Nous changeons le nom de nos crèches ! Nos crèches Cap Canaille-Babilou deviennent KidsCare ! Ce changement reflète notre évolution. KidsCare incarne les valeurs fondamentales qui ont guidé notre parcours jusqu’à présent, en y intégrant les nouveautés. C’est la consécration des grands projets apportés dernièrement en crèche, des extra days, à la nourriture bio, en passant par notre concept All Inclusive ! Cette étape illustre également notre engagement envers la planète. L’écoresponsabilité est toujours au cœur de nos préoccupations. Nous sensibilisons les enfants à la protection de l’environnement et adoptons des pratiques durables dans nos crèches. Nous changeons de nom,...
Halloween open house at Babilou Mies Our daycare welcomes you for its open house If you don’t know our Babilou daycare center, located near Versoix, this is the opportunity to come and visit us. Our team invites you to discover us in a different light. While your child is participating in one of our special Halloween activities, you can take a tour of our facilities with educators, from the nursery to the preschool rooms. We always like to welcome families in our place. On the program of our open house, various workshops will be available in the Mies daycare, from...
Short terms contracts are available in our daycare centers during the holidays ! Is your children’s daycare closing for a few weeks of vacations? Are the grandparents not available because they have decided to go explore the Swiss mountains? Would you like to introduce your child to group living and try out this type of care ? Our Babilou – Cap Canaille daycare centers have the solution ! Our daycare centers are available to welcome you on a short-term contract this summer. This possibility is open from June to September, for a minimum of two weeks. You can find this option...
How to create online memories safely for your children There’s a multitude of memories created during childhood. A few years ago, a lot of families were still choosing huge photo albums to preserve them, but this tradition is slowly becoming a bit outdated now that we are in the era of the smartphone and taking cute pics every day. Some parents use social media to keep track of everything that happened to their children. It could be dangerous for two reasons: first we are never sure of the real privacy of our account. Even “private” one can be hacked in...
Tips & tricks to help you during the settling period Especially for children aged 18 months to 4 years For the first time, you will go to our Babilou daycare with your child, and during the settling period, your whole family will encounter new situations. At the daycare, you will have the assistance of our entire team, and more particularly the primary care giver of your child. But do you know that there are tricks you can apply before even starting? We have you covered with some tips to ease these first days ! Children feed on adults emotions and...
How to prepare your baby in the best way for their first days at the daycare? Advices for 3 to 18 months infants The settling-in period, as we call the first weeks in our Babilou daycares, is a curious time for parents and children. During the adaptation time, you will both discover many new situations. It may be one of the first times you will entrust a professional with your child. Babies often associate separation with insecurity and loss, making the first days in a nursery particular: To help you integrate your new Babilou daycare, our pedagogical team gathered...
It is not on the lawn but in our Babilou Mies daycare that the Rugbytots coaches met the families last month for an introduction to Rugby for toddlers. After the great success of this first session, the coaches come back with their oval (foam) ball to offer you a more in-depth playful program with a package of 6 sessions. Every Saturday morning until June 30th, children and parents will meet with the coaches to discover rugby through games and exercises. for awakening and motor skills. At the daycare, the rules are simple: no tackle, no contact and no competition. The...
New Year’s, Epiphany, Chinese New Year’s, the winter holidays, every day is different! All these dates offer many opportunities for us to organize fun activities and parties within our daycares. Our educational teams are not lacking in creativity and enthusiasm to celebrate such events, quite the contrary! One of these celebrations began all over the world in January and will end in a few weeks in May! What is it? It’s Carnival of course, which is always a moment looked forward to by all! At the Babilou Mies daycare, our team celebrated this tradition on February, 13, Mardi Gras day,...
Just the once, starting a new year rhymes with starting new activities. Are you still hesitating between gym and yoga, are you still looking for an activity with your 3 months old? Whether you live in Lausanne, near Geneva or on the Fribourg side, don’t panic, Babilou takes care of everything in order for you to experience beautiful surprises in 2018. And the icing on the cake is that what we are proposing here is a range of workshops for the parent-child duo. We guarantee a unique moment with your little one and a great bonding experience! Whether your child...
Christmas is coming and you are still looking for a gift idea for your child? Here Groupe Babilou gives you a few ideas based on your child’s needs! Imitating, building, taking apart, creating… children transform their daily actions into games. While playing, children will not only test their skills on toys but develop new ones. However, as a parent, faced with the number of choices, it is sometimes difficult to find toys adapted to your children’s needs. Here are some ideas for children according to their stage of development. Motor and Sensory Games Motor and sensory games allow children to...
It’s the first time the Signal de Bougy and Groupe Babilou join forces to organize a Halloween party: come join us and take the “Creative Spooky Halloween Tour” which was especially designed for the party. In a magical and fun atmosphere, your children will venture on a playful and creative journey through a haunted and spooky obstacle course with many stops on the way. With the help of the Cap Canaille Rolle team from Groupe Babilou, children will dress-up, join the Halloween parade and during craft stations make their own witch or wizards hats. Children will also get to enjoy...
Babilou & Cap Canaille daycares of the Groupe Babilou network met for the first time at the French-speaking Switzerland’s Baby & Kid Planet fair, an important event for future parents and new parents in the Lausanne region. Babilou Mies, Cap Canaille Rolle as well as Cap Canaille Morges daycares took turns at the fair in Beaulieu Lausanne from October 6 to 8 to present their educational program, their approach to bilingualism and answer families’ questions. While the youngest children had fun exploring our obstacle course, the older ones took part in our contest to win a free invitation to attend a...
We are pleased to announce that the Cap Canaille bilingual daycares have decided to join the Babilou Group! This choice was motivated by different reasons, including the sharing of common values of respect, team spirit, quality and diversity; the place given to families as first educators of their child; the choice of a pedagogical approach that builds self-esteem in children and encourages them to learn to be independent; while respecting each child’s individual pace. With six daycares now in French-speaking Switzerland, the Babilou Group wishes to support more families in their quest to balance their family and professional lives, by...
Children at Babilou Mies met recently, Valentine and Lionel, coaches from “Energy Kids Academy”. “Energy Kids Academy” is a group of professionals dedicated to teaching sports to children. As soon as the coaches arrived, they transformed the Babilou Mies garden into a well-equipped obstacle course and sports field. Using stories, Valentine and Lionel got the children in the toddler (18-36 months) and preschool (3 years old and up) groups moving. They were given 5 different challenges: with great creativity and imagination the children avoided crocodiles, walked through tunnels, jumped in and over puddles, hopped like bunnies and threw rockets into...