Resource
Vacation Care Passport
Help children notice and choose across a vacation-care day without requiring every station. Includes a two-page A4 printable, specific educator guidance, adaptations and a cut-off quick-reference card.
Ready for a real OSHC session
Preview both printable pages
Download 2-page practical printableCheck the preview, printing notes and licence before use.
When this resource is useful
A passport can make a varied day visible while avoiding compulsory rotations or completion rewards.
What children do
Add a mark, drawing or short note after any experience. Blank spaces are acceptable.
Materials and preparation
Materials: Printed guide, pencils, selected station materials and current service planning information.
Allow about 10 minutes to print and place the resource. The activity itself usually takes 120 minutes and can pause when the group needs to transition.
Run the activity
Introduce it as an optional record. Stamp, draw or write only after genuine participation; no minimum number is required.
The child-facing prompts are:
- TRY: a creative choice
- TRY: movement or outdoor play
- TRY: a puzzle or strategy choice
- TRY: making or construction
- NOTICE: something in the environment
- CONNECT: join, help or talk if wanted
- CONTINUE: an idea for another day
- CHOOSE: something not listed
Adapt participation
Simpler way to join: Use four large picture spaces.
More challenge: Add evidence, questions or follow-up plans instead of simple stamps.
Children may draw, dictate, point, work beside a peer, observe or join later. Start, Explore and Extend labels describe task routes, not children.
Extend the idea
- Turn one entry into tomorrow’s project.
- Create a group map of popular areas without names.
Safety and privacy
Do not use completion to restrict food, rest, collection or access to preferred activities.
Learning opportunities
Look for program participation, planning, collaboration and reflection. Record what children choose, explain, test or revise rather than treating completion as proof of learning.
Checking an open-ended response
There is no single required answer. A useful response follows the printed condition and can be explained, demonstrated or revised by the child.
Printing notes
Print at actual size on A4 paper. Page one is child-facing. Page two contains educator guidance and a dashed cut-off reference card that can be kept with the activity or laminated.
