Carinbundi Kids Family Day Care

🌿 We love outdoor play!

Outdoor play gives children opportunities to move, explore, investigate and take safe risks.

Climbing, running, digging, collecting leaves, riding bikes and simply being outside can support:

🌱 Physical development
🌱 Confidence and independence
🌱 Problem solving
🌱 Social skills
🌱 Imagination
🌱 Emotional wellbeing

Children don’t need expensive equipment to learn outdoors. Sometimes a patch of grass, a bucket, some sticks and a little imagination are all they need.

Family Day Care, everyday environments can become wonderful places for children to explore, learn and grow. 🛝

🏡 Introducing Sheryl, one of our experienced Family Day Care Educators located in New Auckland, Gladstone.

With more than 30 years experience working in the early childhood industry, Sheryl brings an incredible wealth of knowledge, experience and passion to her Family Day Care environment.

Sheryl provides a nurturing, home-based learning environment with a Montessori inspired approach, encouraging children to explore, discover, develop independence and learn through meaningful hands on experiences.

Her program supports children to learn at their own pace while building confidence, practical life skills, curiosity and a genuine love of learning.

Family Day Care offers children the opportunity to experience education and care in a smaller, more personalised home environment, where strong relationships and individualised learning can flourish.

We are very proud to have Sheryl as part of our Family Day Care community and to be able to offer Gladstone families another experienced and passionate educator.

🌻 What does being a registered Family Day Care educator really mean?

Behind every Family Day Care educator is much more than a beautiful home environment and a love of working with children.

Our educators continually review and reflect on their professional practices, participate in ongoing professional development and adjust their practices in response to changes in legislation, regulations and service policies. This helps ensure they remain compliant with the Education and Care Services National Regulations while continuing to provide safe, high quality education and care within their Family Day Care setting.

For families, this means knowing that your educator is part of a registered service where there is ongoing support, guidance and oversight for every educators business. Families can feel confident knowing educators have the required qualifications, clearances and mandatory training in place to provide high quality education and care and focus on the health, safety and wellbeing of children in care.

Family Day Care may happen in a home but behind that home is a professional early childhood educators and service committed to the safety, wellbeing and development of every child in care.

That is something we are very proud of at Carinbundi Kids Family Day Care. 🏡✨

📚💛 Just one more story…

Reading with children is about so much more than learning words.

A few minutes sharing a book can support language, imagination, concentration, connection and a child’s understanding of the world around them.

And you don’t always have to read every word!

✨ Talk about the pictures
✨ Ask, “What do you think happens next?”
✨ Let your child turn the pages
✨ Find colours, animals or familiar objects
✨ Let them tell the story back to you

Children often want the SAME book again… and again… and again. 😆
That’s okay! Repetition is actually helping them learn.

Tonight, find a favourite book, cuddle up and enjoy the story together. 💜

What book is currently on repeat in your house? 📖👇

🌼 MEET SHELL 🌼

Introducing Shell Irvine, one of our amazing Family Day Care educators located in Gooburrum, Bundaberg. 🏠

Shell brings an incredible 21 years of experience as an educator, along with a genuine love of creating a warm, welcoming and engaging environment for children.

Her beautiful Family Day Care space is full of colour, creativity and opportunities for children to explore, play, learn and grow both indoors and outdoors. 🌿🎨

With more than two decades of experience behind her, Shell brings so much knowledge, care and commitment to the children and families she works with.

🏡 Located in Gooburrum
🌟 21 years of experience as an educator
💛 A caring, creative and welcoming learning environment

We are very lucky to have Shell as part of our Family Day Care community and can’t wait for you to get to know her a little better.

Where experience, care and learning come together. 🌼

🥦🍓 Healthy eating doesn’t have to be complicated! 🍌🥒

When it comes to feeding little ones, sometimes the simplest foods are the biggest winners.

