These tools can help you arrange and rearrange your environment—all without breaking a sweat! Take a moment to review the resources below and revisit as needed to ensure you are creating a safe, comfortable, and stimulating space for the infants and toddlers in your care.

• Classroom Architect:

  http://classroom.4teachers.org/

  This website provides a blank floor plan and furniture templates you can use to outline your space online. You decide what furniture to put in the room and where it goes. The furniture tools are simple geometric shapes, but they provide an easy-to-use glimpse of how your space could be laid out. You can use this site to design and redesign your space before you move any real furniture.

• Community Playthings Sample Classrooms:

  https://www.communityplaythings.com/Inspiration/sample-classrooms

  This website provides a view of sample classrooms. The designs are based on materials sold by this company, but their sample classrooms can provide you with good ideas about how to organize your space with traditional furniture.

• Lakeshore Learning Classroom Designer:

  http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/classroom_designer/cd_launch.jsp

  This website lets you design your environment from scratch. It can help you decide where furniture and materials will fit in your space. You can choose to view existing features or items available from this company.

• Kaplan Early Learning Company Classroom Floor Planner:

  http://www.kaplanco.com/resources/floorPlannerIndex.asp

  This interactive tool lets you build your room design from a blank template or begin with an example. You can customize the floor plan and dimensions to match your learning environment.