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Daycare providers face a long list of challenges on a daily basis, centered on the difficulties of limited time, money and resources. That’s why we built these free daycare templates to provide resources to tackle these challenges and ensure childcare providers have the documents they need. Download these documents and tailor them to fit the needs of your organization. They’ll help parents, staff and children enjoy a better, more productive daycare or preschool experience.

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Daycare Newsletter Templates

Use these helpful templates to create a newsletter that will share relevant news and notes from your daycare. Develop a newsletter that will help parents and guardians stay involved and informed.

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Staff Evaluation Form

It’s important for daycare centers to regularly, accurately evaluate the job performance of all staff members. With this evaluation form, you’ll be able to properly evaluate the work of your staff.

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Child Care Survey for Parents

To run a successful daycare, you need feedback from parents. Our childcare survey will help you gather their thoughts, which you can use to grow and refine your center.

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Child Care Waiting List for Parents

When your childcare center is full, you can stay connected with the parents of prospective new students using this form. That way, when you have an opening, you can find a good fit for that opening.

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Daycare Enrollment Form

Help the enrollment process run smoothly using this form. Eliminate unnecessary hassles and help parents quickly, easily enroll their child in your center.

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Daycare Illness Form

When children are ill at your center, you want to record all relevant information to share with parents. Our daycare illness form allows you to collect that data in one place.

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Daycare Menus

Parents want to know the types of meals being served to their children. These menus will help ensure you provide acceptable meals for all students.

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Daycare Photo Release Forms

It’s imperative to have signed photo release forms for students in order to respect their privacy. With these forms, you know which children can and cannot appear in photos you use on your website and publications.

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Daycare Sick Policies

Illness is inevitable at any childcare facility. Proper sick policies provide clear directions for staff and parents when a child is ill.

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Parent Daycare Questionnaire

Use this questionnaire to help parents share their child’s daycare needs, along with their preferences and expectations. You’ll also learn about their past daycare experiences, helping you interact with their child.

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Preschool Observation Form

It’s important to determine each child’s physical and developmental needs as they attend your center. This observation checklist helps measure a child’s development in key areas.

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Preschool Parent Questionnaire

Parents know their child best and this questionnaire is a vehicle for them to share some of that knowledge with your center. It will help you learn a child’s personality, background and how best to communicate with them.

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Food Allergy List Sheet

With more children dealing with food allergies, it’s a must for your center to know any and all allergies a child has. Utilize this form to compile data that will help keep kids safe and free from allergic reactions.

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Daycare Invoice

Getting paid is a core part of any daycare. Clear, straightforward invoices help ensure timely payment and allow staff to keep accurate financial records.

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Emergency Contact Form

Emergencies happen and when they do, you want to have accurate, easily accessible contact information. This helps keep parents and guardians informed on their child’s health and well-being.

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Daycare Incident Report

Although avoiding incidents is ideal, you need to accurately document them when they happen. Use this incident report to keep a record of what transpired and all relevant details.

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Daycare Fever Policy Template

Letting parents and staff know your center’s policy when a child has a fever is a must. With this policy, you can help ensure the proper steps are followed to protect everyone’s health.

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Daily Report Sheet for Daycare

This report sheet is a great tool for tracking each child’s daily activities at your center. Use it to keep parents and staff informed on children’s eating habits, attitude and overall well-being.

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Daycare Contract

When a new child joins your daycare center, this contract will help parents understand your terms and policies. This can help you avoid potential headaches and misunderstandings.

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Daycare Allergy Form

When a child has allergies, it’s vital for your staff to know. With this form, staff members can be aware of all of a child’s allergies and ensure that child isn’t exposed to anything that will cause a reaction.

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Parent Satisfaction Survey

With this form, you can collect valuable feedback from parents about the job your daycare center is doing. That feedback will help refine and improve your daily operations.

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Medication Permission Forms

Having a signed permission form for any child taking medications is a must. Ensure that staff know what medications a child should receive and when with this helpful form.

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Daycare Tax Receipt

Tax season can be stressful, but our daycare provider tax deduction checklist will simplify your tax preparations. This helpful document highlights tips, resources and best practices in filing taxes for your center.

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Daycare Teacher Contract

Getting the right language and including the necessary parts in a contract for new teachers can be a challenge. Our teacher contract template simplifies the project and helps you onboard new hires with ease.

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Daycare Supply Lists

Help your busy staff make sure they have all the necessary supplies for every student at your center with these templates. Simplify the process and allow teacher to focus on kids, not the supply process.

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End-of-Year Letter Templates

The end of a school year is a great time to reflect on what your center, its staff and kids have accomplished. These templates are great tools for sharing the year’s highlights with parents.

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Closing Letter to Parents

When illnesses or other circumstances force the closure of your center for any period of time, you want to communicate clearly with parents. Count on this letter to get the word out and keep everyone informed on the situation.

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Daycare Termination Letter Templates

Sometimes, a child isn’t a good fit for your daycare facility. When this happens, these templates will help you communicate clearly with parents and carry out the termination process.

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Daily Schedule Templates

Setting and following a schedule is a core part of any childcare center. With these templates, you’ll have the tools you need to set and maintain a consistent daily schedule for children and staff.

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Free Daycare Letterhead Templates

Your letterhead is a key part of your first impression with parents of current and prospective students. Use these templates craft letterheads sure to help your center stand out.

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Preschool Standards Assessment Checklist

This helpful checklist allows you to evaluate a child’s progress in key skill areas central to their growth and development, including motor skills, social and cognitive skills, self-care, creativity and more. By evaluating their progress in these areas, you can provide the help and instruction they need to continue to develop and grow.

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Preschool Graduation Checklist

Preschool graduation is a time to celebrate and recognize all children have learned and accomplished, but it can also be stressful trying to put together the perfect event. Use this detailed preschool graduation checklist to ensure you cover every detail, have the necessary plans in place and are prepared for the big day.

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Back to School Preschool Activity Worksheets

Help kids learn by coloring, drawing and observing differences between similar images. By having them follow basic directions, your students can develop cognitive skills, hone their ability to follow directions and exercise their artistic abilities, creating fun pictures they can enjoy and share with their friends and families.

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Classroom Rules Posters

Classroom rules set the tone for your learning space and these colorful posters help communicate them in a clear, easy-to-understand way. With color-coded imagery, kids will be able to see the rules displayed in a way that helps them remember and internalize them, empowering them to better follow standards and know how to behave in a classroom setting.

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About Me Activity Worksheets

It’s important for kids to have a chance to share about themselves and let others know who they are, things they like and what makes them cool and unique. Use these “All About Me” worksheets to empower your young learners to tell their story and communicate all about themselves to their friends and family.

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Cutting Activity Worksheets

Mastering basic cutting skills helps kids learn, express artistic abilities and create interesting arts and crafts. Count on these simple cutting worksheets to help teach them how to safely and effectively use scissors to cut along lines and cut out different shapes and images.

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Math Worksheets

Learning math, numbers and counting plays a central role in a child’s educational and cognitive development. With our helpful math worksheets that blend fun shapes and numbers, kids learn the number skills that lay a strong foundation for future math concepts and educational progress in other areas as well.

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Sight Words Flashcards

Language development remains a building block that kids build upon to help them develop and grow across all academic areas. Use these 40 simple flash cards to help your young learners master the most common Dolch sight words they should know and recognize by the time they start kindergarten.

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Sight Words Bingo Cards

Bringing fun, engaging games into the learning process is a great tool for facilitating learning for preschoolers. Count on these sight words bingo cards to power the learning process as kids in your preschool program work to master the most common Dolch sight words they need to know.

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