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Play-Based Child Care Curriculum. The Creative Curriculum for Family Child Care is a play-based curriculum that emphasizes a warm, responsive relationship between provider and child and a rich educational environment. The majority of children's learning and development occurs spontaneously during child-led free play.
This document aligns the domains and domain elements in The Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework: Promoting Positive Outcomes in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children 3â5 Years Old with the objectives, dimensions, and indicators of The Creative CurriculumÂ® for Preschool: Objectives for Development & Learning. References U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2010).