Military Childcare near Belleville, NJ

Infant Daycare

Infant program offering a physically and emotionally safe place for your baby to explore and learn about the world around them. Shoe-free policy ensures that classrooms are clean and safe for little ones to move around. Daily routine includes time outdoors, group time, and discovery baskets for sensory exploration. Trained teachers spend time cuddling, singing, and reading to your child.

Toddler Daycare

Toddlers are on the go, exploring and learning new things throughout each day. Classrooms are kid-size in design, allowing children to do more things independently, building their self-confidence. Photos of the children’s families cover the walls of the classroom, creating a sense of community. Daily routine includes: outdoor play, circle time, dance & movement, reading, art, music, and free play.

Infant Daycare

Infant program offering a physically and emotionally safe place for your baby to explore and learn about the world around them. Shoe-free policy ensures that classrooms are clean and safe for little ones to move around. Daily routine includes time outdoors, group time, and discovery baskets for sensory exploration. Trained teachers spend time cuddling, singing, and reading to your child.

Toddler Daycare

Toddlers are on the go, exploring and learning new things throughout each day. Classrooms are kid-size in design, allowing children to do more things independently, building their self-confidence. Photos of the children’s families cover the walls of the classroom, creating a sense of community. Daily routine includes: outdoor play, circle time, dance & movement, reading, art, music, and free play.

Infants

Your baby will be in safe, loving arms as they develop important physical, social and emotional skills.

Twos

Caring teachers guide children through playful exploration while helping to establish important social-emotional skills.

Infant Program

At this age, your infant is mainly learning through observation and exploration. For example, as our Infant teachers talk and sing with your child during feeding, diaper changes and playtime, your little one is beginning to understand language and conversation. Nurturing interactions like these will fill your child’s day and can be adapted and personalized to meet their individual needs.

Toddler Program

In our Toddler program, you’ll find carefully selected equipment that our newest walkers love to climb on, crawl through and hide in while stretching their gross motor skills. Teachers also use books, toys, games and other materials to create exciting explorations into colors, shapes, science and more.

Infants

BeeCurious experiences are tailored to each infant's developmental stage and individual schedule. Educators observe and intentionally plan for each child's physical, social-emotional, and cognitive growth. The program immerses infants in a language-rich environment, with American Sign Language introduced through twenty core signs to support early communication, reduce frustration, and strengthen the bond between children and caregivers. Sensory exploration and daily outdoor experiences extend learning beyond the classroom.

Toddlers

The BeeCurious Curriculum supports active toddlers as they develop increased mobility and begin exploring the world around them. Children engage in hands-on learning centers - dramatic play, blocks, table toys, art, and a cozy area - with toys and props that change regularly to reflect current curriculum studies. Language development is central, with children immersed in daily communication and supported by American Sign Language using twenty core signs, plus additional signs tied to each theme of study. Music, movement, peer interactions, and group projects are woven throughout the day, with outdoor play twice daily extending curriculum experiences into well-equipped play spaces. Process-oriented art and sensory experiences encourage creativity and self-expression.

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.

Infants

In our Infant Program, we nurture comprehensive development by focusing on social-emotional, physical, language, cognitive, and literacy skills. Infants are supported in regulating their emotions and behaviors with the help of trusted adults, learning to manage their feelings and follow expectations. Secure attachments are formed as infants respond to emotional cues and begin to respect others’ expressions. They are encouraged to develop gross motor skills through activities like reaching, grasping, and releasing objects, while also refining fine motor coordination through purposeful hand movements as they navigate their surroundings. Language development is a key focus, with infants immersed in a rich verbal environment to enhance their listening and communication skills. They begin to express themselves through vocalizations, gestures, and babbling, following simple directions through tone and gestures. The program encourages infants to explore their surroundings with curiosity, engaging in activities that promote persistence and problem-solving. As they connect experiences and recognize familiar people and objects, infants also develop an early appreciation for literacy through interactive encounters with books and texts, laying the foundation for future reading skills.

Toddlers

Our Toddler Program focuses on fostering holistic development, supporting children in building social-emotional, physical, language, and cognitive skills through engaging activities and nurturing interactions. Toddlers develop independence, learning to regulate their emotions, seek comfort when needed, and accept guidance from trusted adults. They form positive relationships with peers and adults, use social interactions to explore their environment, and display empathy toward others. Group participation is encouraged, where toddlers balance their own needs with others, learn to resolve conflicts, and demonstrate gross and fine motor skills, such as manipulating objects, using writing tools, and refining movements. As language skills grow, toddlers express their thoughts, follow simple directions, and expand their vocabulary by naming familiar objects and people. They begin to use simple sentences and engage in brief conversations while learning social rules, such as eye contact and turn-taking. Cognitive development is supported through problem-solving, creative play, and participation in rhyming and alphabet activities. Toddlers explore numbers, shapes, spatial relationships, and patterns, laying the foundation for future mathematical concepts. Through curiosity and play, they connect experiences and develop classification skills, fostering an early appreciation for learning.

Military Childcare Program

Bright Explorers Toddler Program

Our toddler program provides a safe, nurturing environment where children learn through play, hands-on activities, music, movement, early literacy, and social interaction. We focus on building independence, confidence, and school readiness while supporting each child's unique development.

Drop-In Care Program

Child Care Program

Infant Care Program

Early Arts Child Care

Early Arts Child Care offers a small, mixed age group where 2-year-olds learn through art, play and exploration with the same dedicated educator each day, building strong, trusting connections while growing alongside older peers in a safe, nurturing, state certified, Grow Nj Kids rated environment.

Early Arts Preschool

Early Arts Preschool prepares children for kindergarten through a balanced, art and play-based approach that builds strong foundations in early literacy, math, science, social skills, and independence that will help them grow confident and ready to thrive.

Infant Daycare

Infant program offering a physically and emotionally safe place for your baby to explore and learn about the world around them. Shoe-free policy ensures that classrooms are clean and safe for little ones to move around. Daily routine includes time outdoors, group time, and discovery baskets for sensory exploration. Trained teachers spend time cuddling, singing, and reading to your child.

Toddler Daycare

Toddlers are on the go, exploring and learning new things throughout each day. Classrooms are kid-size in design, allowing children to do more things independently, building their self-confidence. Photos of the children’s families cover the walls of the classroom, creating a sense of community. Daily routine includes: outdoor play, circle time, dance & movement, reading, art, music, and free play.

Infant Program

At this age, your infant is mainly learning through observation and exploration. For example, as our Infant teachers talk and sing with your child during feeding, diaper changes and playtime, your little one is beginning to understand language and conversation. Nurturing interactions like these will fill your child’s day and can be adapted and personalized to meet their individual needs.

Toddler Program

In our Toddler program, you’ll find carefully selected equipment that our newest walkers love to climb on, crawl through and hide in while stretching their gross motor skills. Teachers also use books, toys, games and other materials to create exciting explorations into colors, shapes, science and more.

Pee Wee Prep: Infant Room (6 Weeks–18 Months)

A serene and secure space designed to support the earliest stages of development. Grounded in the Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos, our program emphasizes responsive caregiving, sensory exploration, and strong emotional bonds to help babies thrive.

Toddler program (18 months - 30 months)

Our vibrant toddler program focuses on exploration and social growth! Using the Creative Curriculum, we nurture emerging self-help skills through music, movement, and play-based learning, building the confidence your child needs in a warm, playful environment.