Best Daycares in 21045 - Updated June 2026
Columbia Academy Thunder Hill is a private early childhood school in Columbia, Maryland, where children build confidence, curiosity, and a strong foundation for learning. Our play-based,...
Infant and Toddler Program
Infants and toddlers are given responsive care throughout the school day. We implement research-based objectives for development and learning, provide a high level of individualized attention, and engage young minds through play.
Preschool Program
In our preschool program, your child has the opportunity to develop confidence, social-emotional competence, and academic skills that are foundational for succeeding in kindergarten and beyond. Plus, they have the chance to make new friends and develop a love of learning.
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Dedicated family child care provider with 18 years of experience and a Maryland Excels Level 5 Rating, caring for children from 12 months to 5 years in a warm, structured home setting. Maryam combines...
Daycare Program
A warm, structured program focused on helping children grow into kind, capable, independent little learners. Maryam blends play, rich circle time, books, art, outdoor exploration, and gentle social-emotional teaching to build confidence, curiosity, and daily learning.
Preschool Program
A nurturing mixed-age program that blends rich circle time, open-ended art, books, science, math, and outdoor play. Maryam’s unique approach centers on raising kind, independent humans through hands-on learning, strong routines, and thoughtful social-emotional guidance.
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Discover the Young School difference. At our schools, we love creating a community that supports the working families and growing children of suburban Baltimore. Our innovative approach to early...
Infants
Using a curriculum inspired by Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE), our teachers create a strong sense of security that fuels confidence and boosts self-esteem. Our Infant Program allows your little one to safely explore their surroundings and interact with peers and teachers. The focus on active play helps to encourage natural gross motor development. Our approach stimulates all aspects of development empowering children to grow with confidence and foster independence. This leads to authentic early development skills that create a solid foundation for learning.
Toddlers
Toddler Program inspired by Reggio Emilia curriculum that support your child’s growth in natural, innovative ways. Here, we celebrate initiative to think, learn, create, and do. Program highlights include: social and emotional development, early literacy and math concepts, and sensory and scientific discovery.
Also offers: Twos, Early Preschool, Pre-K, and more
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Discover the joy of early learning at La Petite Academy. Whether caring for your baby, preparing your preschooler for kindergarten, or supporting your elementary student (up to age 12) in the morning...
Infants
Families love the balance of nurturing care and milestone development in this program. In a warm, safe, stimulating classroom, children have a primary caregiver to attend to their needs. Plus, our exclusive, milestone-focused curriculum, Learn from the Start™, was developed by our educational experts to focus on key developmental milestones specific to infants. We emphasize each child’s development, rather than specific age, because all children grow and learn at their own pace, and in their own unique way. We’re also here when you need us. Ask your school about flexible enrollment options to fit your family’s schedule.
Toddlers
You’ll love the safe environment for exploration, excitement, and exercise we provide for your active child. Toddler classrooms also feature our milestone-focused curriculum, Learn from the Start™, focused on the key developmental milestones specific to this age group, with learning experiences designed to address the individual needs of each child, in each classroom.
Also offers: Twos, Drop-In Care, Pre-K, and more
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Every day, we’re nurturing young learners and preparing children for a bright future. At Childtime, our sensitive, respectful teachers are building trusting, secure relationships with children that...
Infants
Families love the balance of nurturing care and milestone development in this program. In a warm, safe, stimulating classroom, children have a primary caregiver to attend to their needs. Plus, our exclusive, milestone-focused curriculum, Learn from the Start™, was developed by our educational experts to focus on key developmental milestones specific to infants. We emphasize each child’s development, rather than specific age, because all children grow and learn at their own pace, and in their own unique way. We’re also here when you need us. Ask your school about flexible enrollment options to fit your family’s schedule.
Toddlers
You’ll love the safe environment for exploration, excitement, and exercise we provide for your active child. Toddler classrooms also feature our milestone-focused curriculum, Learn from the Start™, focused on the key developmental milestones specific to this age group, with learning experiences designed to address the individual needs of each child, in each classroom. We’re also here when you need us. Ask your school about flexible enrollment options to fit your family’s schedule.
