The Most Popular Childminder App
Where childhood expertise and bespoke care meet
As a childminder, every day you bring your individual blend of expert education and care to each child’s development, providing exceptional learning experiences.
Tapestry is the intuitive childminder app with the tools you need to simplify your workload and provide your unique professional service to families. No need to invest in expensive technology either! Use your computer, tablet or smartphone with the website version, or apps for Android and iOS – quick and easy access wherever your day and your children take you.
From the day-to-day running of your childminding business, to enabling you to support children to flourish, we have you covered.
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If you are looking for a childminder app that reduces your workload, supports your professional practice, forges strong relationships with families and helps you grow your childminding business, and is easy to set up and use, then Tapestry is for you.
Want to see it for yourself? Get your free, no-obligation two-week trial today!
The home away from home
Promoting continuity in learning and care between home and your setting is key to building strong foundations for children – so they feel seen, heard and loved.
Strengthen your engagement and partnerships with parents to celebrate each child’s development – wherever it happens.
- Get to know your children.
- Encourage parent contributions.
- Enable fun learning at home.
- Keep parents up-to-date with the daily care of their children.
Send and receive direct and secure messages.
- Share important documents securely with families.
- Let parents and carers know about the exciting learning experiences you have planned for their child.
Celebrate childhood with the original online learning journal
Easily capture and weave the magic of children’s learning with the original online learning journal. No more printing out pictures or late-night cutting and sticking into paper journals.
- Upload unlimited photos and videos to document children’s learning and celebrate every milestone – send these directly to parents’ phones!
- Build your understanding of each child’s interests and what they know and can do, to inform the learning experiences you provide.
- Create the first chapters in your children’s learning journals and transfer them to the next setting so they can continue building up from your foundations.
Looking for that special keepsake?
Parents and carers can also have their children’s Tapestry journals professionally printed! We’ve teamed up with publisher Group Hugs to bring Tapestry journals to life as beautiful books, with no extra work from you.
Improve outcomes for children
Keep everything you need to inform your practice and support your children in one place.
- Regularly reflect on and evaluate your practice and expertise to develop your provision.
- Demonstrate learning and outcomes, and monitor progress easily and make plans for further learning opportunities.
- Build a unique curriculum and upload your own bespoke framework to support your provision and expertise.
- Easily summarise and review each child’s development to share with parents, carers and other settings.
- Form effective partnerships with parents and the other settings a child attends, sharing information to offer a consistent approach to their learning and development.
Be in control of your finances and grow your childminder business
Simplify everyday management tasks, so you and your families can have more time for what matters.
Invoices for childminders
Clear and transparent invoicing to make sure you are paid on time, and families know exactly what they are paying for.
Smart occupancy planning and space forecasting
Maximise your revenue by identifying gaps in your occupancy and accommodating new children accordingly.
Registers on the go
Easy in-app registers to keep an eye on who is in, and who is not.
Why Pay More for Childminding Software?
Starting at £5.50/month, every Tapestry subscription comes with all features included.
Designed by our expert Education Team in collaboration with our in-house developers, Tapestry is the childminder app to take care of you and your families.
Birth to 5 Matters
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Discover how our award-winning Childhood Education Platform can revolutionise your childminding business.
