Staying connected as a family during the holidays can be tough, even when it feels like everything we are doing is to create happy holidays for our family! Try these simple...
Supporting Risky Play
Risky play is an important part of growth and development, and instrumental in lifelong learning.You can download this resource HERE.When kids engage in risky play, they...
Play Builds Confidence
When kids play, they use their bodies, brains, and emotions. Because play is joyful, it positively affects kids’ physical and mental health, which in turn helps build their...
Free Play is Playful Learning
When kids are allowed to play in whatever way they want - when they can choose the materials and the actions and activities - they are free to express themselves in the way...
Learning Through Guided Play
Guided play combines play that is kid-led with gentle instruction or suggestions from adults. It allows kids to be in control of the way they are playing, while adults help...
I is For Independent Play
There are big benefits to independent play, which exercises imagination, creativity, persistence, patience, problem-solving skills, and much more. Here’s how to get started...
The Importance of Independent Play
Sometimes, kids can’t answer right away when we ask, “What are you doing?” Because sometimes, they don’t know yet! Sometimes, they’re just busy doing.
4 First Steps to Becoming an Active Family
Though it can be difficult to squeeze an extra activity into an already busy schedule, making time to move together is important because active parents raise active kids....
5 Essentials to Meaningful Play
Memories of joyful and meaningful play experiences can bind families together emotionally, even long after the kids have grown up. These five essential elements of play...
Emotional Expression Through Music
One of the many, many benefits of music is that it offers a safe and dependable place to feel our feelings. When we are afraid, sad, or really happy, we can invite music in...
Making Connections: Physical Activity & Mental Health
Child development takes place simultaneously across every domain; the domains all support one another. That means all the elements of your kids’ health are connected – their...
5 Ways to Get Kids Outside
Kids really do grow better outside. Here are five easy ways to add outside play to your family’s everyday activities! 1. Relocate a favorite indoor activity outside,...
Tips For Helping Kids Build Relationships
You can download this infographic HERE.Relationship-building is the process of establishing emotional connections with others that are based on trust and intimacy. Through...
Cold Weather Safety
You can download this infographic HERE.It might be cold, but that doesn’t mean you can’t play outside. There’s fun to be had and exploring to do – just bundle up!
10 Things Kids Learn Playing With Blocks
You can download this infographic HERE.Blocks are both a great learning tool and toy for kiddos!
5 Ways to Play in the Mud
Help your kids connect to their world – by playing in the mud! Mud may be messy, but it's also a raw, everyday material that offers unique, hands-on sensory experiences and...
Benefits Of Water Play
You can download this infographic HERE.There are so many benefits to playing in water for kids!
5 Ways to Engage in Your Child’s Development
5 Ways to Engage in Your Child’s Development Your kids are growing and learning all day, every day. You can make a positive impact on their development by getting involved...
Cultivating Creative Expression
By incorporating a variety of materials that foster creativity into the spaces where your kids spend their time, you’ll enable your kids to express themselves, deepen their...
6 Ways to Play – With Sheets!
Play, learn, imagine, and grow with your kids using a single sheet and things you already have around the house.
8 Things All Parents Should Know About Play
8 Things All Parents Should Know About Play Give your children time for play and you will see all they are capable of doing when given the opportunity. Children learn...
The Six Cs of Playtime
The Six Cs of Playtime It’s never “just play,” it’s learning. Learning that emerges through play is deep and meaningful to children because they have shaped it themselves....
Outdoor Play and the Domains of Development
The American Academy of Pediatrics says lots of unstructured outdoor play is critical to the health of children. That’s because outdoor play benefits children in every...
5 Benefits of Playing Outside
Kids should play outside! Here are 5 reasons why. When kids are given unstructured time to play alone or with other children, especially outdoors, they make up their own...