Also offers: Twos, Drop-In Care, Junior Kindergarten, and more
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At Celebree School of Columbia-South we are a community. As parents ourselves, we understand the stresses of raising children in this busy, technology-focused world. As educators, we share your...
Infants
Give your precious baby the best start possible at Celebree School®. Led by a team of loving and dedicated educators, our infant care program features care a tranquil setting in which your infant will be held, rocked, and cuddled during feedings and before naptime.
Toddlers
Our toddler program focuses on encouraging our children to explore the world around them. Our teachers work to help our children increase strength, mobility, and language skills, while also helping them learn self-help skills such as feeding themselves. Toddlers in our programs begin to learn social skills, such as sharing, through activities such as circle time and sensory games.
Also offers: Preschool
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At Ohana, we’re more than just a daycare—we’re a family. We offer full, part-time and drop in care, healthy meals, and potty training. Our play-based curriculum is Inspired by Montessori and Reggio...
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Columbia Academy at Kings Contrivance provides a nurturing early learning environment where children from infancy through school age grow with confidence, curiosity, and independence. Through...
Infant and Toddler Program
Infants and toddlers are given responsive care throughout the school day. We implement research-based objectives for development and learning, provide a high level of individualized attention, and engage young minds through play.
Preschool Program
In our preschool program, your child has the opportunity to develop confidence, social-emotional competence, and academic skills that are foundational for succeeding in kindergarten and beyond. Plus, they have the chance to make new friends and develop a love of learning.
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Columbia Academy Elementary and Middle School provides guidance that allows each child to develop academically while building essential life skills for college preparation. Our elementary school and...
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Columbia Academy at Kendall Ridge provides a nurturing learning environment where children from infancy through middle school grow with confidence, curiosity, and strong academic foundations. Through...
Daycare Program
Our infant program provides responsive, individualized attention throughout each day. We implement research-based objectives for development and learning, offer a high level of personalized care, and engage young minds through play.
Toddler Care Program
We implement research-based objectives for development and learning, provide a high level of individualized attention, and engage young minds through play.
Also offers: Preschool Program
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Discover the Young School difference. At our schools, we love creating a community that supports the working families and growing children of suburban Baltimore. Our innovative approach to early...
Infants
Using a curriculum inspired by Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE), our teachers create a strong sense of security that fuels confidence and boosts self-esteem. Our Infant Program allows your little one to safely explore their surroundings and interact with peers and teachers. The focus on active play helps to encourage natural gross motor development. Our approach stimulates all aspects of development empowering children to grow with confidence and foster independence. This leads to authentic early development skills that create a solid foundation for learning.
Toddlers
Toddler Program inspired by Reggio Emilia curriculum that support your child’s growth in natural, innovative ways. Here, we celebrate initiative to think, learn, create, and do. Program highlights include: social and emotional development, early literacy and math concepts, and sensory and scientific discovery.
Also offers: Twos, Pre-K, Early Preschool, and more
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Children’s Manor Montessori School Ellicott City is a private Montessori school offering care and education for infants through first grade in a nurturing, hands-on learning environment. Guided by...
Infants
Our Infant Care and Toddler Care Program is designed to foster early childhood development in a supportive and engaging environment. Discover how our curriculum encourages curiosity and independence in your little one's first steps towards education.
Toddlers
Our Infant Care and Toddler Care Program is designed to foster early childhood development in a supportive and engaging environment. Discover how our curriculum encourages curiosity and independence in your little one's first steps towards education.
Also offers: Primary Program, Honors, Pre-Primary Preschool
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Discover the joy of early learning at La Petite Academy. Whether caring for your baby, preparing your preschooler for kindergarten, or supporting your elementary student (up to age 12) in the morning...
Infants
Families love the balance of nurturing care and milestone development in this program. In a warm, safe, stimulating classroom, children have a primary caregiver to attend to their needs. Plus, our exclusive, milestone-focused curriculum, Learn from the Start™, was developed by our educational experts to focus on key developmental milestones specific to infants. We emphasize each child’s development, rather than specific age, because all children grow and learn at their own pace, and in their own unique way. We’re also here when you need us. Ask your school about flexible enrollment options to fit your family’s schedule.
