Ben Brown

Block Play is one of the most powerful and enduring forms of constructive play in early childhood. For infants, the use of developmentally appropriate soft blocks (like Bright Day’s polyethylene EVA foam blocks) is an unparalleled play activity tool. While the iconic unit block is for older children, the soft, large foam blocks are fundamental stepping stones to a lifetime of learning.

The Quick Developmental Boost for Your Infant

Engaging with soft blocks provides immediate and profound benefits for child development. Research shows that this kind of playful learning promotes development across several crucial domains: social, emotional, language, motor, and cognitive skills (Yelland, 2011)¹.

This is what block play achieves:

• Motor Skills: It’s a workout for both gross and fine motor skills. Infants hone their hand-eye coordination and develop muscle control, beginning their gross-motor skills journey.
• Cognitive Development: Early interactions with blocks introduce foundational concepts of cause and effect. When a stack of foam blocks tumbles, they learn a simple physics lesson. This starts the long journey toward problem solving and the development of cognitive skills and spatial reasoning.
• Language Skills: When parents or teachers narrate the play activities (“Big block on top!”), they are building the infant’s language development and language and literacy foundation. These language skills are strengthened during teacher-child interactions.
• Social-Emotional Skills: Even solo Block Play builds attention span as infants focus on a task, a key element of executive function. This encourages social development and lays the groundwork for complex social-emotional skills.

This early childhood engagement with large, soft construction toys allows for simple, active experimentation, setting the stage for the stages of block play they will encounter later.

New Block Play and Game Ideas for Infants 

When working with infants, their stage of block play is primarily exploratory. They are learning about the properties of objects through actions like touching, transferring, and knocking down. These structured block activities provide an excellent alternative to excessive screen time and digital media.

1. The Container Game (Grasping & Transfer)

This classic activity is essential for developing fine motor skills and object permanence.

• Set up: Use a large, open-top bin. Place a pile of Bright Day’s blocks nearby.
• Activity: Encourage the infant to transfer the blocks into the container and then out again. Line the box with bright construction paper to enhance visual appeal and provide excellent visual perceptual skills practice.
• Development Focus: Excellent practice for the pincer grip and learning about volume, which are precursors to early math concepts. This is a great sensory play experience.

2. The Knock-Down Zone (Cause and Effect)

For an infant who can sit unassisted, the joy of destruction is a powerful learning tool.

Setup: A parent or teacher quickly stacks three to four soft blocks (like the BIG Bright Block Kit). A clear Block Play Area on the Classroom Carpet is ideal.

Activity: Encourage the infant to use their hands or even their whole body (gross and fine motor skills) to knock down the tower. Use an enthusiastic phrase. This solidifies the concept of cause and effect and builds gross-motor skills.

Development Focus: Problem solving and anticipation, which builds attention span.

3. Sensory Sorting Fun (Visual and Tactile)

Blocks of different sizes and geometric shapes are perfect for sensory play.

Setup: Provide a mix of large soft blocks of varying colors and geometric shapes. You can even include textured materials to stack them on.

Activity: Guide the infant’s hand to feel the different surfaces of the foam blocks. You can create a simple ‘sorter’ by pointing to a color-matched area of the Classroom Carpet.

Development Focus: Visual perceptual skills, differentiation of geometric shapes, and early categorization, which are essential early math and science learning skills.

4. The Block Roll (Spatial Awareness)

An introduction to movement, trajectory, and spatial awareness.

• Setup: Clear a path on the floor. Use the larger, lightweight foam blocks as obstacles or tunnels from the ROCK+ROLLER! kit.
• Activity: Gently roll a block or a soft ball toward a low stack of blocks. Encourage the infant to crawl over, around, or even push the block through the ‘tunnel.’ This is a crucial, safe introduction to the construction options available and an engaging form of creative block play.
• Development Focus: Gross-motor skills, understanding basic physics, and developing spacial ability.

