Network lending library is your best bet! We have lots of books and videos on child care and development for infants, toddlers, school age children. We also have trained counselors to research a topic for you and find answers to your questions. We can call you with information and we can send books and videos to enjoy at your convenience at home. Then we’ll send you a return envelope when they are due back. It’s simple, easy and convenient for busy providers like you. LENDING LIBRARY:

CCRN has an extensive library of resources available for borrowing. Following is a partial list of resources available. Call 1-800-577-2276 for the CCRN office in your area to learn more about the lending library. To view the resource list by category, click on the topic below, or to browse list, scroll down.

Administration
Family Child Care
Computer Games
Infants and Toddlers
Curriculum and Activity Books
School-Age Care
Diversity
Special Needs

Right click here to download the library list as a PDF file.

Administration
Congregations and Child Care
This manual was designed to help improve the relationship between early childhood programs and churches/synagogues that house or sponsor early childhood programs.

Crisis Manual
Learn effective strategies that address the most challenging problems you may encounter as a teacher such as death, sexual abuse, or AIDS with this resource.

Helping Young Children Develop through Play
Explains how play is related to development and what adults can do to support children through play.

Much More than the ABC’s: The Early Stages of Reading and Writing
This book contains suggestions on topics such as reading aloud with children, setting up a book corner and writing center, and introducing the alphabet in meaningful ways.

The Right Stuff for Children Birth to 8
This book describes the play materials that are beneficial to children birth to age 8. Includes descriptions of what children are like at that age, how to enhance their motor, cognitive, and social skills.

Speaking Out: Early Childhood Advocacy
Use this guide to reaffirm or solidify your commitment to children, families, and the child care profession.

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Family Child Care

Family Child Care: Contracts and Policies
Learn to establish and enforce contracts and policies with this resource. Effective policies and contracts can build trust between parents and providers.

Family Child Care Marketing Guide: How to Build Enrollment and Promote Your Business As a Child Care Professional
This guide will help you find inexpensive ways to promote your business. It contains dozens of marketing tips, including ways to attract new parents, how to set rates, and where to advertise.

Home Centered Care: Designing a Family Day Care Program
Hard to find information in clear, jargon-free language about children's needs, how they learn and what they learn from activities is included in this resource.

Making Home-Based Child Care Work for You
This book takes an in-depth look at: family child care as a profession, business management, budgeting, curriculum planning, communication, marketing, and more.

Tips & Tidbits: A Book for Family Child Care Providers
This resource is full of good ideas to handle squabbling, tattling, "potty mouth," eating or napping difficulties, that arise in the day-to-day life of a family child care provider.

Tips From Tina: Help Around the House
Over 500 "Why didn't I think of that?" tips that you didn't know you had can be found in this book. Tina, a former family child care provider and trainer, gathered tons of ingenious ideas for hassle free child care.

Am I in Trouble? Using Discipline to Teach Young Children Responsibility
This is a step-by-step guide to setting rules, empowering children, using humor, techniques for negotiating, and using natural and logical consequences rather than punishment.

Creative Conflict Resolution
This book includes more than 200 activities for keeping peace in the classroom. Learn how to turn conflict into a productive opportunity and how to apply peacemaking skills.

Discipline that Works: Promoting Self-Discipline in Children
This resource provides strategies to help empower children and youth to become self-reliant, make positive decisions and control their own behavior. Conflict resolution, active listening, “I-messages,” and problem-solving techniques are all detailed.

Guide to Discipline
This guide helps children with their struggle to develop self-control by discussing ways to avoid problems and handle situations in which a child bites, hits or cries.

Please Don't Sit on the Kids
This book is an in-depth look at why children misbehave and alternatives to traditional discipline. It is a great resource for group management and individual guidance skills.

Yardsticks
This is a practical guide on growth and behavior development in children between the ages four and twelve. It clues the caregiver into the “How’s and Whys” of a child’s behavior and abilities with easy reference developmental charts for each age group.

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Computer Games

Monopoly CD-ROM
Mr. Potato Head Saves Veggie Valley
Playdoh Creations
Playskool Puzzles

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Infants and Toddlers

Creative Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers
This curriculum is designed for use in both center-based and family child care settings. It emphasizes the relationship between caregivers and the families of the children in their care as the basis of curriculum for very young children.

Games to Play with Babies
Over 250 fun games to help infants develop important skills can be found in this book. It is organized into four three-month sections to keep pace with a baby’s changing abilities during the first year.

Games to Play with Two Year Olds
Easy inexpensive activities organized by age so you can feel confident that you are encouraging development fill this book.

Guide for the Care of Infants in Groups
This guide is for child care workers and others responsible for providing care for infants. An effort has been made to include some of the “why’s” of child care, because knowing more about how babies grow and develop and why they need what they need makes it more likely that the most important ingredients of good child care will be supplied.

Setting Up for Infant Care: Guidelines for Centers and Family Day Care Homes
This book gives detailed information about what a caregiver needs to do to provide a physically & emotionally healthy experience for infants.

Toddlers Together: The Complete Planning Guide for a Toddler Curriculum
Each page describes a mini-theme on skills, language to use and materials needed. 286 activities exciting enough to grab toddlers interest and short enough for their attention spans fill the pages.

