Tiny Hands Enrichment Center

Tiny Hands Enrichment Center is a play-based childcare center in Dorchester that aims to give children the love and individual care of a home daycare along with an educational component. It also teaches Christian values. Its open, brightly colored space encourages interaction and activity, and programs emphasize health, fitness and musical creativity. Teachers recognize that children learn in different ways and at different paces, and play is part of learning every day.

The center began as Tiny Hands Family Daycare, an in-home program founded in March 2006. After 13 years it changed its name and opened its doors as Tiny Hands Enrichment Center on November 19, 2018. The center rejects a one-size-fits-all model of rigid classroom routines, and its teachers are encouraged to go beyond the traditional curriculum with creative, active lessons suited to each child’s learning style.

What to Know

• Staff work with families so learning carries over between the classroom and home.
• The center aims to be a natural extension of each child’s family.
• Play-based activities are designed to build the skills children need to succeed in school.
• It is listed by Upham’s Corner Main Street.