5. Picture Book & Block Scenery (Language and Literacy)

Connect the physical toy to the narrative world.

• Setup: Read a picture book featuring animals, houses, or construction workers building a structure. Keep a few animal-shaped foam blocks (like the ones from our Big Block Zoo) nearby.
• Activity: After reading, help the infant recreate a very simple scene. Place two blocks upright. Say, “The Elephant is in the house.” Use this opportunity to boost language development by pointing to the “perpendicular and parallel forms” of the blocks without expecting the infant to repeat the terms. This is a form of early pretend play that integrates language and literacy, ideal for early childhood programs.
• Development Focus: Language development, early literacy, and abstract thought (a block can be a house).

6. Mirror Play (Self-Awareness)

Infants are fascinated by faces, especially their own.

• Set up: Use baby-safe mirrors and a few soft blocks. Place the mirror near the Block Play Area.
• Activity: Have the infant sit next to the mirror while holding a block. Watch as they look at their reflection and their block simultaneously.
• Development Focus: This simple interaction enhances social development and self-awareness.

Future Foundations: Early Science Skills

While these activities seem simple, they are the constructive play foundations for more advanced skills. The act of stacking, balancing, and designing structures with construction toys builds science skills, scientific reasoning skills, and early math concepts well before a child ever needs a tape measure or encounters interlocking blocks. This creative block play supports the development of crucial 21st century skills and the design process.

Start Building Little Futures Today!

Ready to transform your infant’s playtime into a powerhouse of learning? Bright Day Big Blocks offers the perfect collection of safe, durable EVA foam blocks designed specifically for babies and toddlers.

Give your little one the ultimate sensory and motor development experience.

• For the earliest builders: Explore the BIG Bright Block Kit for large, easy-to-grasp shapes.
• For imaginative exploration: Check out the Big Block Zoo to combine block play with pretend play.

Get in touch to shop the Bright Day Big Blocks collection and bring the fun of constructive play into your home or early childhood program! Call us at 01-818-914-6541 or email contact@brightdaybigblocks.com.

Sources

1. Yelland, N. (2011). Creating digital learning spaces for the 21st century. Early Child Development and Care, 181(5), 675-687.

PARTNERING WITH IPA, INTERNATIONAL PLAY ASSOCIATION AND ITS MEMBERSHIP – SHARING THIS NEW, GROUNDBREAKING FILM! 

Bright Day Foundation has produced a new documentary film, titled Growing Up Slowly, Play Is The Way! which will be screened to the membership of IPA, International Play Association members, this month, in celebration of the United Nations World Children’s Day, on November 20th.

Bright Day Foundation traveled the world, to countries that research indicates are “smarter” to study the link between play and learning in children. Bright Day visited best-practice schools and play-centers in The Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, and parts of England and the United States.  And as a result produced a foundational film, feature-length, beautiful in production and powerful in message. A film that Bright Day Foundation Co-Founder David Krishock says, “we believe will ultimately create a modern revolution in early childhood education – and will embed the radical notion that play is the best way for our children to learn!”

To perfect the films messaging, Bright Day partnered with International Play Association.
IPA, is the number one organization dedicated to play in the world.  Their mission is to protect, promote and provide play opportunities for all children, everywhere.  They are guided by a United Nations mandate, Article 31,  which guarantees the right of every child to play.
IPA is a global organization, with centers around the world, its largest in countries such as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, United States – many, many more.

The message of this film is powerful, but very simple:
~ Today’s children are play deprived, creating a global health emergency.
~ Play-based learning in schools works and is working to build children’s learning and create a love for learning more.
~ Play is really working in play environments to better develop a child’s heathy brain and body.
~ Children raised in play-based communities are in fact thriving as adults – pursuing their passions and living their best lives.
~ Now is the time to act – to aggressively advocate for play – in every corner of the world.
~ We must promote play for the health of our children, the ones we love the most, and for the betterment of society and the world’s future.

