Exclusively for Providers

The Early Childhood Alliance Lending Library is pleased to offer enhanced services for providers participating with the Paths to Quality Program. If you are not familiar with the Paths to Quality Program, please click the link above to learn more.

Enhanced services available:

• Free Lending Library (with an application on file) - The annual Lending Library fee is $5.00 for individuals and $10.00 for centers/ministries, but this fee has been waived for PTQ providers. Through the Lending Library providers have access to prop boxes, books, videos, and magazines to assist child care settings deliver quality services to families and children.
• Free delivery of prop boxes - The number of deliveries depends on the provider's PTQ Level.

Lending Library Applications

• On-line Application Form

• Active Play
• Around the Neighborhood
• Astronauts and Space
• Baby Care Kit
• Bakery/Panaderia
• Birthday Celebrations
• Build it with Lincoln Logs
• By the Seashore
• Camping
• Castle Marbleworks
• Coaster Ball
• Community Helpers
• Construction Workers
• Creating with Blocks and Animals
• Creating with Dinosaurs and Blocks
• Dinosaurs
• Down on the Farm
• Duplo World
• Emergency Helpers
• Emotions
• Families 1 & 2
• Fine Motor Sensory Activities
• Fire Fighter
• Flower Shop 
• Gardening
• Gears and Gizmos
• Grocery Store/Nutrition
• Housekeeping
• Inclusion Awareness 1 & 2
• Indoor/Outdoor Science - School Age
• Infant and Toddler Early Literacy
• Infant Fine Motor Skills
• Infant and Toddler Music
• Infant and Toddler Outdoor Experiences
• Italian Restaurant
• Kitchen Essentials
• Latino/Hispanic Awareness
• Learning Shapes
• Literacy (alphabet)
• Magnets
• Manipulatives (puzzles, pegboards, etc.)
• Manipulatives #2
• Math Concepts
• Music and Movement
• Nutrition
• Objects and Shapes Set
• Parachute Play
• Peaceable Indoor Play
• Peaceable Library
• Preschool Diversity
• Preschool Trasportation & Construction
• Pretend Play 1 Peaceable Classroom
• Puppets - Old MacDonald Had a Farm
• Rain Forest
• Read and Play with Farm Animals
• Story Telling & Blocks
• Toddler Fine Motor
• Toddler Large Motor
• Too Cool for School 1 & 2
• Transportation
• Travel
• Tummy Time 1 & 2
• Veterinary Kit
• Weather and Seasons
• Weights & Measures
• What Do Yo Want to Be?
• What's the Shape? Infant and Toddler

Book & Video/DVD Categories:

• Business Practices
• Classroom Management/Discipline
• Creative Expression - Art, Music, Movement
• Curriculum - Observation Assessment and Development
• Environment - Set Up, Maintaining
• Family Partnerships
• Health, Safety, Nutrition, Abuse & Neglect
• Inclusion/Diversity
• Infant/Toddler
• Literacy
• Math
• Preschool
• Science
• School Age

Magazines