Candyland is an amazing child care center! The owners are so caring and they take time to hear out your requests, needs, etc. The staff is wonderful! Definitely recommend.
The leadership at Candyland Child Development Center has more than 14 years of experience in childcare, creating age-appropriate curriculum, and providing staff training/development.
Contact usMy name is Sandy Christman, and I have an Associates in Disability Services. I worked in daycare centers for 5 years before I opened my own home childcare center, 14 years ago.
Schedule a TourOur Box Elder daycare center is licensed for 140 children, ages 4 weeks to 14 years old. We are located very close to Ellsworth Air Force Base, just off Liberty Boulevard.
Our ServicesMy home center provided me the opportunity to stay home with my own two children. I'm currently getting my CDA and have been CPR/First Aid Certified for over 20 years.
Schedule a TourEach of our childcare classrooms are equipped with live streaming cameras and our doors have a key code access control system; safety is a top priority in our Box Elder Daycare Center!
Our TeamCandyland Child Care Center is a state of the art child care facility with high definition streaming cameras that parents can watch live in every classroom.
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My name is Sandy Christman, and I have an Associates in Disability Services. I worked in daycare centers for 5 years before I opened my own home childcare center, 14 years ago.
My home child care center provided me the opportunity to stay home with my own two children. I'm currently getting my CDA and have been CPR/First Aid Certified for over 20 years.
My husband, Levi, and I decided to open Candyland Child Development Center as we saw the need in our community for quality childcare services. I generally care about children and each child's individual developmental needs.
Our state of the art building is approximately 8200 sq. feet. We have high definition streaming cameras in every classroom. Our child care facility is close to Ellsworth Air Force Base, just off Liberty Boulevard in Box Elder, South Dakota. Candyland is licensed to care for up to 140 children. We are open Monday-Friday 6 a.m-6 p.m. with the possibility of being open for extended hours during drill exercises. We provide child care for children from 4 weeks to 14 years old. Our facility includes:
Candyland is an amazing child care center! The owners are so caring and they take time to hear out your requests, needs, etc. The staff is wonderful! Definitely recommend.
We love Candyland CDC. The entire staff is wonderful and caring. They communicate well to let us know how each day is going and their new facility is fantastic!
My son goes here for before and after school care. He absolutely loves it here. Sandy the director is prompted to answer emails and takes time to answer any questions you may have. Everyone at this daycare is very welcoming and great at communicating with parents. It’s nice to know my child is well taken care of.
Sandy and her team are amazing! All of them are extremely friendly and make my kids feel welcome and part of the family!
Sandy is the best! I can’t recommend her enough. She took care of my newborn and 2 year old until they were 2 and 5. My girls went to her when she was an in home daycare. Sandy is so kind and loving, my girls absolutely LOVED her.
When my maternity leave ended and it was time for my 3 month old to start daycare (and she had colic and was quite fussy at times) Sandy was wonderful with my baby girl. Because Sandy was so loving, patient, and attentive, it helped ease that worry and heartache of going back to work. My daughters would run to her whenever they were dropped off in the morning and would talk non-stop about all the fun things they did during the day when I picked them up. Sandy taught my 3 year old (at the time) to write her name and to color in the lines. It was like sending my 3 yr old to a preschool, she really worked on their learning and education!
I trust Sandy completely, she always kept me informed and communication was a high priority for her. She would talk to me about my girls’ day and would know things that only someone who really paid attention to them would know. Things like which foods my girls liked, or how they danced to music, or little ways they would mispronounced things like kiddos do.
Sandy always kept her home very clean and would regularly clean the toys. When the inevitable runny noses and coughs happened, Sandy would always take extra care to clean everything top to bottom.
I count my blessings that my girls went to Sandy’s daycare. She is clearly experienced and confident with childcare and it showed with the love and care she gave my girls. Opening up her daycare to a facility to serve more kiddos is a blessing to this area!
I couldn't ask for a more understanding childcare center. My work hours are crazy making it so that I have drop off my kids at a different time nearly every day making it difficult for them to schedule ratios but they've never once complained about it. Sandy and her husband work tirelessly to make sure our kids are taken care of. Miss Carol-Anne does awesome with my son's anxiety. Also has been a great environment for my daughter's first daycare. Thank you all for all that you do.
Absolutely love candyland! I recommend them any time I see someone looking for childcare suggestions. I have 5 kids that go here between the ages of 10 and 1. My 5 year old is autistic and they have been nothing but amazing with him. They communicate with me when it comes to his personal struggles and and we come up with plans for different things for him. ALL of my kids love their classroom teachers! I had been a stay at home mom for 10 years so sending my kids somewhere to have someone watch them was a bit hard for me. But talking with them at the walk through really eased my mind. Thanks for being awesome yall)
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