Infant & Toddler Centre

Location: 4401 Dewdney Avenue, Regina, SK
Hours of Operation: 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday
Phone: 306-949-4911

The Circle Project Infant & Toddler Centre, opened in March 2012, provides a home-like atmosphere for infants and toddlers. The Centre is subsidized and licensed by the Ministry of Education to provide quality care for 36 children between 0 and 4 years of age. Every member of staff is a trained early childhood educator.

Licensed by the Ministry of Education – Early Learning and Child Care Branch, the Circle Project Children’s Centre and the Infant & Toddler Centre are operated under the umbrella of Circle Project. We are licensed for a combined total of 106 spaces.

Both of our childcare centres provide meals and snacks everyday. All of the meals and snacks follow the the Canada Food Guide. The children are provided with nutritious, high-quality food including an abundance of fruit and vegetables. We exceed the recommended daily amounts and provide over 70% of a child’s daily nutritional needs.

The children in our care are provided with a variety of daily activities including circle time, arts and crafts and chances to explore through play. Our activities are planned with the children’s interests in mind and all from an Indigenous world view. Throughout both centres, children of all ages are exposed to cultural imagery, music and language. Our Preschool children are provided with additional enhanced culturally immersive programming, through the Cultural Connection for Kids (CCK), at no additional cost.

Our Childcare centres have been successful in receiving additional grants from the Ministry that assists licensed daycares to cover repairs and maintenance costs. The Infant & Toddler Centre received new blinds throughout and undertook an interior kitchen renovation. These repairs/renovations help us to provide safe and comfortable spaces for children to explore and play.

During the Infant & Toddler Centre dedication in 2011, three paintings were presented to the Centre to commemorate this special day: “Spiritual Guidance,” “Sacred Blessings,” and “Dancing Loon Spirit.” The Elder in attendance remarked that the paintings were so appropriate as a gift to the Infant and Toddler Centre and recounted an experience that he once had on one of his travels when he happened to stop by a lake in the evening.

“There I witnessed a wonderful display of nature; five loon families were gathered as if visiting. The adult loons were all very busy, corralling the baby loons in a circle in the middle of the lake. Once they had gathered all of the babies in the centre, two continuously circled around the baby loons to protect them from enemies and straying away. All the other adult loons departed in search of food, diving in and out of the water, a short distance away. As the others returned, they replaced the caregivers and took their turn caring for the babies, so they could look for food and so the cycle went. Adults worked cooperatively to ensure that the babies were safe while they took care of the basic needs.”

“This ice cream taste weird.” (Child was eating cottage cheese) —Q.K.

“Can I have some more trees please?” (Broccoli) —A.O.E.

Teacher asked L.N., “What’s my name?”
L.N. replied, “It’s peacher.”

“Yeah! We water her and pick up the bad weeds and she is happy and gives us yummy strawberries.” —L.J.

“I don’t like begetables!” —R.S.

“The water is cold, like Antarctica.” —C.N.

“A good place for families.” —S.I.

“It’s very warm and comfortable feeling in here.” —J.G.

“The teamwork and abilities they (staff) bring to work on a daily basis provides positive experiences and wonderful environments for the children.” —L.A.