Both IPA and Bright Day Foundation are proud to pre-screen Growing Up Slowly, Play Is The Way! this November in recognition of World Children’s Day.  This film presentation will begin to generate awareness among educators and industry experts.  This presentation will build word-of-mouth necessary as this film embarks on its global distribution plan.
Krishock closes by saying, “there are close to 2 billion parents and educators worldwide that need to hear our important, inspiring film message, and we will do our best to reach every corner of the globe”.
To learn more about IPA, International Play Association you can reach out at communications@ipaworld.org

To learn more about Bright Day Foundation call 01 818 914 6541 or email contact@brightdayfoundstion.org

RETURNING FROM JAPAN,  BRIGHT DAY DEEPENS RELATIONSHIPS WITH IMPORTANT PLAY PARTNERS!

Our Bright Day team just returned from Tokyo and Osaka Japan, and a visit to BorneLund, the countries number one curator and provider of education based tools and toys for children, as well as the number one provider of playground play-spaces in the country.

There, Bright Day Co-Founder David Krishock participated in:
~ screenings of the Bright Day Foundation documentary film, Growing Up Slowly, Play Is The Way! In both Tokyo and Osaka.
~ And, the opening of The Cube, a breakthrough BorneLund education school concept, located in Osaka – combining traditional and progressive play-based learning.

Krishocks reports, “we love spending our time with education leaders like BorneLund.
At our documentary screening at the Konomi School in Osaka, the parents, teachers and students attending were overwhelmed with joy to see their school featured in our film. Please see the photo I’ve included here of the audience from one of the Konomi School screenings”.

“The Cube school concept, also in Osaka, is the perfect environment to feature Bright Day Big Blocks, especially our new Play Park playground.  I’ve also included here a photo of myself and Makoto Yoshioka, a BorneLund Board Director, at The Cube, discussing their play curriculum at this new school concept,” continues Krishock.

Bright Day Big Blocks and its nonprofit entity, Bright Day Foundation works with play innovators globally to help build awareness of the benefits of play in a child’s development.
With their Big Blocks Bright Day provides schools and play-centers a developmental tool that delivers on the promise that play and play-based learning is fun, and it really works to develop a child both cognitively and physically.

You can learn more about the power of play in a child’s world, and our magical Big Blocks by calling Bright Day at 01 818 914 6541 or emailing contact@brightdayfoundation.org

BRIGHT DAY BIG BLOCKS ADDS NEW GEARS AND CHUTES TO POPULAR BUILDERS SPACE KIT

Bright Day Big Blocks majors in big blocks, big kid-size soft foam building blocks for children that inspire them to create, to express themselves in building anything they can imagine. Youngsters usually build the things they love to think about the most – be it dinosaurs or robots, cityscapes or space stations or medieval castles, vehicles like trains and planes, insects or monsters – anything. The early childhood education community, specifically teachers, have applauded Bright Day over the years for helping them build cognitive skills such as creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and confidence in their children – as well as physical traits such as strength and stamina, coordination and dexterity, and more.

Who knew when Bright Day invented their product called Builders Space ® it would also be so loved, and enthusiastically supported by the education community. Builders Space was inspired by what’s come to be known as the Maker Movement in schools and play centers. The Maker Movement was invented in the early 2000’s and really began gaining traction by 2013. The Maker Movement encourages hands-on learning, and creative problem solving through tinkering.

Builders Space by Bright Day is a simple idea. The kit contains 21 flat panels that adhere to a wall, and sometimes the floor, each panel has holes, like a peg board. Made to be used with the panels are 300 smaller, hand size building blocks that enable children to build off of the wall, and up from the floor. Builders Space comes as a kit, the panels and blocks can create a builder or maker space about 5 feet tall and over 10 feet long.

South Korea, long known for their progressive approach to educating their young children, has used the Builders Space extensively. Changsook Kim, head of the Greem School in Seoul has installed the biggest Builders Space wall and floor in the world. She says, “why wouldn’t we give the children a place, their space, where anything is creatively possible?” She continues, “Builders Space is more than a place to play, it is a place to learn – where children can learn math, science, and through dreaming and storytelling build their vocabulary – it’s a special, magical place”.

