Description: At Creative Hands Learning Center we strive to provide a quality program for children 6 weeks to 12 years, fostering social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and creative development through creative experiences and positive relationships. Our goals are: To provide a safe, warm, nurturing, stimulating, and comfortable environment where children can explore their surroundings, and create an understanding of the world around them. To respect each child as an individual with unique abilities, feelings, needs and wants. To develop positive self-concepts by creating an atmosphere geared to successful experiences. To promote character development by teaching and demonstrating the values of caring, honest, respect and responsibility. To give each child a stimulating and creative child care experience that provides him/her with the desire to learn, now and in the future. We strive to create meaningful and trusting relationships between the children, families, staff and community. We believe that children learn best through play and active involvement with people and materials in their environment. Creative Hands Learning Center utilizes Creative Curriculum. Creative Curriculum balances both teacher directed and child initiated learning, with an emphasis on responding to children's learning styles and building their strengths and interests. Creative Curriculum is a scientifically based early childhood curriculum that has been shown to improve cognitive and social/emotional outcomes in young children. Your child will participate in a well planned program, each day the teacher designs developmentally appropriate learning experiences to meet the children's needs for their age group. Our children are engaged in learning through literacy, blocks, dramatic play, toys and games, art, library, discovery, sand and water, music and movement, cooking, computers, outdoor play. Our curriculum shows teachers how to offer children opportunities to make choices, value children's ideas, help children express their feelings in constructive ways, provide appropriate play materials that support and challenge children's abilities., permit children freedom to get messy during play, promote problem solving and appropriate risk setting, provide children with ample time for creative expression, allow children freedom to explore their environment, encourage children to work independently, encourage children to see tasks through to completion, provide appropriate real-work responsibilities and jobs. The Creative Curriculum reinforces early positive growth and opens the door to lifelong learning.
Additional Information: Sibling Discount Available; Initial License Date: 03/15/2009; Area Description: Fenced Yard, Smoke Free; 1 Star Center Based Child Care and Preschool Program - Licensed Provider; Pets: Other Non-Furry Animal;Where possible, ChildcareCenter provides inspection reports as a service to families. This information is deemed reliable, but is not guaranteed. We encourage families to contact the daycare provider directly with any questions or concerns, as the provider may have already addressed some or all issues. Reports can also be verified with your local daycare licensing office.
| Type | Create Date | Due Date | Corrected Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violation | 2025-10-22 | 2025-10-22 | 2025-10-28 | Final |
| Regulation/Restriction: 5.10.1.1.3: Furniture and equipment shall be sturdy. Furniture and equipment that present a tipping or falling hazard shall be secured. | ||||
| Violation | 2025-10-22 | 2025-11-17 | 2026-02-02 | Final |
| Regulation/Restriction: 7.4.4: All staff shall complete fifteen (15) clock hours of annual professional development activities as required in the rule 7.4.2 of these regulations. Substitutes filling a staff position for less than thirty (30) consecutive days within a 365 day period shall be exempt. | ||||
| Violation | 2025-07-08 | 2025-09-12 | 2025-11-07 | Final |
| Regulation/Restriction: 6.2.5.2: Staff shall appropriately hold, touch, smile and talk to children. | ||||
| Violation | 2024-12-05 | 2025-02-03 | 2025-02-03 | Final |
| Regulation/Restriction: 5.10.1.11.2: No person in the CBCCPP shall use or be under the influence of alcohol or drugs while present at the CBCCPP. Medication prescribed by a physician or over the counter medication that does not impair the ability of staff to adequately supervise and care for the children may be taken. | ||||
| Violation | 2024-10-23 | 2024-11-21 | 2024-11-07 | Final |
| Regulation/Restriction: 5.10.3.3: Safe Use Zones For all play equipment that is thirty (30) inches or higher from the ground, including climbing equipment, slides, swings and other similar equipment, the licensee shall ensure that the surface under and around the equipment, including recommended use zones, is of approved resilient material that protects children if they fall. * Materials in the use zone shall consist of wood chips, pea stone, mulch, engineered wood fibers, sand, safety-tested shredded or rubber like material or rubber mats designed for protective cushioning; * Materials used in the use zone shall follow the recommendations listed in the most recent publication of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's Public Playground Safety Handbook regarding critical depth of tested materials determined by the height of the highest climbing surface of the equipment; * Materials used in the use zone shall be installed and maintained according to the manufacturer's instructions; * If the loose material such as sand, mulch, or shredded rubber is used in use zones, the licensee shall ensure that the material is raked regularly and replenished to maintain depth and resilience; and * If the resilient material in use zones freezes, staff shall ensure that children will not play on the equipment until the resilient material has thawed and is once again resilient. | ||||
| Violation | 2024-10-23 | 2024-10-23 | 2024-11-07 | Final |
| Regulation/Restriction: 2.3.9.3: The licensee shall ensure that all staff have met ongoing background check requirements by submitting at least once every five (5) years a Records Check Authorization form to the Division and as required shall submit to fingerprinting. | ||||
