Bright Day Big Blocks serves educators worldwide, working with organizations, like schools and children’s play centers, that help youngsters build their cognitive, physical and social skills. Bright Day offers big foam blocks for play that unlock a creative spirit in younger children – https://brightdaybigblocks.com
Bright Day speaks with Teachers each and every day. Over the last three weeks Bright Day’s interaction with Teachers has left the company with a bit of worry. Teachers are having to carve new pathways to be in touch with their kids during this unsettled time.
Laurel Tucker, Co-Founder of Bright Day Big Blocks says “the Teachers we have spoken to are 100% dedicated to keeping in touch and helping their children as much as possible during this “Safer At Home” period. As we speak to Teachers we can hear the worry for their children in their voices. This impressive Teacher effort makes us want to help in any way we can – we all love and greatly respect our community of Teachers.”
Laurel Tucker explains, “based on who we are and what we do here at Bright Day we would like to try and break some of the stress of the moment – maybe bring a smile to our Teacher’s faces – and we believe we can do so with a gift.
Right now we are manufacturing thousands of our Bright Day mini Block Builder Puzzles – it’s a fun and engaging toy with over 62 mini blocks that anyone can use to build whatever they can imagine. We hope this will bring relaxation and hopefully a smile to our Teachers,” she says.
To claim a Bright Day mini Block Builder Puzzle certified Teachers simply visit the Bright Day Big Blocks website https://brightdaybigblocks.com/contact, provide school name, mailing information, and the mini Block Builder Puzzle will be shipped.” Laurel Tucker continues, “we expect to have 5000 mini Block Builder Puzzles in our office next week – we would love for Teachers from every corner of the USA to have a chance to relax and create – this offer is good until every last one of those Puzzles has found a home.”
“Teachers – we love you – please accept our gift of creativity,” says Laurel Tucker.
A message from Laurel Tucker, Co-Founder, Bright Day Big Blocks …..
The time is right to bring back our beloved Gift Of Play program – we are here to help!
Over the last three weeks, we have been in touch with Educators about the closing of schools. Many have told us the “doors might be closed to the children, parents, and the community, but schools in many ways must operate as though they are open for business.” School Administrators have told us our block products are on their list of new items to purchase before the end of the school year. They are looking for the best play and learn big block experience for their kids – and the best price for their budgeted dollars.
Good news Educators – welcome back our Bright Day Big Blocks Gift Of Play program!
Gift of Play is a Bright Day Big Blocks program that rewards advocates of play-based learning. We encourage these organizations to be in touch, make us a reasonable offer for our blocks, and they could be theirs. We do everything we can to offer our blocks at the BEST prices of the year, at our cost. We help organizations fulfill their big-block building dreams for their children.
Co-Founder, Laurel Tucker says – “with conditions the way they are we feel we can help right now – our community of schools and children’s play centers have told us our Bright Day Blocks bring great joy. Bright Day Big Blocks is most interested in helping children learn and grow through play – and less interested in profits – if we help our community everything works out for the best,”she continues.
How can you and your organization participate in Gift Of Play? Contact Laurel Tucker, Co-Founder of Bright Day Big Blocks at laurel@brightdaybigblocks.com. Please provide your name, organization, address, phone number, and email – this will begin the process. This Gift Of Play program begins March 23rd and continues through May 31, 2020 – our springtime offer includes ALL of our products – Big, Medium and Small blocks – in single color and multi-color forms.
Laurel Tucker continues by saying “this past fall of 2019 our Gift Of Play program helped hundreds oforganizations and thousands of children play and learn with Bright Day Big Blocks. Through BEST pricing we provided communities accessto products that otherwise might not have been affordable. Today if there is an organization out there that has Bright Day Big Blocks on their TO DO list we are going TO DO OUR PART to help.”
It is 9:00 pm on Friday, January 24th and the production crew has wrapped up the final day of filming at Brooklyn Children’s Museum in New York City. This completes phase one – three months of filming, two cities and three locations. Although exhausted, the production crew is pleased with their work and they have two months before traveling overseas for more.
This film documentary project began in 2005, when Bright Day was formed, and crystallized shortly thereafter when David Krishock, Co-Founder of Bright Day began researching the where and why of better educated youngsters around the globe. At that point Mr. Krishock, a serious advocate of play based learning, decided his story had to be told in order to expedite a revolution in preschool education, a reinvention using the principles of play based learning as a foundation.
“Sorry if this sounds like an alarm bell ringing, but it is, the time is now, educators and parents are key in fueling a broad scale reinvention of early childhood development. Play based learning is quite possibly the best way for a young mind and body to grow,” states Krishock. “Our children are far too important to be relegated to an antiquated baby-sitter system. Play is the way forward,” he continues.
Bright Day began studying play based learning years ago, and began piecing together their global film project partners to assist in telling this story. These play to learn believers and innovators are located in some of the worlds top countries – partners practicing in Denmark, Japan, South Korea, England, and the United States. In the USA, where filming just wrapped, the project partners include Columbia University Teachers College, and their Hollingworth Preschool, The Brooklyn Children’s Museum, and Bay Area Discovery Museum’s, The Discovery School, outside San Francisco.