Due to its success, new to Builders Space this coming school year are two add-ons kits, one called Gears and the other Chutes. The Chutes can be explained as blocks with channels that enable balls to run through them – the channel blocks hang on the building wall and children find a dozen ways to have fun, rolling the balls through the channels blocks – and maybe in the process learn about gravity and science. The Gear blocks employ a ratchet system and when installed on the wall by children they create a fun and fantastic configuration full of circular motion – and learn about energy and physics.

David Krishock, a co-founder at Bright Day Big Blocks comments – “we would love to claim genius on Builders Space, but the fact is that our teacher community always provides us with the best and brightest ideas”. He continues, “children playing with gear and chute type products have been available and in use for decades – we just updated the idea a bit, married the idea up with our Builders Space – and voila! – more fun, more ways for young children to play and learn”.

Builders Space is available at Bright Day Big Blocks now. And beginning July 1, 2025 new Gears and Chutes will be available and added to the USA and International product catalogs. Contact Bright Day Big Blocks and nonprofit Bright Day Foundation at contact@brightdaybigblocks.com
or 01-818-914-6541.

About Bright Day Big Blocks

BRIGHT DAY BIG BLOCKS is a fun, new and unique play system designed to stimulate creative play. Bright Day offers big, soft blocks and designs play space environments that peaks a child’s curiosity, unlocks creativity, inspires collaboration, and builds confidence. Our big foam blocks enable play that builds cognitive, physical, emotional and social skills important to the development of all children. Bright Day can be found throughout the world in schools and play centers – on playgrounds, in libraries, children’s hospitals, family resort hotels, airports, family restaurants, public parks, summer camps – anywhere and everywhere you find children playing. Bright Day Big Blocks are transforming children’s lives through play!

DONATIONS TO BRIGHT DAY FOUNDATION SUPPORT TITLE 1 SCHOOLS IN AMERICA

LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, June 23, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ — Laurel Tucker wears two hats every day – she is a classically trained, celebrated fine artist, as well as
a founder of nonprofit organization Bright Day Foundation and for-profit company Bright Day Big Blocks.

Decades ago Laurel Tucker attended Peck School of the Arts, in Milwaukee, which is part of the University of Wisconsin system. There she studied illustration, print making, painting and pottery. Today she is a recognized fine artist with her work on display in galleries and museums nationwide – most recently her botanical illustrations were featured at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.

Although a fine artist by nature, in the 1980’s she transitioned into the fast-paced world of commercial art, spending the next decade at top ten global advertising agencies contributing creatively to clients such as Kellogg’s cereals, Skittles candies, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, Oscar Myer Lunchables, Gerber baby products, among others. She won national and international recognition for her advertising creative work.

But by nature Laurel Tucker is, and always will be a fine artist – majoring in botanical illustration, and abstract water color painting. As well as a lover of all children, always supporting their happy, healthy development through the power of play and play-based learning.

Since May of this year Laurel Tucker’s work has been on display, and featured in a gallery exhibit titled
“In + Out of the Frame”, in San Antonio, Texas – where 100% of the proceeds from the sale of her art will benefit the Bright Day Foundation, and specifically its child development program called Title One Derful.

Title One Derful benefits Title 1 schools, which are those most financially in need. Title One Derful donations are translated into classroom learning tool Bright Day Big Blocks, where the children are given an opportunity to play, and by engaging in creative, child directed play, they learn so much. Laurel Tucker says, “I love sharing my artistic expressions, my illustrations and paintings, and if donations through the sale of my art helps children creatively express themselves through play with Bright Day Big Blocks, well then that’s just fantastic, isn’t it!”

To learn more about Laurel Tucker’s art, her charitable work at Bright Day Foundation, and the Title One Derful program, you can reach the organization at contact@brightdayfoundation.org or by calling 01-818-914-6541.

