Make children’s participation visible within your service’s Quality Improvement Plan.
This complete resource folder helps educators gather meaningful feedback from all children—not only children who can confidently answer questions. It includes practical tools for recognising children’s voices through words, gestures, facial expressions, movements, photographs, artwork, play patterns, repeated choices and everyday interactions.
 
Designed around the seven NQS Quality Areas, this pack supports educators to listen, observe, document, respond and show how children’s ideas can lead to genuine service improvement.
 
✨ What Is Included?
Our Children’s QIP Binder 
Create an organised folder for storing completed feedback, observations, photographs, children’s artwork, action records and evidence connected to your service QIP.
 
NQS for Children Posters
Child-friendly posters introduce each of the seven Quality Areas in language children can understand and relate to their everyday experiences.
 
Child Voice Quality Area Questions
Each Quality Area includes child-friendly questions that can be used during play, small-group discussions, environment walks or at the Mini QIP Feedback Station.
 
Child Voice Observation Guidance
Supports educators to recognise that child voice is more than spoken words. Observe gestures, body language, repeated choices, preferred areas, avoided spaces, interactions and patterns within play.
 
Child Voice Speech Bubbles and Questions Set
Record children’s exact words, actions or nonverbal responses. Add them to displays, photographs, artwork or your QIP evidence folder.
 
Mini QIP Feedback Station
Create an accessible space where children can contribute ideas, drawings, photographs and responses connected to one Quality Area at a time.
 
Drawing and Painting Prompts
Invite children to draw, paint or represent their ideas. Educators can record what each child says or communicates about their artwork.
 
Photo Prompt and Photo Walk Cards
Encourage children to show, point to or photograph spaces and resources they enjoy, avoid, would like changed or believe could be improved.
 
Show Me Cards
A practical way to include children who communicate through movement, pointing, gesture or demonstration. Walk with the child and record what they choose to show you.
 
Indoor and Outdoor Play Mapping Tools
Record where children choose to play, areas they avoid, busy or conflict-prone spaces, movement patterns, unused areas and suggested environmental changes.
 
Play Pattern Observation Tool
Observe repeated choices, social groupings, preferred resources, nonverbal communication and areas children return to during everyday play.
 
What We Heard From Children Display
Make children’s participation visible by displaying their words, photographs, artwork, suggestions and the actions educators are considering or implementing.
 
Child Voice Quick Capture Slips
Use the tear-off slips to quickly record significant comments, gestures, choices or actions as they naturally occur throughout the day.
 
Children’s Voice to Action Record
Turn feedback into documented action. Record what children communicated, the evidence collected, the proposed improvement, who is responsible and how the outcome will be reviewed with children.
 
💬 Include Every Child’s Voice
This pack provides multiple ways for babies, toddlers, preschool-aged children and children with diverse communication styles and abilities to participate.
 
Educators can gather feedback through:
conversations and child-friendly questions
gestures, facial expressions and body language
drawings, paintings and mark-making
photographs and environment walks
repeated choices and play patterns
pointing, showing and demonstrating
everyday observations and interactions
 
🌱 From Children’s Voices to Meaningful Action
Use the resources to:
involve children in decisions that affect them
gather feedback across all seven NQS Quality Areas
document verbal and nonverbal communication
identify repeated ideas, concerns and interests
support reflective discussions with educators and leadership
provide meaningful evidence for self-assessment and QIP planning
show children what changed because educators listened
 
Our Children’s QIP: Voices to Action Folder helps services move beyond simply asking children questions. It provides practical ways to listen, observe, document and act—ensuring every child has an opportunity to influence their learning environment and service community.