Daycare enrollment checklist
Licensed daycares and preschools ask for a consistent set of paperwork before a child can start. Here's the full list, so you can gather it in one pass instead of chasing one missing form at a time.
The core forms almost every daycare requires
- Enrollment / registration form — child and parent details, schedule, and program.
- Immunization record — up-to-date vaccine dates, or an exemption where allowed.
- Physician's health assessment — a recent physical signed by your child's doctor.
- Emergency contacts & authorized pickup — who may collect your child.
- Allergy & medication authorization — what your child needs and who may give it.
- Photo & media consent — permission to use your child's image.
Forms some daycares add
- Insurance and physician contact information.
- Feeding, nap, or infant-care plans.
- Field-trip and sunscreen/diapering permissions.
- Tuition agreement and handbook acknowledgment.
Schedule the physical first
The physician's health assessment is the single most common reason enrollment stalls — it needs a doctor's appointment, and those book out. Get it on the calendar as soon as you know your start date; everything else on this list you can complete at home in an evening.
Fill the whole packet in one sitting
Nearly every form here asks for the same facts — birthdate, immunization dates, allergies, physician, insurance, emergency contacts. Save them once in Cubby and it fills each daycare's forms automatically; you review and sign. Your child's information stays encrypted on your own device and is only sent when you approve it.