About Bright Day Foundation

Bright Day Foundation is a USA government registered 501c3 nonprofit charitable organization.
Its mission is to help educators and engaged parents better understand the critical nature of play in the cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development of all children. Its goal is to create a modern revolution, acting to reinvent an antiquated early childhood education system and embed the radical notion that quite possibly play is the best way for children to learn.

Bright Day Foundation advances its mission and goal by:
Creating, producing and distributing instructional content for adults – i.e. its feature global film documentary, GROWING UP SLOWLY, PLAY IS THE WAY!
Distributing how-to classroom learning aids for teachers – i.e. its PLAY. THEME + PROJECT based school CURRICULUM.

Donating play tools to underserved Title 1 schools, tools that inspire play and learning i.e. its BRIGHT DAY BIG BLOCKS donated via its TITLE ONE DERFUL giving program.
Bright Day Foundation is here to help the world, to help children play, and by doing so learn!
Bright Day Foundation is transforming children’s lives through play!

NEXT STEPS IN LAUNCH OF OUR PLAY BASED FILM DOCUMENTARY

Last month, January in the warm, sunny mountains of northern Los Angeles an eager group of educators and parents gathered at Westland School to pre-screen a rough edit of documentary film, PLAY IS THE WAY.

David Krishock and Laurel Tucker, Founders of the Bright Day Play and Bright Day Foundation, who funded production of this film, sum up this initiative by saying, “Our project began as a book but quickly evolved to a film to more easily reach the billions of educators and parents worldwide. Everyone knows that play is important for children, but few know just how important play is to the cognitive and emotional, the physical and social development of children. Our children, the ones we love the most!

By working with medical doctors and education experts we learned that there are smarter countries in the world, and many of them use play to better develop their children. With our film production crew we traveled the world, 8 smarter countries, and 20 locations, speaking with dozens of experts, and playing with hundreds of children. This film will take our audience to places they have never seen before – to best-practice schools and play centers that demonstrate in tangible ways how play is the best way for children to learn, to learn everything, and enabling them to build a lifelong love of learning. Today, globally, children are suffering from play depravation, what doctors refer to as a medical emergency, a global crisis – but through our films message there is a solution – and play is the way.
Our film calls for a modern revolution – for parents and educators to advocate for more play and play-based learning in schools – to demand much better for our children, and to do so now.”

The film screening at Westland School was introduced by Head of School, Melinda Tsapatsaris. And her message to her guests that evening underscored “the importance of the message related to play and play-based learning” – as well as her and her staffs pride in “being included and involved in the film project”.

David Krishock thanks Westland School. Westland School was one of 20 film participants, but the one that helped anchor the film project. David Krishock further states – “we could not have successfully completed this film project without Melinda, and the help, support, and guidance of the entire Westland School community. In total we worked at Westland for approximately a months’ time – so in addition to Melinda and her top team we salute the parents that allowed their children to participate, those parents we filmed explaining the school’s academic approach, the teachers that provided classroom access so we could capture the students magical learning moments on film, and the school support staff that made our film crew always feel comfortable.”

The pre-screening brought waves of emotion, roarous laughter and tears of joy, educators and parents witnessing a film expression of their academic philosophy as well as their amazing children engaged in incredible moments of dreaming, doing, and learning.

Stay tuned for more updates as the film is completed, continues global pre-screening, and ultimately finds a home on streaming platforms and in theaters. To find out more about the film, and local viewing opportunities reach out to us at contact@brightdayfoundation.org – or call us at +1 818 914 6541.

About Bright Day Foundation

Bright Day Foundation is a USA government registered 501c3 nonprofit charitable organization. Our mission is to help educators and engaged parents better understand the critical nature of play in the cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development of all children. Our goal is to create a modern revolution, acting now to reinvent an antiquated early childhood education system and embed the radical notion that play is the best way for children to learn.