Twos
This classroom is the perfect environment for terrific 2-year-olds. As your child grows more active, becoming an explorer, we provide a safe, engaging environment for them to develop. Learning experiences for 2-year-olds are based around key developmental milestones for this age group, as defined by our exclusive Learn from the Start™curriculum. We’re also here when you need us. Ask your school about flexible enrollment options to fit your family’s schedule.
Also offers: Toddlers, Drop-In Care, Pre-K, and more
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Every day, we’re nurturing young learners and preparing children for a bright future. At Childtime, our sensitive, respectful teachers are building trusting, secure relationships with children that...
Infants
Families love the balance of nurturing care and milestone development in this program. In a warm, safe, stimulating classroom, children have a primary caregiver to attend to their needs. Plus, our exclusive, milestone-focused curriculum, Learn from the Start™, was developed by our educational experts to focus on key developmental milestones specific to infants. We emphasize each child’s development, rather than specific age, because all children grow and learn at their own pace, and in their own unique way. We’re also here when you need us. Ask your school about flexible enrollment options to fit your family’s schedule.
Twos
This classroom is the perfect environment for terrific 2-year-olds. As your child grows more active, becoming an explorer, we provide a safe, engaging environment for them to develop. Learning experiences for 2-year-olds are based around key developmental milestones for this age group, as defined by our exclusive Learn from the Start™curriculum. We’re also here when you need us. Ask your school about flexible enrollment options to fit your family’s schedule.
Also offers: Toddlers, Drop-In Care, Pre-K, and more
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Art of Learning is a premier, licensed early childhood academy dedicated to providing a high-quality educational foundation. The school follows a holistic curriculum that balances kindergarten...
Daycare Program
At Art of Learning, our infant care program offers a warm, nurturing, home-like environment with individualized, responsive care. We focus on building secure relationships and supporting early development through gentle routines, creating a calm space where infants can grow and thrive.
Toddler Care Program
In the Toddler room, energy meets discovery! We support emerging independence and language skills through music, sensory movement, and hands-on play. This interactive setting helps toddlers build physical confidence and early social bonds while exploring their world in a safe space.
Also offers: Preschool Program
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Home-based childcare program offering developmentally appropriate learning activities. Exploration and observation are encouraged through hands-on activities. Building blocks, toys, dramatic play...
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Your child’s bright future begins here. Our programs are designed to educate the whole child, nurturing their social-emotional and academic growth while building a foundation for lifelong success.
Infants
Give your precious baby the best start possible at Celebree School®. Led by a team of loving and dedicated educators, our infant care program features care a tranquil setting in which your infant will be held, rocked, and cuddled during feedings and before naptime.
Infant Care Program
Also offers: Toddlers, Toddler Care Program, Preschool, and more
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Children’s Manor Montessori School Columbia is a private Montessori school offering care and education for infants through kindergarten in a nurturing, hands-on learning environment. Guided by...
Infants
Our Infant Care and Toddler Care Program is designed to foster early childhood development in a supportive and engaging environment. Discover how our curriculum encourages curiosity and independence in your little one's first steps towards education.
Toddlers
Our Infant Care and Toddler Care Program is designed to foster early childhood development in a supportive and engaging environment. Discover how our curriculum encourages curiosity and independence in your little one's first steps towards education.
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Building Kidz of Columbia is a child care center, serving infants through pre-K 4, who strives to develop the whole child (emotionally, socially, and academically) through exposure of performing arts...
Infants
In this class we brighten up the world by helping our youngest children discover their senses, explore their surroundings, nurture their development and celebrate their milestones. From one-on-one interactions that help build nurturing relationships in everyday moments to age-appropriate books to support speech and language development, our classrooms provide the ideal setting for the youngest children. We are also encouraging children to work on finger painting, music, and pretend play to spark creativity while also exposing them to structures to help with perceptual motor development. When children leave this classroom they will have a Brighter Beginning to the world around them.
