How to Set Up a Preschool Resource Room

Written by LifeWay.com Staff

Setting up a resource room makes good sense. When purchasing, salvaging, or collecting resources to use in Bible teaching, knowing how to select and store appropriate resources is important.

Storing these resources in a central location can encourage good stewardship of materials. A resource room aids teachers in finding what they need and enables the Preschool Division director in ordering supplies. Organizing and maintaining a resource room takes time and a bit of creativity, but is well worth the effort.

Here are some ideas to get you started.

• Find a central location that is accessible to the preschool departments.
• Enlist someone to maintain the room on a weekly basis.
• Provide sturdy shelving for storing items.
• Separate resources into divisions of art, blocks, homeliving, music, puzzles, nature, books, younger preschool supplies, audiovisuals, and teacher resources.
• Label each division using colored paper on the shelf to aid teachers in looking for areas of resources (e.g., green for nature, red for art, and so on).
• Store books, cassettes, and records on shelves wide enough to enable them to be held upright.
• Shelve books under categories such as God, Jesus, Bible, church, family, self, others, and natural world.
• Store kit books with other books.
• Store wooden puzzles on shelves spaced six inches apart.
• Provide a rod for hanging dress-up clothes.
• Provide a place, such as a file cabinet, for storing old resource kit items.
• Provide labeled containers, such as laundry baskets or stacking crates, to store similar items.
• Start a file of magazine pictures for art and nature activities. These can be filed by categories such as flowers, families, and so forth.
• Encourage directors, teachers, and other church members to collect reusable resources, such as foam vegetable trays, cloth scraps, juice cans, film containers, and so forth.

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