European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 22, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 child care in Homes essential b Mike ii Ronemus staff writer Wil Flecken. Germany child care needs of inc nearly 3,000 family members in inc Community arc being Inci but not Wii Houi Home child care providers. Fifty nine providers ire registered with the child development services at the Mountaintop Headquarters of the wild Flucken training area said Peggy Ryan family child rare director. Those providers have Aboul 75  of the children in child care programs at wild Decken she said. In fiscal 1985, Usa heur reported 3,145 certified Home care providers said Penny Schneider the command s family child care coordinator. Abo isl 14,466 children were card for in Hose army Homes daily she said. Child care providers operate independently bul must he certified by child development services. Thai Means each must Lake Basic training initially and annually to qualify Ryan said. Within the first six months a Home care provider must talc 20 hours of training in health and safely cardiopulmonary resuscitation first Aid nutrition indicators of child abuse and neglect find child development. Within the first six months a Home care provider must Lake 20 hours of training in health and safely card Ppul monary resuscitation first Aid nutrition indicators of child abuse and a Coleci and child development. It lakes 38 hours of training in be certified by child development services. Home care providers must finish 50 hours of training by inc end of the first year and must Lake 24 hours of training each year after that Ryan said. Home child cart provider Nancy Farr holds Andy seput Vida Cne of her daily charges in wild Flucken Germany. By Tiky by Cdr Ryan provides or arranges training which is usually free. The wild Flecken military Community recently paid j8.m10 for a University of Southern California course for Home care providers. Twin in four people completed the course. Wilh limited child care facilities Avail Able on Pinsl the Home care providers Are an i Morlani asset to the Community Ryan said. They re More than  she said. They re really  Many of the Home care providers Are Nuney for helps her dwt her. Lindsey pour Rice through a fennel while visitor in Rin us so a her painting final look in Farr s . Doing child development activities Simi Lar to those done in inc preschool. Ryan said. Some classes Ryan gives and monthly meetings of Home care provid ers present ways they can provide such activities in their Homes she said. One such Linic program is done by Nancy fair. She draws upon one year s experience working for child development services at wild Ducken the us i raining Ami a Loi of understanding on the part of her family to make ii work. Farr has so up her Home much like the Post s preschool is arranged with activity centers. She docs food activities in her Kitchen. Puzzles Are slacked on her dining room table according to the age Lor which they Are design co. She has a Box full of old clothes for dress up and dramatic play. Toys she has saved from her sons childhood Are in a Corner of her living room. Water play and science experiments arc done in 3 Small bathroom adjacent to the living room. The cushions on the floor in one Cor Ner of a son s bedroom serve As a quiet Corner for Reading. Her 2-year-old daughter and the other four children she cares for especially like the Coffee Able used for Art and crafts projects and the plastic tub full of Rice and split peas she uses As a substitute Sandbox in her Kitchen. She also lakes care of a 5-Monih-old infant. She looks after the children from 7 . To 6 . Weekdays. With few exceptions Farr reserves weekends for her family. I have some organized activities for the kids each Day Farr said. I read them a Story and a poem each Day. We go outside each Day. If the weather s bad we at least go out on the  fair s program is the Ideal Ryan said and not All Home care providers have done so much. Aboul 50 percent of them do have some sort of organized activities  Ryan said. A Tot More Are excited about what they can do now that they be graduated from the us  each child care provider sets her own rates Ryan said. Most of the toys and materials fan uses have been collected Over the years or Are innovations she dreams up. Like a Sheet Over the dining room table to make a Lent. Child development services has a growing Stock of toys books tapes up zilch and other materials that Home care providers can use Ryan said. Some of the materials Are grouped so thai Home care providers can present a Loial unit of activities. For instance books drawing Sec nails and plastic toys Aboul dinosaurs can be used to Leach about them. Transportation and helpers in the Community materials arc also available among others Ryan said some preschool materials like tubes filled with different substances that make a noise when shaken can be improvised at Home Kyan said. Using 35mm plastic film canisters filled with Rice Beans and Home care providers have about 75 per cent of the children in child care programs at wild Luecken Peggy Ryan director such can be made so children can shake them and try to find another that sounds just the same. Those homemade items can Cut the. Care providers Cost while offering the children important learning activities Ryan said. My biggest Cost is an supplies Farr said. Those supplies especially paper cannot be provided in great amounts Ryan said. The child Divelo Pumeni services has a books i with recipes that will help Home care providers Cut costs on arts and crafts materials. Several kinds of paste dough and paint which can be made from House hold items Are included in the Booklet. One of the recipes cells How to make  a s basically co starch and water with food colouring added Ryan said. The kids just love in because it seems solid hut when you pick in up it melts in your hand and runs through your