Welcome to the Play with a Purpose Blog!
We are thrilled to introduce the Play with a Purpose blog to the early childhood education community. As leaders in providing physical activity products for young children, we are now dedicated to offering valuable resources to teachers and childcare professionals. Authored by educators, our blogs provide field-tested ideas to enhance your work, drawing from our team’s expertise in early education and a passion for active play.
Recent Blogs
Encourage Movement with Walking and Balancing
Movement for children is so important to a child’s lifelong development, and what better way to challenge children’s movement then by using the WePlay Plan [...]
5 Educational Apps for Preschoolers
We live in a digital age, and there is no competing against a screen when a child finally realizes the world it holds. Here are [...]
Planting a Garden with Kids
Warmer weather is quickly approaching everywhere around the country. That means it is the perfect time to start reseeding the yard, planting a vegetable garden, [...]
Let’s Go Camping (From Home!)
Do you remember as a kid when you used to build a blanket fort in the living room, move the chairs around, and pull the [...]
Surf’s Up on The Whally Board
Looking for a fun product that will not only help get the wiggles out, but also work on balance or give your children a fun [...]
Get Moving While Balancing With Ripple Walk!
It seems like children are always on the move, and just like the energizer bunny, they keep going. But what can you do with your [...]
3 Ways to Learn with the JUMBO Circus Set
Teaching children at home can be a challenge, especially when you have multiple kids at all varying age levels, and you want to make sure [...]
Using Play to Build a Mental Map of the Body for Classroom Success
Proprioception comes from the Latin word proprius which means individual and caprio which means to take or to grasp. The proprioceptive system, housed deep in [...]