Young Toddlers
Our classroom provides an ideal environment to foster individual development and self-help skills. We use a scaffolded approach to learning through systematically building on students’ experiences and knowledge as they are acquiring new skills in order to enhance learning and aid in the mastery of tasks. Their curious minds are exposed to an enriched curriculum focusing on language development by using pictures, books and basic academics in their environment. Following simple instructions is implemented through circle time, story time, art, and curriculum projects. Besides the social, emotional development, we also focus on developing fine motor skills through fun and sensory activities. Our Little Explorers are ready to put to practice their newfound independence by exploring their surroundings as they come with a Brighter understanding of their world around them.
Also offers: Older Toddlers
Speaks Spanish
Bet Yeladim is an award-winning Jewish preschool and child care in Columbia, MD, dedicated to providing exceptional early childhood education for children 8 weeks to 5 years in a nurturing,...
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Toddler Care Program
Also offers: Bet Yeladim Preschool
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Cradlerock Children's Center is a licensed, non-profit childcare facility offering a play-based curriculum with S.T.E.A.M. learning for children aged 6 weeks to 5 years. It provides a nurturing...
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At my in-home daycare, I'm dedicated to creating a safe and nurturing environment where every child is cherished and encouraged to grow. My mission is to partner with parents in fostering each child's...
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Early learning program catering to toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children. Curriculum features a STEAM-based approach.
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Early education program serving infants, toddlers, and preschool-age children
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Kids Habitat II is a licensed childcare center providing a nurturing environment for children to develop emotionally, socially, and physically. It emphasizes learning through play and social...
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Home daycare serving infants, toddlers, and preschool-age children. Play-based learning environment is implemented to help foster child development in areas of cognitive, physical, and...
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A home-based daycare provider that offers learning environment for children. Daily lessons cover alphabet, colors, shapes, numbers, and seasons. Activities include painting, LEGO time, music,...
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A unique, high quality, Montessori inspired in-home daycare that blends the Montessori philosophy with the joy of free play. Provider holds a degree in Early Childhood Education and has created an...
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Morning Dew Family Childcare offers comprehensive childcare services that cater to the needs of families in Columbia MD and neighboring cities. Our childcare is designed to provide a safe, nurturing,...
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Provider offering a guided discovery approach to learning that is child-centered, creative, and challenging. Children are given the freedom to communicate and make choices in order to understand the...
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Kindergarten readiness program offering hands-on learning experiences for preschool-age children.
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Regina Maier Manuel Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Oakland Mills in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Rashida Iqbal Vohra Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Owen Brown in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Keith Miller Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Oakland Mills in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Sharon Green Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Oakland Mills in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Sara Fox Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Oakland Mills in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Djuana Livingstone Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Oakland Mills in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Chanel Griffin Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Owen Brown in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Lucia Beighey Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Kendall Ridge in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Sharon Trudel Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Oakland Mills in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Sandra Moreno Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Lisa Stewart Whiteman Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Owen Brown in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Rashmi Tandon Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Owen Brown in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Tamala Reid Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Eva Marie Leong Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Kendall Ridge in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Lorena Hernandez Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Carolyn Gilmore Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Long Reach in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Doretha King Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Oakland Mills in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Yenealem Assefa Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Kendall Ridge in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Hyo Chin Lee Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Kendall Ridge in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Asifa Hussain Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Kendall Ridge in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Maryam Ghahhari Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Kendall Ridge in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Glenna Webster Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Long Reach in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Uyen Feliks Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Claudia Cuestas Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Long Reach in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Alia Malik Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Owen Brown in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Cynthia Donovan Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Oakland Mills in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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Saima Pervaiz Child Care is a licensed child care home offering daycare programs located in Long Reach in Columbia, MD. Contact this provider to inquire about prices and availability.
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FAQs About Columbia Daycares
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How many daycare providers are in Columbia?
- There are currently 146 daycare providers in Columbia. This includes full-time, part-time, and home daycare providers.
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How much does daycare cost in Columbia?
- The average monthly price for full time daycare in Columbia is $1226. This is based on provider cost data for daycares listed on Winnie.