Children and Family

Safety procedures & Inclement Weather Policy

• Registration is limited to provide for social distancing.  
• Using a digital thermometer, each participant’s temperature will be taken upon arrival.
• All children and volunteers must wear a mask at all times, indoors and outdoors, except while seated during snack time.  
• The toddler childcare VBS program follows regulations set forth by the licensing body of the State of Michigan for childcare. It is staffed by paid employees. Toddlers are not required to wear a mask.  
• Preschool VBS will be hosted indoors, within the First Kid’s preschool classrooms, following state licensing regulations.  Three-year-olds are not required to wear masks indoors.  Four & five-year-olds are required to masks indoors.  These children do not have to wear masks outdoors on the playground. 
• Elementary VBS will be hosted outdoors unless there is inclement weather. Indoor programming will be held in designated spaces with appropriate HVAC systems, one-way travel through church buildings, and time for air droplet saturation levels to rest between rotating groups.  Children in kindergarten through 5th grade must wear a mask at all times indoors and outdoors.