Creche Visit

We were invited to a creche also known as a daycare by a mother of a child who comes to Sunday School at Faith Baptist in Snake Park. In South Africa, the children have to be 6 1/2 in order to go to primary school which starts with Grade 1. The school year starts late January and goes until early December. They have a few breaks during the year that are a couple weeks long. 

The creche is the tin izozo or shack to the right of the playground. Many times people will run a creche out of their home.

This is the owner of the creche. She was very sweet and appreciative that we came to play with the children. She asked us as we were leaving when we could come back.

They provided us with chairs to sit on while the children sang for us, said their abc's (in English!) and danced. We taught them a few of our favorite songs - Jesus loves me remix and My God is so Big.

Some of the children were a little nervous around us as we were the first abamlungu (white people) they have seen. But as you can see they opened up to us when we sat on the floor and played with them. They enjoyed playing with our hair.

The kids were looking at my Gospel bead bracelet that we make at Girls Club. They all took turns trying to guess the color of the beads. Too cute!