The only thing I do in the evenings weekends is cooking meals (but I cook the meals for my family and the leftovers are for daycare) and cleaning my house on the weekends including vaccuuming and mopping the daycare area and cleaning bathrooms etc. I prep snacks during daycare hours...actually I just cut up fruit while kids sit and munch...that way I can cut up more if they want more and less if it is not a hit and I don't waste like I would if I had cut up an enormous pile of fruit and they only eat a tiny bit etc. I don't normaly prep crafts or that kind of thing outside of daycare hours. Most things I do while the kids freeplay or sometimes at naptime if necessary. The day is long enough without spending all my freetime/family time working on stuff for the daycare.