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Curriculum and Activity Books

Creative Play Areas
Over 185 simple inexpensive projects designed to use with children ages two to twelve are included in this resource. Play areas are set up to a personal and enriching environment for each child using the play area.

Everyone Wins: Cooperative Games and Activities
This resource is filled with 150 cooperative games and activities, designed to help children resolve conflict, enhance communication, build self-esteem, be creative, and have fun.

Healthy Snacks
This book contains ninety new fun, simple recipes that are approved by the Child and Adult Care Food Program.

Kids Nature Book
This book contains 365 indoor/ outdoor activities and experiences for children to learn about nature.

Outrageous Outdoor Games Book
Over 130 outdoor group games and activities are included in this resource. Includes games in the sun, in the snow, in tight spots and wide-open spaces. For all day activities or just short fill-in games.

Rainy Days & Saturdays
Over 150 activities for days when children can’t go outside can be found in this resource. It includes sections ranging from mysterious fun to scientific stuff, creative thinking to magic tricks.

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School-Age Care

Activities for School-Age Child Care
This eighty-page guide to program planning that covers eleven activity areas from stitchery to sand. Planning and resource ideas are explained while incorporating a philosophy and a rationale for the programming.

Discipline in School-Age Care: Control the Climate, Not the Children
In this resource, school-age child care staff are asked to rethink their attitudes of behavior and discipline in children. Rather than blaming the children for the behavior problems, ask “Is their something you can change that will improve behavior?”

Games, Games, Games: Creating Hundreds of Group Games & Sports
Tired of playing the same games in your school-age program? This book shows leaders how to come up with variations of tried & true games to keep them excited.

Ready to Use Activities for Before and After School Programs
This book is filled with easy to use activities that are both challenging and relaxing for children. It includes arts, crafts, songs, science and nature.

Sanity in the Summer
This is a guide to setting up a structured summer program for school-agers. It includes how to promote your program, how to select staff, scheduling activities, plus a variety of activity clubs that can be created.

Summer Program Tips, Strategies & Activities for School-Agers 5 – 14 Years Old
This is a collection of articles from the School-Age Notes Newsletter. It includes four years worth of summer activities are articles on programming and administration, scheduling, staff training and development, safety, model programs, and more.

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Diversity

Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children
This resource is filled with practical ideas for explaining culture, gender, racial differences, and answering difficult questions.

Developing Cross-Cultural Competence: A Guide for Working with Young Children and Their Families
This book helps you understand the issues that arise when working with diverse cultures.

Friends from Around the World: Early Learning Activities that Teach Global and Self-Awareness
This book has activities to encourage children to become friends with people from around the world. It includes patterns to duplicate and enlarge will enhance classroom décor.

Multicultural Issues in Child Care
This resource focuses on cultural differences relevant to all caregiving settings including child care, nursery, and preschool programs.

Roots and Wings: Affirming Culture in Early Childhood Programs
This is a practical guide for implementing multi-cultural education in your program. It includes over sixty hands-on activities for enhancing the understanding and acceptance of diversity. It is ideal for integrating cultural awareness.

We Can All Get Along: 50 Steps You Can Take To Help End Racism
Learn more about the do’s and don'ts of using non-racist language, cross-cultural communication, and materials that reinforce positive images with this book.

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Special Needs

A Place for Me: Including Children with Special Needs in Early Care and Education Setting
This book deals with personal and negative feelings, assisting children, preparing the environment, and working with parents.

Adapting Early Childhood Curricula For Children with Special Needs
This is a valuable, comprehensive guide to developing curricula for mainstreaming preschoolers.

Children with Special Needs in Early Childhood Settings: Identification, Intervention and Mainstreaming
This is an easy-to-use, accurate reference that helps identify and plan intervention for children with special needs.

I Can’t Sit Still: Educating & Affirming Inattentive and Hyperactive Children
Protect and enhance the self-esteem of children with ADHD with this practical and supportive guide.

Maybe You Know My Kid
This is a well-researched but personal book deals with ADHD issues from birth to adult-hood. It discusses self-esteem management, behavior, useful summary lists, behavior charts & IEP guidelines.

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Videos

Business of Family Child Care with Tom Copeland
This video covers the seven most important rules of record keeping, addresses taxes, the food program, contracts, and insurance.

By Design: A New Approach to Programs for 10 – 15 Year Olds
This video of high quality program in action comes with two reference books to help plan and administer programs. It includes dozens of activity ideas, tips and ready-to-use activity plans.

Culture and Education of Young Children
This is a discussion with Carol Phillips on how programs can show respect for cultural diversity and can use this richness to enhance children’s learning.

Discipline: Appropriate Guidance of Young Children
This video outlines how to handle the difficult situations – hitting, not taking turns, temper tantrums that inevitably arise among preschoolers.

Family Child Care Health & Safety Checklist Packet (Video & Checklist)
Filmed in a real home, this video examines the safety concerns a provider must consider.

Sesame Street Lead Away Video
This fun Sesame Street lead poisoning awareness kit helps young children practice healthy habits that will keep them safe from lead poisoning.

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Email us if you wish to borrow any of the resources from our library (ece@coadinc.org)

COAD Programs: Early Care and Education: Borrow activity books from our FREE lending library for child care providers