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
3 Earth Day Activities
Earth Day is a wonderful opportunity to teach children about the importance of caring for our planet. By incorporating hands-on activities, kids can explore ways [...]
2 Active Recycling Activities
The weather is slowly turning, and it is getting warmer outside. It is the perfect time of year to remind you kids about Earth Day [...]
4 Scavenger Hunts
As a child, I vividly remember my mom giving us a list and asking us to find everything on it. Sometimes the items were in [...]
5 DIY Learning Tools
Many kids are lucky when they go to school because they have all these tools at their fingertips for learning, but what about at home? [...]
Continuing Learning at Home
All parents want their children to excel at school! Your child can also excel even more at home. It’s as simple as helping instill in [...]
6 Household Item Activities
With young students staying home from school, it can be difficult to keep them entertained within your home. While parents and guardians attempt to keep [...]
Time to Play – Why Play Is Important!
As adults, most of us remember a certain, somewhat idyllic, kind of childhood play where we spent most of our time outside. We had little [...]
Collaborative Art: Social-Emotional Lessons
When people do art, they have their own ideas and ambitions as to what they are going to create. I may use a special vacation [...]
SPARK Free At-Home Resources
Along with our resources and activities, our friends over at SPARK are showing their support for teachers and students by putting together FREE resources, including [...]
