Transforming Your Home Childcare
From Overwhelmed Spaces to Intentional Environments.
Calm Spaces. Engaged Children. More Peaceful Days. $149
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Welcome to Your Transformation Workshop
Thank you for registering for this workshop.
This experience was created from over 17 years of hands-on work in a mixed-age home childcare setting rooted in outdoor learning, intentional environments, child-led exploration, and sustainable teaching practices.
My hope is that this workshop helps you step away from overwhelm and begin creating calmer rhythms, more intentional spaces, and a learning environment that supports both children and the educator.
In this workshop experience, you will receive practical strategies, real-life inspiration, ideas for environmental transformation, outdoor classroom guidance, and reflections gathered over years of daily work with children.
You will also find the workshop agenda, location details, and preparation information below.
You do not need a perfect program to begin creating change.
Small, intentional shifts can transform the atmosphere of your home childcare over time.
Small Steps — Beautiful Transformation
— Suzette Salmon
Workshop Experience & Agenda
Transforming Your Home Childcare
From Overwhelmed Spaces to Intentional Environments
Calm Spaces. Engaged Children. More Peaceful Days.
This intentionally small-group workshop is designed to give educators a real, behind-the-scenes look at a transformed home childcare environment.
Together, we will explore how intentional indoor and outdoor environments can reduce overwhelm, support deeper play, encourage independence, and create calmer rhythms for both children and educators.
What the Day Will Include
Welcome & Introductions
We will begin by gathering, settling into the space, and discussing the head, heart, and hand of the transformation journey.
Indoor Classroom Tour
Participants will walk through the indoor childcare environment room by room. Then we will gather and discuss:
Environmental setup and flow
Materials and loose parts
Books, invitations, and visual supports
Mixed-age learning spaces
Creating calmer rhythms indoors
Reducing clutter and overstimulation
Boundaries between home and childcare
Outdoor Classroom & Garden Tour
We will move outdoors to explore the outdoor classroom environment and discuss:
Outdoor learning as curriculum
Gardening with children
Pollinator gardens and biodiversity
Mud kitchens and loose parts outdoors
Nature-based invitations
Child-led exploration outdoors
Simple ways to transform your backyard environment
Reflection & Discussion
Participants will have time for questions, conversation, reflection, and discussion throughout the experience.
Workshop Includes
Intimate small-group experience
Indoor classroom tour
Outdoor classroom tour
Pollinator garden take-home gift
Professional development certificate
Reflection & discussion time
Opportunity to purchase loose parts and mud kitchen materials
Important Registration Information
This workshop takes place inside a real working home childcare environment in DuPage County, Illinois.
Because this experience is intentionally small-group, full payment is required to reserve your spot.
Exact workshop location and additional details will be sent after registration.