Vol. V, No. 2, April/May/June 2006

  1. Canadian Training Tour and Child Care Center Visits
  2. How Good Intentions Might Translate to Poor Design
  3. Developmentally Appropriate Gardening for Young Children
  4. In Response to the Question: What Does White Hutchinson Do?
  5. Designing for the New Millennium
  6. GreenGuard Environmental Institute Creates Tough Standard to Protect Children from Harmful Chemicals
  7. Questions to Ask Regarding Safety and Security while Doing a Renovation or New Construction
  8. Warm Weather Means Protecting Children from Bugs While Playing Outdoors
  9. Natural Ways to Handle Pests in the Child Care Environment
  10. The Waldorf Preschool
  11. Current Projects

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Current Projects

Belvedere Plantation, Petersburg, Virginia: Developing a preliminary plan for a children's play and discovery farm. Events include barn climber, log house building, pretend camper, pretend fishing, pretend farm, rock climbing, a dinosaur dig and a separate infant/toddler play garden.

Play Garden Design: Consulting with a top Fortune 500 company regarding creating three gardens for its new Montessori school to be opened in 2007.

Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain: Conducting feasibility and developing designs for a children's play and discovery center. The project will be owned by a Bahraini female entrepreneur. The indoor portion will include a performance area, water tables, pretend supermarket, pretend children's café, pretend house with dress-up clothing, block building, a reading room, an indoor climber, face painting, pretend henna, and a separate infant/toddler play area. The outdoor portion of the project will include an adventure play garden and spraygrounds on the roof of the building.

Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Assisting the Al Kohair Group with design, operations, consulting and curriculum development for Smart Kids in Jarir Mall. Smart Kids is a new concept that includes walk-in children's enrichment workshops, a children's play and discovery center, a toy store and a coffee shop for mothers and nannies.

Vol. V, No. 2, April/May/June 2006

  1. Canadian Training Tour and Child Care Center Visits
  2. How Good Intentions Might Translate to Poor Design
  3. Developmentally Appropriate Gardening for Young Children
  4. In Response to the Question: What Does White Hutchinson Do?
  5. Designing for the New Millennium
  6. GreenGuard Environmental Institute Creates Tough Standard to Protect Children from Harmful Chemicals
  7. Questions to Ask Regarding Safety and Security while Doing a Renovation or New Construction
  8. Warm Weather Means Protecting Children from Bugs While Playing Outdoors
  9. Natural Ways to Handle Pests in the Child Care Environment
  10. The Waldorf Preschool
  11. Current Projects

[ Index of Previous eNewsletters ]