Bright Day Foundation advances its mission and goal by:
Creating, producing and distributing instructional content for adults – i.e. our feature global film documentary, PLAY IS THE WAY!

Distributing how-to classroom learning aid for teachers – i.e. our PLAY. THEME + PROJECT based preschool CURRICULUM.

Donating play tools to underserved schools, tools that inspire play and learning i.e. our BRIGHT DAY BIG BLOCKS donated via our TITLE WONDERFUL giving program.

We are here to help the world, to help your children Play, and by doing so Learn! Bright Day Foundation is transforming children’s lives through Play!

MORE FUN, MORE WAYS THROUGH NEW PRODUCT INNOVATION

New product development companies often use claims like – decades in the making! …. or …. created by astronauts in outer space! – and when we all hear claims like that we know, well, those claims are a bit overstated.

Our newest Big Block innovation was created over the last few months, and right here in California, with a group of children and their teachers. And actually, it’s not rocket-science, but it does underscore how when children connect simple shapes, into whatever they can imagine, how that very simple act can enable such wonderful creative expression.

“The idea came one day from watching a group of pre-school children playing with our Big Blocks”, says Laurel Tucker, Co-Founder at Bright Day. “Everyone knows the magic of the Big Blocks is how children stack the blocks, and roll balls through channel blocks, and fasten together the different blocks with our different size connectors. Well, on this particular day the children were connecting, and connecting, and connecting – making expansive structures all joined together, it was marvelous”, she says. Continuing, “that is where the idea for BIG LINK BIG BLOCKS began”.

BIG LINK is all about 14 unique connecting shapes, and about attaching, or joining, and fastening, or coupling, and hitching or bolting, and all that – linking the block pieces into as many creative possibilities as a young mind can imagine. The children made vehicles like airplanes, helicopters, and autos – they made animals like elephants, and tigers – they made creatures like robots and monsters – they made boys and girls – they made city buildings and country ranches – the children made furniture that could be used in their bedrooms and classrooms – they spent hours and some spent days building and creating.

We have attached some photos, inspired by the builds we have seen made thus far – and when you see these you will know – pretty darn amazing – and there is so much more – more imagination, more creativity, more building.

It’s well known by educators that our Big Blocks offer so much in the way of cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development – all the creativity and imagination – all the collaboration and communication – all the critical thinking and problem solving – all the self-esteem and confidence building. The strength and stamina, coordination and dexterity – and so much more.

We are gearing up now to make BIG LINK BIG BLOCKS immediately available and part of our 2025 ongoing inventory – so we are taking customer orders right now.

Please reach out to us with thoughts and questions at contact@brightdaybigblocks.com or at +1 818 914 6541 to discuss this new, innovative Big Block kit. And as always – thank you for loving Bright Day Big Blocks!

About Bright Day Big Blocks

BRIGHT DAY BIG BLOCKS is a fun, new and unique play system designed to stimulate creative play.  Bright Day offers big, soft blocks and designs play space environments that peaks a child’s curiosity, unlocks creativity, inspires collaboration, and builds confidence.  Our big foam blocks enable play that builds cognitive, physical, emotional, and social skills important to the development of all children.  Bright Day can be found throughout the world – in schools and play centers, on playgrounds, in libraries, hospitals, family resort hotels, airports, restaurants, public parks, summer camps – anywhere and everywhere you find children playing.  Bright Day Big Blocks are transforming children’s lives through Play!

ANNOUNCING A NEW BRIGHT DAY PARTNERSHIP IN LONDON ENGLAND

We love bringing creative play to youngsters – it’s our mission, our job.  We know that the more that children play the more they have fun, and develop their cognitive, physical, emotional and social abilities.

Earlier this year we crossed the globe to England to partner with two great play initiatives.

You all are familiar with our collaboration with the renowned Victoria & Albert Museum – the Young V&A. They feature our Bright Day Big Blocks, and are participating with us on our Play Is The Way! documentary film premiering later in 2024 and in 2025.

