Venus' Little Stars

Venus' Little Stars is a daycare in Palo Alto, CA. The home-based program has been supporting families since 2001, offering full-day care for young children in a small-group setting. The program centers on individualized care, outdoor creative play, structured learning, and weekly enrichment classes, with hands-on activities including art classes every other week, storytelling, music, imaginative play, and bilingual storytelling sessions. It serves families looking for nurturing early childhood education in a residential daycare environment, and it holds a rating of 5.00 from the customers who have reviewed it.

The daycare is led by Venus, who was raised in a family of educators and has worked with children since 1993. She earned her degree in Early Childhood Education in 2000 and went on to study at Stanford University, continuing her professional development through NAEYC resources and seminars at Stanford's Bing Nursery School, a research and teaching lab for early childhood education. The program draws inspiration from the Reggio Emilia Philosophy and early childhood educator Bev Bos, and is organized around respectful relationships with families, a clean and secure home environment, and a multicultural, bilingual approach to early learning. Daily routines blend independent learning with group activities such as story time, music, and hands-on projects, fostering social skills, problem-solving, and self-expression. Families interested in the program can arrange a tour to explore the classrooms, meet the educators, and observe the daily activities.

Venus' Little Stars is located on Oregon Avenue, just off Oregon Expressway and about 0.2 miles from Embarcadero Road. Ohlone Elementary School is roughly 0.4 miles away, and the Bayshore Freeway is about 0.4 miles from the daycare.

Venus' Little Stars has served Palo Alto families for over two decades, combining a degree in Early Childhood Education, continued study at Stanford, and a home-based small-group approach shaped by the Reggio Emilia philosophy to provide individualized care for young children in the city.