The De Soto High Shool Human Growth and Development classes held a ‘Toddler Day’ on Dec. 10.

“In Human Growth and Development, we’ve been learning about toddler-aged children and I thought it would be fun to do a hands-on activity to help us learn,” said Human Growth and Development teacher Caroline Friday.

Students worked together to create their own statiions for the kids to visit. They created a breakfast station, scavenger hunt, and crafts stations.

According to sophomore Autumn King, it was “basically like a mini-daycare.”

King was in charge of the breakfast station.

“At my station we made pancakes for everyone. We measured out the ingredients and then let the little kids pour it and mix it,” King said. “They were so small that they obviously couldn’t actually cook them themselves, but I think they liked making the pancake mix.”

According to Friday, this is the first year that the Human Growth and Development classes have done this activity.

“We haven’t done anything like this in the past, but I really would like to continue it in the future because it went really well,” Friday said. “I think that it’d be great to get more kids to come in the future.”

Friday originally had the idea to just bring her three year old daughter Harper, but thought students would learn better with more children.

King’s favorite part was seeing the different children having fun and “quickly finding the stations that they individually prefered.”

Friday and King agree that having more toddler-aged children enhanced the learning aspect of the event.

“They learned that taking care of toddler-aged children, especially multiple ones, is very hard and a lot of work. They also learned that they can wear you out and that their moods change very fast,” Friday said.

Friday’s favorite part of the event was seeing her students interacting with the children.

“Seeing the older kids having fun and interacting with the younger kids was super fun,” Friday said. “Some of the students may not necessarily do well in their other classes, but they had really good children skills and that was cool to see.”