A colourful snack plate can be as easy as:

🍓 Fresh fruit
🥕 Carrot or cucumber sticks
🧀 Cheese cubes
🥚 Boiled egg
🥑 Avocado
🥨 Wholegrain crackers
🥛 Yoghurt

Offering children a variety of colours, tastes and textures helps them explore food at their own pace and they don’t need a fancy Pinterest worthy lunchbox to eat well! 🍑

Even better, let children help wash fruit, choose what goes on their plate or prepare a simple snack. These everyday experiences build independence and important life skills too.

What’s the one healthy food your little one will ALWAYS eat? 👇

🏡 Family Day Care is so much more than child care provided in a home environment.

It is a place where children can build strong, meaningful relationships with an educator who gets to know them, their personality, their interests, their routines, their strengths and all the little things that make them who they are.

It is learning through everyday
movements.

🌱 Helping in the garden
📚 Sharing a favourite story
🥣 Cooking
🎨 Creating and exploring
🧩 Solving problems through play
🌳 Spending time outdoors
💬 Having conversations that matter
❤️ Feeling safe, secure and valued

One of the beautiful things about Family Day Care is that learning can happen naturally throughout the entire day.

At Carinbundi Kids Family Day Care, we are proud of the unique environments our educators create and the relationships they build with the children and families in their care.

Over the next few months, we will be introducing some of our amazing educators and sharing a little more about the people behind our Family Day Care community. 🏡

Each educator brings their own personality, strengths, experience and special touches to their environment and we look forward to giving our families and community the opportunity to get to know them a little better.

Because childhood isn’t something to rush through.

It is something to nurture.

Today we introduce educator Gry 💛:

⭐️ 10yrs of service
📆 Open Mon ~ Fri
⏰ 0700 ~ 1700
📍Location: Thornlands, The Redlands, Brisbane

Raising today’s handprints as our future generations footprint

For any care enquires, please message this page directly or phone our office on
4158 9644. 🏡

📢 Important Notice – Emergency Alert Test

On Monday, 27 July 2026, the Australian Government will conduct a test Critical Alert across the country. This alert will appear on all compatible mobile devices, including those on silent or 'do not disturb' settings. You will hear a 10 second siren and see a system notification on your screen.

This is only a test and no real emergency is occurring.

⚠️What you need to know:

🚨The alert will affect all compatible phones nationwide.

🚨It is normal for your device to override silent settings.

🚨 No action is required – this is a practice notification.

We wanted to remind everyone in advance so that you are aware and not alarmed by the sound.

🌟 Looking for childcare?

At Carinbundi Kids Family Day Care, we have registered Family Day Care Educators available across Gladstone, Bundaberg, Childers, Hervey Bay, Gympie and Brisbane. 🏡

If you’re looking for a personalised, flexible childcare option, Family Day Care could be the perfect fit for your family.

Our educators offer quality education and care for babies, toddlers, preschool-aged children and school-aged children, with flexible care arrangements to suit a variety of family needs.

✨ We offer care 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, supporting families:

✔️ Day care
✔️ Early mornings or late nights
✔️ Weekends
✔️ Irregular hours
✔️ Overnight care

Every child deserves to feel safe, supported and valued. Our educators provide nurturing, home-based learning environments where children can build confidence, develop meaningful relationships and thrive through play-based learning.

✅ Child Care Subsidy (CCS) and Additional Child Care Subsidy (ACCS) approved service.

If you’re exploring childcare options or would like to learn more about Family Day Care, we would love to help.

📩 Send us a message or give our team a call on (07) 4158 9644 to discuss your family’s childcare needs.

Family day care- your flexible child care choice.

Happy Mother’s Day 🌸

Today we celebrate all mums, grandmothers, step mums, foster mums, carers and all mother figures who play such an important role in the lives of children.

Thank you for the love, guidance, support and care you provide every single day. Families are at the heart of our community and today is about recognising the incredible impact that nurturing and supportive people have on children’s lives.

From all of us, we hope you have a beautiful day filled with love, appreciation and special moments with those around you. 💐