These organizations practice the principles of play based learning – which includes a child focused, child directed approach, employing theme and project based learning. Using themes chosen by children holds their interest and ongoing engagement, allowing for a natural learning process. In employing these methods there are valuable benefits for children including – enhancing communication and collaboration, improving self-expression and creativity, generating curiosity, employing experimentation, questioning and problem solving, building of self-esteem and confidence. The cognitive development resulting from play based learning helps children acquire a better conceptual understanding of math, science, reading, writing, and use of technology, better preparing them for elementary school.
From New York this film crew travels to Asia this spring to work with film project partners in Tokyo, Japan and Seoul, South Korea. This summer the crew heads to Europe, working with two partners in England and Denmark. “Without the support of our partners, without their knowledge and practice of play based learning, we would not have proof that play works best for developing young minds and bodies,” says Krishock.
The filming of this documentary will be complete in 2020, and ready for global distribution in 2021. “The sooner we can share our message, and highly engage educators and parents, the sooner we can unite our efforts to reinvent and improve. Bright Day is wholly committed to changing the system of preschool education globally – one preschool at a time,” says Krishock
In addition to Bright Day Foundation producing its film documentary, it is completing work on its play based preschool curriculum to be launched in 2020. Also, the Bright Day Big Block cooperative https://brightdaybigblocks.com is launching several new learn while you play block products this year. “Our film documentary creates awareness, while our curriculum and blocks create practice – its is our goal to provide play solutions for educators, parents and children from all directions,” says Krishock.
But, on this evening, late in January – the production crew is ecstatic over successfully capturing on film hundreds of joyful children at play – and resting up for the international phase of the documentary that promises to change the world – one preschool at a time.
About Bright Day Foundation
Bright Day Foundation is a not for profit, 501(c)(3) charitable organization whose mission is to help educators and parents better understand the importance of play in the development of preschool children. The Foundation accomplishes its goal by creating, producing and distributing instructional content for adults, as well as fun, learning based tools for children. Founded in 2005, the Foundation has helped millions of children build stronger minds and bodies, enabling their positive contribution to our society.
About Bright Day Big Blocks
Bright Day Big Blocks is a fun, new and unique play system designed to transform children’s minds and bodies through creative, child directed play. Bright Day offers big soft play blocks and builds play space environments that peak a child’s curiosity, unlocks creativity, inspires collaboration, and builds self-esteem and confidence. These blocks encourage play that builds cognitive, physical, emotional, and social skills important in the development of all children. Bright Day Big Blocks can be found around the world, in schools, playgrounds, libraries, hospitals, airports, restaurants, hotels and resorts, public parks, camps, and almost anywhere you find children playing.
Greetings from Laurel Tucker, Co-founder of Bright Day Big Blocks.
At Bright Day Foundation we love the holiday season – it’s about friends, family, and giving. You have asked us if we will continue the tradition of our beloved GIFT OF PLAY program this year – the answer is YES!
Children Have to Play – And we are always here to help – that’s what GIFT OF PLAY is all about.
You simply call or email me, make a reasonable offer on our BRIGHT DAY BIG BLOCK 120 or 60 piece kit – and it is YOURS – simple as that. KIDS WIN, and that’s what’s most important.
Our Bright Day Play Goal over the next year is to bring big block play to more than 1 million children, 2 million parents, and 3 million educators. GIFT OF PLAY will help us reach our goal. And, will help you bring the power of play-based learning to your kids. Please accept our GIFT OF PLAY. Offer valid on 120 piece BIG BLOCK KIT and 60 piece BIG BLOCK KIT. The program runs October 25 thru January 5th – offer valid only in USA.
Fall is our favorite time of year at Bright Day Big Blocks. Here – it is all about what’s happening there – with you and your children.
During the Back to School season, we offer every organization an opportunity to be gifted a Big Block Kit through our annual Submit 2 Win initiative – Hooray! That kit will be awarded on October 21, 2019.
And as we approach the holiday season, we shift to our Bright Day annual Gift of Play program. Participants win big two ways in Gift of Play – as a Thank You gift for loving our blocks we offer our lowest kit prices of the year (already average half the cost of competitors – so now a bigger savings). Plus, we will be gifting organizations 3 Block Kits – a Big Block Kit, a Medium Block Kit, and a Small Block Kit. And these kits will be awarded at year-end. Oh Wow! – Gift of Play – our way for saying Thank You to all our friends.
For more information please call and speak with Co-Founder, Laurel Tucker or myself at 818-914-6541 or email us at contact@brightdaybigblocks.com.
Happy Fall Season – And, Please – Come Play With Us!
“A company favorite for years – Submit 2 Win! is back this fall” – says Dave Krishock, Co-Founder of Bright Day Big Blocks.
