Ben Brown

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 [email protected] 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.

“Today’s uneven economy has play centers and schools scrambling financially to update facilities and offer programs that truly help children play to learn”, says David Krishock, Co-Founder of Bright Day Learning.

We speak to hundreds of schools and child care organizations each month about our play philosophy, about our curriculum, about our play-to-lean Big Blocks.  And a consistent and common theme today is the economy – more specifically – how todays economy is restricting spending on new plans and programs to help young children develop both physically and cognitively.  We discuss with educators and teachers how they want to be better equipped to unlock their children’s curiosity, build creativity, enable collaboration among their children,

and build confidence!  And, we compare notes on how play helps them pursue their goals.

When educators, teachers, and care givers speak – we listen – at Bright Day we are 100% programmed to serve our community.

So, we are happy to launch a new program we call – PLAY NOY, PAY LATER! ™

Simply explained – the program details are as simple as the programs name – contact us, order your Block set and make a nominal down payment, and follow up with two added payments over the next months.

Simple – Yes!

Helpful to those feeling financially restrained – Yes!

School districts often provide us purchase orders that allow us to ship our Blocks to schools prior to paying.  PLAY NOW, PAY LATER! can help everyone else get our magical Blocks in the hands of amazing Kids as soon as possible.  We can work together to get more children playing and more children learning through play.

David Krishock encourages every preschool, nursery, daycare, pre-K, kindergarten, lower school, public library, children’s museum, nature, science, discovery center – everyone and anyone to call Bright Day to learn more about PLAY NOW, PAY LATER!

He concludes by saying, “this another Gift of Play to our community we are proud to offer – we know our Blocks work to engage and develop children – we see today that some in our community are struggling financially – we always want to help, and we can easily help here”.

To learn more about Bright Day Big Blocks and our Bright Day Foundation please call

+1 818 914 6541 or email [email protected].  You can also enjoy our stories, videos, and photos by engaging with us on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.  You can also connect direct with David Krishock on LinkedIn.

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 around the world – in schools, playgrounds, libraries, hospitals, family resort hotels, airports, restaurants, public parks, camps – anywhere you find children playing. Bright Day Big Blocks is transforming lives through play – building stronger brains and bodies and enabling a brighter future for our children.

About Bright Day Foundation

Bright Day Foundation is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to help educators and parents better understand the importance of play in the development of children. And, in gaining an appreciation for plays importance – parent and educators become community advocates for more play!

The Foundation advances its mission and goals by:

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

~ Disseminating how-to classroom learning materials like our PLAY, THEME + PROJECT BASED curriculum https://brightdaybigblocks.com/classroom-curriculum/

~ Donating tools that inspire play and learning like our Bright Day Big Blocks to underserved schools in the United States through our TITLE-ONE-DERFUL Giving Program https://brightdaybigblocks.com

We are here to help you, our community, help your children through the power of Play!