Description: CRADLE TO CRAYONS PRESCHOOL LLC is a LICENSED GROUP in Spooner WI, with a maximum capacity of 64 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of 6 wks - 11 yrs 11 mo. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.
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| Violation Date | Rule Number | Rule Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-03 | No Violations found *** | Licensing |
| 2025-09-18 | See Violations below | Licensing |
| 2025-09-18 | The center director self-reported that on 9/10/2025, a 2 year old child was not closely supervised by child care workers who were within sight and sound of the child to guide the child's behavior and activities, prevent harm and assure safety when the child was left behind in the back hallway of the center for approximately 5 minutes. The center director heard the child crying from the hallway, and promptly retrieved and comforted the child. The assigned child care workers were not aware that the child was left behind. | Violation |
| Description: 251.055(1)(a) — Supervision Of Children | ||
| 2025-09-18 | On 9/10/2025, the center director self-reported that the center tracking procedure was not followed when the staff failed to count children when they left the outdoor play area and travelled through the back hallways of the center to return inside, resulting in one child being left behind in a back hallway, unsupervised for approximately 5 minutes. | Violation |
| Description: 251.055(1)(f) — Child Tracking Procedure | ||
| 2025-09-18 | During the course of a complaint investigation, center staff admitted that child care workers are not within sight or sound of each group of sleeping children on occasion when child care workers are supervising two classrooms of children at the same time during rest periods. As children wake, the child care workers will enter into a classroom and leave the children in the other classroom not within sight or sound supervision. | Violation |
| Description: 251.055(2)(g)1. — Naptime - Staff-To-Child Ratio Supervision | ||
| 2025-09-18 | During the course of a complaint investigation it was discovered that staff-to-child ratios are not maintained in the center during naptime when staff leave the premises to take their breaks. | Violation |
| Description: 251.055(2)(g)2. — Naptime - Staff-To-Child Ratio Persons In The Center | ||
| 2025-09-04 | See Violations below | Licensing |
| 2025-09-04 | The licensee did not ensure that all information provided to the Department was current and accurate when the center director/licensee advised center staff not to contact the Department, CPS, or Law Enforcement if they had reasonable cause to report a concern regarding the center or children in care. This potentially discouraged staff from providing current and accurate information to the Department and other state agencies. | Violation |
| Description: 251.04(2)(c) — Current, Accurate Information | ||
| 2025-09-04 | The licensee failed to report multiple prohibited actions by an employee to children in care within 24 hours of the occurrence. | Violation |
| Description: 251.04(3)(jm) — Report - Prohibited Actions | ||
| 2025-09-04 | The licensee failed to report to the Department of an incident involving law enforcement within 24 hours after the occurrence that involved an employee of the center in an incident that caused, or threatened to cause, physical or serious emotional harm to a child in the care of the center. | Violation |
| Description: 251.04(3)(k)1. — Report - Law Enforcement Contact - Harm | ||
| 2025-09-04 | According to the center director/licensee, the parent of a child who was subject to child guidance that is prohibited under 251.07(2)(e)5. was not notified of the incident nor provided with sufficient detail to reasonably apprise the parent. | Violation |
| Description: 251.04(4)(a)2.e. — Parent Notification - Inappropriate Child Guidance | ||
| 2025-09-04 | The licensee and staff failed to report suspected child abuse or neglect although they had reasonable concerns of a staff person's actions towards children in care of the center. The licensee and staff failed to report suspected child abuse or neglect when an incident occurred on 7/24/2025 involving multiple children, although they had reasonable cause to report. | Violation |
| Description: 251.04(8)(a) — Mandated Reporting - Child Abuse & Neglect | ||
| 2025-09-04 | Staff B was missing documentation of having received training within the past two years on child abuse and neglect laws, identification, and reporting. | Violation |
| Description: 251.05(3)(cm) — Child Abuse & Neglect - Biennial Training | ||
| 2025-09-04 | Contrary to rule, center staff self-reported that they have used time-out periods on several occasions where children were removed from the classroom setting. | Violation |
| Description: 251.07(2)(c)5. — Time Out - Not Removed From Classroom | ||
| 2025-09-04 | According to a report received by the Department on 7/31/2025, and through admittance by the center director/licensee, the center director/licensee was observed using actions that may be emotional or physically painful, discomforting, dangerous, or potentially injurious, when a child was removed from the lunch table when eating their meal and made to sit by the wall, then made to eat their meal from the floor. | Violation |
| Description: 251.07(2)(e) — Child Guidance - Prohibited Actions | ||
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