I have had my day home open since July 2011, previously I worked in a daycare, so I am finding the transition of working with strictly one age group, to a mixed age group pretty tough. Can anyone offer ideas for working with the mixed ages. I currently have 4 full time children between 19 m (mine) 19m, 3y, and 4 y, plus my 6 y/o daughter who is here after school. The older children will try to do a craft, or a puzzle, and the younger toddlers will just grab the crayons/marker/paints and throw them on the ground, or walk all over the puzzle the kids are trying to do, or knock down a tower the older kids are working so hard at building tall. I'm not sure what to do. I don't really have space to make seperate play areas (besides, supervision would be tricky if I did that) and the 3 and 4y/o aren't quite big enough to sit comfortably at the full size table, which the younger toddlers can still reach anyway. Any help with figuring out a solution for this would be greatly appreciated.