You must provide an outdoor program that promotes the child’s coordination, active play, and physical, mental, emotional, and social development based upon their age.
The play area must:
Adjoin the indoor premises directly or be reachable by a safe route or method
Have adequate drainage and be free from health and safety hazards
Contain a minimum of 75 usable square feet per child using the play area at any one time. If the center uses a rotational schedule of outdoor play periods so that only a portion of the child population uses the play area at one time, you may reduce correspondingly the children’s play area size
If you provide full-time care, the activity schedule must provide the child daily morning and afternoon outdoor play
If you provide drop-in care only, at DEL’s discretion they may approve equivalent, separate, indoor space for the child’s large muscle play
You must ensure appropriate child grouping by developmental or age levels, staff-to-child ratio adherence, and maintain group size
Staff must be outdoors with the children in continuous visual and auditory range
You must provide a variety of age-appropriate play equipment for climbing, pulling, pushing, riding and balancing activities
You must arrange, design, construct, and maintain equipment and ground cover to prevent child injury
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A Simple Approach to Knowing the WAC's: Outdoor Play Area
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