We are extremely happy to announce a new Big Block Play collaboration with Fantastic Play, in London, England. 

Some years back we met Ella McCartney, an artist and educator who has researched the availability of free (no charge), creative, play opportunities for urban children and families. She found local children to have extremely limited avenues of creative expression and it is her mission to help change that dynamic.

Ella’s desire is to help children develop their imaginations by creating pop-up environments for children to practice open-play, the type of free-spirited play without any predetermined outcome.

Ella created what she calls the Fantastic Play Kit, which includes a myriad of loose parts – fabrics, balls, and of course our Bright Day 120 piece set of Big Green Blocks – enough blocks to deeply engage 20 curious children – enabling and developing cognitive functions such as creativity and self-expression – collaboration and communication – critical thinking and problem solving – confidence and self-esteem. Also, physical functions such as strength and stamina – coordination and dexterity – and much more.
We also provided Ella our Big Zoo Animals – elephant, giraffe, the cutest camel and more – what Fun!

Ella loves Bright Day Big Blocks not only because of the creative play they provide – but their large size and scale helps to garner attention, attracting more families and children to her open play spaces when active.

Ella, right now, late summer, is demonstrating the power of her Fantastic Play Kit
in different outdoor public play spaces in and around London.  And, as the weather turn chillier she plans to even include the season’s offerings in the play sessions – such as fallen leaves, acorns, and rain – what Fun!

Ella deeply believes in the power of play – she knows plays availability is shrinking for children – she believes creating open, easy access play spaces will help. And we at Bright Day Big Blocks support Ella McCartney 100%.

Congratulations Ella on your Fantastic Play Kit!  And Hooray for Play!

About Bright Day Big Blocks

Bright Day Big Blocks is a fun, new and unique play system designed to stimulate creative play.  Bright Day offers big soft blocks and designs play space environments that peaks a child’s curiosity, unlocks creativity, inspires collaboration, and builds confidence.  These big foam blocks encourage play that builds cognitive, physical, emotional, and social skills important in the development of all children.  Bright Day can be found all around the world – in schools and play centers – on playgrounds, in libraries, hospitals, family resort hotels, airports, restaurants, public parks, and camps – anywhere you find children playing.  Bright Day Big Blocks is transforming children’s lives through creative play – building stronger brains and bodies and enabling a brighter future for our children.

About Bright Day Foundation

Bright Day Foundation is not-for-profit charitable organization whose mission is to help educators and engaged parents better understand the importance of play and the power of play in a child’s development.  And, in gaining an appreciation for the critical nature of play, become an active community advocate for more play!

The Bright Day Foundation advances is mission and goals by:

~ Creating, producing and distributing instructional content for adults – i.e.: our global feature film documentary, PLAY IS THE WAY!   https://playistheway.film/

~ Distributing how-to classroom learning aids to teachers – i.e.: our PLAY THEME PROJECT based curriculum  https://brightdaybigblocks.com/classroom-curriculum/

~ Donating play-based tools to underserved schools in the USA that inspire play and learning i.e.: our BRIGHT DAY BIG BLOCKS donated via our TITLE-ONE-DERFUL giving 

program  https://brightdaybigblocks.com/

We are here to help you help your children Play + Learn!

NOTHING BETTER THAN BESTIES!

And at Bright Day Big Blocks Schools and Play Centers are ours …. Best Friends that is!

Here at Bright Day this past school year we have been in touch with hundreds, actually about two thousand schools and play centers – educators and highly engaged parents worldwide – chatting daily about play, play-based learning as well as our curriculum and our block products – all these connections helping contribute to early childhood development.  All boosting the understanding of how play helps develop a child’s social, emotional, physical and cognitive abilities.

Thanks to all of our friends this past school year – current and new – for trusting Bright Day with your children’s play plans – we are honored to have such great friends – and we are always willing to do whatever you need to help you help your children play to learn.

