Join our community of like minded families; craving a safe place, where their children are cared for in the next best place to home. Through hands on learning and exploration in a curated and thoughtful environment, combining the classroom of a quality center with the care and affordability of a home child care.
Hands on Learning
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
At Gardenia Kids, children build caring relationships and feel safe to explore and learn. Art, science, sensory, movement and nature provide a deep and magical education.
Imaginative Play
Learning Through Play
Each week, curriculum is built around the interests of the children and woven through the playroom. Through dramatic play installations, children practice essential life skills like perspective taking, empathy and communication.
Project Based Art
Learning Through Exploration
The process is always more important than the product. Children explore and build their skills through a variety of materials and mediums. Flexible and creative thinking is invaluable and should be protected and encouraged.
Outdoor Play
Learning in Nature
Nature provides the ultimate classroom. From mud pies to outdoor painting to planting seeds; we explore the our large, fenced outdoor play space on a daily basis. And our covered deck is the perfect spot for outdoor meals and projects.
Making Connections
A Love of Learning
Invitations to learn are carefully crafted based on the season, developmental age of each child and their interests. Their questions and wonder are the basis of the curriculum. Muscles for holding a pencil are built by squishing and rolling play dough. Brain connections are made by playing gross motor games. And a lovingly curated collection of books are enjoyed and rotated each week.
Community of Learning
Quality, Experienced Care
At Gardenia Kids Child Care, our mission consists of providing a warm and nurturing environment where children feel safe. Our unique child day care offers various activities that are specifically designed to encourage each child’s growth. Through cooperative play and creative activities, kids reach their social, emotional and physical milestones naturally and with ease. Great care is taken to provide each child by building strong relationships. Parent are at ease knowing their child is safe, happy and growing.Tuition RatesTwo days per week: $475 per monthThree days per week: $575 per monthFive days per week: $900 per monthHours: 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.Gardenia Kids is a Registered Family Child Care through the state of Oregon. Jennifer has certification in First Aid/CPR, Food Handler's, all required health and safety courses.
Our Family, Our Family Business
From the Beginning
Born seventeen years ago, along with owner Jennifer Eyestone's twin daughters, Gardenia Kids has been a home away from home for a community of children in southeast Portland. A full day, high quality preschool in their home that offered Jennifer a chance to channel her passion and experience as a preschool teacher and raise her own children in a loving and safe environment. Gratitude for this opportunity and the life it creates drives every decision made at Gardenia Kids; from the healthy, home cooked food, to the Earth friendly cleaning supplies and wood toys. In addition to running the school, Jennifer was been a Girl Scout Leader for ten years and mom to four active girls, now all grown up.