BrightPath Niagara Falls Boulevard Child Care Center

BrightPath Niagara Falls Boulevard Child Care Center

BrightPath Niagara Falls Boulevard location in Amherst, NY features a warm and loving staff dedicated to ensuring that your child is carefully attended to and receives the most enriching learning and play experiences. This prestigious NAEYC Accredited center provides a bevy of opportunities for your child to imagine and explore their surrounding environments, including our custom, “green” outdoor play space and state-of-the-art equipment.

 

Center Programs

Our age-specific programs provide enriching experiences tailored to each stage of early development. Click on the program below to learn more information.

Infant

Infant (6 Weeks - 18 Months)

Our infant program provides a warm, nurturing environment where caregivers form close bonds with babies, ensuring a secure and trusting relationship. Each infant follows their own schedule, with individualized care routines for feeding, sleeping, and play. Our educators support early development through sensory exploration, attachment-based play, and language-rich interactions, including the introduction of basic American Sign Language (ASL).

Key Focus Areas:

  • Building secure attachments with primary caregivers
  • Encouraging free exploration and movement
  • Facilitating play that supports sensory and cognitive development
  • Respecting each infant’s natural rhythms and routines

Toddler

Toddler (18 Months - 3 years)

Toddlers are naturally curious, energetic, and eager to explore. Our toddler program fosters independence while encouraging language development and social-emotional growth. Through hands-on activities, play-based learning, and structured routines, toddlers gain foundational skills for future learning.

Key Focus Areas:

  • Supporting independence (self-feeding, dressing, potty training)
  • Expanding language and communication through ASL and verbal expression
  • Encouraging social-emotional growth through cooperative play
  • Sensory experiences, music, and movement to enhance cognitive development
Pre-Schooler

Preschool (3-4 years)

Preschoolers are eager learners, exploring their world with curiosity and excitement. Our preschool program builds upon their natural interests, incorporating early literacy, math, science, and creative expression into their daily routines. Play-based learning helps children develop problem-solving skills, creativity, and social connections.

Key Focus Areas:

  • Developing early literacy and numeracy skills
  • Encouraging creative expression through art, music, and dramatic play
  • Building independence and confidence in learning
  • Enhancing social and problem-solving skills through group activities
Pre-K

Pre-K (4-5 years)

The pre-K program prepares children for kindergarten through hands-on, inquiry-based learning experiences. Children develop literacy and math skills, engage in STEM activities, and practice self-regulation and collaboration. Our play-based approach ensures learning remains joyful and meaningful.

Key Focus Areas:

  • Strengthening pre-reading, writing, and numeracy skills
  • Hands-on STEM exploration (science, technology, engineering, and math)
  • Fostering independence, confidence, and self-regulation
  • Encouraging social responsibility and problem-solving skills
Kindergarten

Kindergarten

Our program focuses on play-based learning, literacy enhancement, and our adaptive curriculum promotes independence and academic readiness.

From Our Families

Our families know us best. See directly from them about what makes our center a place where their children thrive.

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Center Director

Cindy has worked for BrightPath, formerly known as EduKids, since 2015. At the Hertel location, she taught Universal Pre-Kindergarten and was an assistant director and the center director before transferring to the Niagara Falls Boulevard location in 2021. She holds a B.S. in Elementary Education from Buffalo State College and has completed graduate coursework in reading education. She is also very proud to say that her two boys attended BrightPath for their early childhood education!
Portrait of the BrightPath Niagara Falls Boulevard  Director

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Virtual Tours:

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Award-Winning Culture

We’re proud to be recognized as a winner of the 2025 Culture at Work Award , a 2025 Silver Stevie® Award in Consumer Services recipient, and the winner of the 2024 Kudos Culture Leader Award . We strive every day to provide top-level support to our staff at over 250 daycare locations throughout the United States and Canada.

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