The Playgroup Handbook - The complete, practical guide to organizing a home playgroup, by Laura Peabody Broad and Nancy Towner Butterworth.

This book doesn’t give you the step by step idiot proof instructions on how to set up your own playgroup like The Stay-At-Home-Mom Complete Guide to Playgroup does. It focuses on issues like organisation, size, facilities, material and activities.

The book provides tonnes of interesting and detailed structured activities that parents could carry out during playgroup session. The activities are planned through the year, categorised by 12 months, including art, cooking, games, music, exercise, science, trips, woodworking, storytelling, etc. The many useful activities definitely make this book worth buying, especially for parents who are running out of ideas what to do with the kids. It also list down all the materials needed for art, cooking, craft sessions as well as songs lyrics, which saves the parents a lot of work!

Unlike the other book mentioned earlier, this book focused on setting up playgroup that tends to be more formal and structured, more like a babysitting facility, rather then the informal home gathering type where kids and moms mingle in a relax atmosphere. The activities in the book are meant for children 2yrs old and above, so wouldn’t be too useful yet for me until sometime later.