I would want my facility to first be one that appears to be child friendly. The appearance of any childcare facility is important. I would want accent walls of green (spring-time green), yellow, red, and orange. Children are attracted to color, and I would allow these accent walls to be the place of where we would display pictures of each family. I did like how Adriana displayed items to represent each child. In my current class, we have family photos, and we displayed family trees for the first 8 weeks of school. Also, having posters around the room that the children can relate to that don't show stereotypes. For example, a girl playing basketball, and a boy pretending to bake cookies.
I would also want a variety of toys that represent several different cultures. Not only those that are present in the classroom, but from all different cultures. This will teach children to learn that there are many different people who may not look like them, but you can still play with them. Also, having a variety of books. Books about culture differences, different families, different community helpers, etc.
Having a variety of toys such as Legos, dolls, block, sand/water table, art easel, math manipulatives, science/exploratory materials, book making materials, puppets, all of these items will help create an anti-bias classroom by allowing each child to explore all of these toys. Encouraging boys to play in home-living and girls and block center would help children break the bias of girl vs. boy toys.
I would also make some of the items that would be in my classroom such as puzzles. I would take pictures of the students playing (girls playing with the tools set) and create a puzzle with it. I would also have skin tone crayons and construction paper for the students to explore with.
I believe this will help create my anit-bias home facility.
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