| Violation | 2024-10-23 | 2024-11-21 | 2024-11-07 | Final |
| Regulation/Restriction: 7.3.2.4: "Trainee" A trainee is at least fifteen (15) years of age, able to comprehend basic written format, and meets one (1) of the following qualifications: 1) At least a high school graduate or has completed a GED and completes the Fundamentals for Early Childhood Professionals'course or the Vermont Afterschool Essentials Certificate within the first twelve (12) months of employment; or 2) At least a high school graduate or has completed a GED and successful completion of a three (3) college credit course in child or human development or in school age care and education within the first twelve (12) months of employment; or 3) At least is enrolled in or has received a State Board of Education approved Human Services Program Certificate that emphasizes child development or early childhood education. | ||||
| Violation | 2024-10-23 | 2024-11-21 | 2024-11-07 | Final |
| Regulation/Restriction: 7.1.2.2: Staff who are counted in the staff/child ratios and auxiliary staff left alone with children and/or counted in staff/child ratio as specified in the rule 6.2.1.8 of these regulations shall obtain training in pediatric first aid and in infant and child CPR within three (3) months of beginning work in the CBCCPP and remain currently certified. | ||||
| Violation | 2023-11-27 | 2023-12-27 | 2023-12-16 | Final |
| Regulation/Restriction: 7.4.4: All staff shall complete fifteen (15) clock hours of annual professional development activities as required in the rule 7.4.2 of these regulations. Substitutes filling a staff position for less than thirty (30) consecutive days within a 365 day period shall be exempt. | ||||
| Violation | 2023-11-27 | 2023-12-27 | 2023-12-18 | Final |
| Regulation/Restriction: 7.1.3: The licensee, in consultation with the program director, shall establish written program policies and procedures and provide these to staff and to auxiliary staff left alone with children and/or counted in staff/child ratio as specified in the rule 6.2.1.8 of these regulations during an orientation training session approved by the Division prior to being left alone with children. Trainees under eighteen (18) years of age and other staff not left alone with children shall complete the orientation training within at least one (1) month of their first date of working with children. Complete written information and the orientation training session shall include: Basic knowledge of child growth and development; Routine and emergency health protection of children including health related exclusions; Safety and sanitation requirements including handling and storage of hazardous materials and disposal of bio contaminants; Positive behavior management; Supervision of children; Child accident and injury procedures including building and physical premises safety; Safe sleep practices; Administration of medication requirements; Emergency and evacuation requirements; Nutrition and food safety including prevention of and response to emergencies due to food and allergic reactions; Recordkeeping; Transportation and child passenger safety; Release of children; Respectful engagement of families; Preventing, recognizing, and reporting child abuse and neglect; including information about the signs and symptoms of sexual abuse, sexual violence, grooming processes, recognizing the dangers of child sexual abuse, and other predatory behaviors of sex offenders; Recognition of and response to the symptoms of common childhood illnesses; Preventing the spread of infectious disease; Providing developmentally appropriate activities and experiences for children; Inclusion of children with special needs; Guidelines for volunteers, partner staff, auxiliary staff, and business managers; Responsibility to comply with current applicable licensing regulations; Staffing requirements to include opening and closing; and Ensuring children have extra clothes and diapers available. | ||||
| Violation | 2022-12-07 | 2022-12-07 | 2022-12-07 | Final |
| Regulation/Restriction: 5.2.3.12: The licensee shall post the diaper changing procedure at each diaper changing area. | ||||
| Violation | 2022-12-07 | 2022-12-07 | 2022-12-07 | Final |
| Regulation/Restriction: 3.4.7.5: The licensee shall maintain a current list of the licensee or designee, staff, auxiliary staff, and volunteers as in the rules in section 7.7.5 of these regulations, as applicable in BFIS. Any changes shall be reported through BFIS within five (5) working days of the change. | ||||
| Violation | 2022-05-11 | 2022-05-24 | 2022-05-23 | Final |
| Regulation/Restriction: 7.3.2.6: Substitute A substitute is at least eighteen (18) years of age, is able to comprehend basic written format, and is a high school graduate or has completed a GED. | ||||
| Violation | 2021-12-15 | 2021-12-29 | 2021-12-27 | Final |
| Regulation/Restriction: 5.1.2: General Health Examinations: Within forty-five (45) days of enrollment, the licensee shall obtain documentation of the child's age appropriate well care exam from the parent. Documentation shall include information regarding any health conditions and medications that may impact the care of the child. | ||||
| Violation | 2021-12-15 | 2021-12-29 | 2021-12-27 | Final |
| Regulation/Restriction: 5.1.3: Immunizations: The licensee shall maintain documentation in the child's file of each child's current immunization status. * Immunization records shall include the immunization administered and the date of each immunization. The immunization record should be updated after each additional immunization has been received. * If an enrolled child is in the process of complying with immunization requirements in accordance with the Vermont recommended immunization schedule, documentation in the child's file shall include the required Vermont Department of Health form. * If a child has not had a required immunization due to a Vermont allowed exemption, documentation in the child's file shall include the required Vermont Department of Health form. | ||||
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