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SUPER SITTER

To earn this award, complete and check off each requirement:

1. Prepare for child care.
2. Plan child-care fun.
3. Care for children.

Service Opportunity _____________________________

1. Prepare for child care. (choose two)
Practice child-care skills.
Help an adult with two child-care skills, such as feeding a baby, changing diapers, giving a bath, or putting a child to bed.

Child-care skills I practiced:

1. __________________________________________________

2. __________________________________________________

Adult I helped: _________________________________________

Date: _______________________________________________

Think through child-care situations.
Act out or write out what you would do in five of the following situations. Discuss the situations with an adult.

  • A repairman comes to fix an appliance.
  • A child falls and twists an ankle.
  • A toddler throws a temper tantrum.
  • A telephone caller asks who you are and if you’re alone.
  • A baby falls and gets a cut lip.
  • A friend wants to come over and visit you.
  • A fire breaks out in the kitchen.
  • A baby swallows something harmful.
  • The telephone rings while you’re giving a child a bath.
  • A child develops a high fever.

    Make a child-care checklist.
    On a child-care checklist, include information such as place and telephone number where parents will be, when they will return, emergency telephone numbers (neighbor, relative, police, ambulance, fire department, doctor, poison control center), and child-care instructions. Show your checklist to an adult, and use it when you take care of children.

    Neighbor -
    Relative -
    Police -
    Ambulance -
    Fire department -
    Doctor -

    2. Plan child-care fun. (do both)
    Choose stories.
    Choose stories to read or tell, some that toddlers would enjoy and some that older children would enjoy. List at least three for each age group.

    Stories for Toddlers
    1.
    2.
    3.



    Stories for Older Children
    1.
    2.
    3.



    Plan creative play.
    Plan and list at least three activities for each age-group.

    Babies
    (0-1)

    1.
    2.
    3.

    		Toddlers
    (2-3)

    1.
    2.
    3.

    		Children
    (4-older)

    1.
    2.
    3.

    3. Care for children. (do both)
    Care as God does.
    Read Isaiah 40:11, which describes how God cares for his people. How can you show this kind of care to the children you care for?

    ______________________________________________________

    ______________________________________________________

    Take care of children.
    Take care of one or more children for at least two hours. Use stories and activities you planned.

    Date:

    ______________________________________________________

    Names and ages of children:

    ______________________________________________________

    Activities children enjoyed most:

    ______________________________________________________

    Service Opportunity
    Help in your church nursery for one month.


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