We are celebrating a simply amazing 2023-24 school year – where more of our curriculum, and more of our blocks went to more children than ever before in our organization’s history.  And we vow to continue to serve you mightily by making everything we offer more accessible – more ideas and innovation – continued highest quality at the best prices – we guarantee, we promise. Because we love you – you all are our partners in the development of childhood education – our Best Friends.

Oh – to explain the picture of Bright Day Big Blocks Co-Founder Laurel Tucker at the top of the blog – she’s with another best friend – Alya, a recent rescue, a real lover – an Aussie Shepherd and Great Pyrenees mix, and maybe some other bits –  nothing better than a best friend.  Ayla loves to play too!

Happy Summer, Play On!

Feel welcome to contact us at contact@brightdaybigblocks.com to also update on:
~ Update on our documentary film titled – PLAY IS THE WAY! scheduled to premiere later this year – our tribute to the importance of play and play-based learning, brought to you from best practice centers worldwide.
~ And, update on our upcoming television series titled Bright Day Block Party! – where teams of children demonstrate the importance of play while building their dreams.  Check out our pre-pilot episode on YouTube and Facebook video later this month.

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Education Company Preparing For Filming TV Pilot

This coming fall Bright Day Big Blocks plans to film a pilot episode of a newly created television series titled Block Party!  In preparation for that endeavor, this past week Bright Day was trial filming at a kindergarten, testing out its unique reality series format.

David Krishock, Bright Day Co-Founder says, “filming a education-based reality television program is exciting – but with so many variables, especially when the series features young children, we need all the practice we can get”.
He continues by saying, “people always say practice makes it perfect, around here we’ve begun saying, practice makes a pilot”.

Last week David Krishock, Bright Day Co-Founder Laurel Tucker – and a camera crew representing film production company Partners In Cinema from Austin, Texas, USA visited a local kindergarten to proof out their television concept meant to attract a family viewing audience.

Block Party! features 3 teams of 3 children each, 4-6 years olds.
The children create a common play theme – the chosen theme for this test episode was wild animals.
The children then design or draw what they are dreaming about building.
This is followed by building their design with loose parts, much of which are Bright Day Big Blocks.
Once finished building their idea or design the children story-tell about what they built and why they love it.  And finally the children are recognized for their creativity, their collaboration, or their critical thinking skills.

“Our session with the kindergarteners was just amazing, says David Krishock.  Not only did the television program elements work extremely well, but myself and the other adults witnessing and participating in the play sessions have seldom laughed so hard and for so long – children at play are so creative, delightful and amazing in so many ways.

Bright Day is an education-based company that believes play is quite possibly the best way for children to learn.
“We believe play develops the cognitive, physical, emotional, and social aspects as children grow. Play unlocks curiosity and builds creativity and use of imagination, communication and collaboration, critical thinking and problem solving, self-assurance and confidence.  Play develops strength and stamina, coordination and balance, fine and gross motor skills, strong bones and organs, helps control weight.
It’s been said that play is as vital to a child’s development as air, water and food, and we at Bright Day believe and endorse that 100%”.

Next step in filming the television show is to take the learning from this trial episode to the site the pilot will be filmed at – kidSTREAM Children’s Museum in Los Angeles, California.  David Krishock concludes, “everyone involved looks forward to bringing Bright Day Block Party to a broad national television audience.  Our purpose, our work is to promote the power of play and play-based learning – and we do this by providing educators and engaged parents tools like our curriculum, and our big blocks.
Working with kidSTREAM in providing educational content is yet another key step in helping parents and teachers better build children’s brains and bodies”.

In addition to Bright Days venture into television content, its non profit foundation is in the final stages of launching a global film documentary titled – Play Is The Way!  For more information on this project visit www.playistheway.film

Learn more about everything Bright Day – Big Blocks, Play-Based Curriculum, Film + Television Content by visiting our website at www.brightdaybigblocks.com
or by calling 818-914-6541.