The gift some fortunate school or organization will win is a big, beautiful, green Big Block 120 piece kit. Our Big Blocks enable about 20 kids at a time to stack blocks, channel balls through blocks, and connect blocks – fueling kids curiosity, expressing their creativity, building collaboration and their confidence.
Our blocks are big fun, soft play blocks and are quickly becoming a favorite worldwide.
“Anyone can Submit 2 Win – and can do so as often as they like” – says Krishock – “just go to our website – www.brightdaybigblocks.com – go to our Contact form, fill it out and you’ve got a chance to win big – Big Blocks that is”.
The program runs August 19th through October 18th. The winner of Submit 2 Win! Will be announced November 1st, 2019.
Bright Day Big Blocks proudly reports that we exceeded our funding goal in our initial community fundraising campaign!
Thank You to all that visited our Indiegogo page, our web site – and most of all Thank You to the 56 backers that contributed to our business accelerator campaign. Also, Thank You for the emails and phone calls of support.
We had folks that purchased our Blocks for their kids – or bought our Blocks to gift to organizations – like the THINKERY Children’s Museum in Austin, TX, the BOYS & GIRLS CLUB in Malibu, CA, CHURCHLAND ELEMENTARY in Lexington, NC – and more.
We also had cash donations – and we can assure everyone that contributed cash that each and every dollar will go to building awareness via our marketing campaigns this fall. People that know our Blocks LOVE our blocks – so building awareness helps get more Blocks in the hands of children worldwide.
Now we ready ourselves for our new Back To School program. But, to those still interested in our Indiegogo specials you can visit us in their InDemand Program where we will be active until December, 31, 2019.
For the growing number of educators that follow Bright Day Big Blocks – they know it’s a relatively new business – launched globally last November 2018, and in USA last March 2019.
In an effort to successfully launch this new company Bright Day is partnering with the popular business accelerator platform Indiegogo. Indiegogo enables Bright Day to solicit support for its innovative products by providing access to millions of people who are interested in what’s new, what’s next, what’s great in early childhood development.
The Bright Day Campaign begins on Wednesday, June 19th and runs for 60 days. During that period the public, mostly engaged parents and early childhood educators will be given the gift of choosing from 7 outstanding products at equally outstanding discounted prices.
The entire purpose of the Bright Day / Indiegogo Campaign is to get the word out there – get the product out there – and help the kids!
Very simply we say: US HELPING YOU HELPS EVERYONE!
Bright Day Big Blocks are offered at the lowest price ever – kids get the blocks, and as they play the learn and grow – and, we generate funds to further fuel our companies mission.
Company Co-Founders – Laurel Tucker and Dave Krishock hope that everyone that hears about the Campaign tell 4 of their friends – if so, more folks will be talking about the benefits of play – and some may just take advantage of this outstanding offer. As Laurel Tucker said when the collaboration between indiegogo and Bright Day was created – “it’s just a great big win, win, win”! Check out the Campaign by visiting https://bit.ly/2IUOJ0h.
About Bright Day Big Blocks Bright Day LLC and the Bright Day Foundation – a 501(c)(3) charitable organization was founded in 2005.
Bright Day Big Blocks was created to encourage play and unlock a child’s creativity. Giant sized, lightweight, colorful, soft and safe foam blocks that allow young children to build whatever they can imagine. Children learn while playing with our blocks – they spark curiosity, self-expression, teamwork, a feeling of accomplishment – and so much more. Bright Day Big Blocks is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and is currently distributed in 25 countries worldwide. To learn more about Bright Day or our Foundation please reach out to us at contact@brightdaybigblocks.com or +1-818-914-6541.
Although a brand new business – Bright Day Big Blocks is already making an impact on children around the world!
Available now in over 25 countries we have settled on some exciting 2019 Play Goals:
Block Kits – 200
Kids – 250,000
Educators + Parents – 525 000
Our goal of reaching 250,000 children in 2019 keeps us excited and working hard to spread the news of Bright Day Big Blocks. We believe that play is as vital to children as food, air and sleep – and we also believe that Bright Day Big Blocks offers an important learn while you play benefit.
You can help us accomplish our mission – be in touch so we can help you learn more about Bright Day Big Blocks – www.brightdaybigblocks.com – and spread the good word to your friends and community about this powerful new way to play. We promise to keep you updated as we move forward to help kids build stronger brains and bodies through the power of creative play.
This past winter Bright Day Big Blocks gladly agreed to help Miami Children’s Museum build out their new exhibit space called Construction Zone. The project was created by the Museum with the aid of NorthStar Museums & Education, and Skolnick Architecture + Design. Last month, April the Museum opened the Construction Zone to rave reviews from their community. The kids had an opportunity to build off a Bright Day Big Green Block Building Wall – connecting blocks from the wall – and carrying their creations to an open play space with close to 200 additional green blocks waiting to be stacked, connected, and have balls launched through the block channels.
“Bright Day Big Blocks launched their new company late in 2018 – and since that time have been involved in many custom design projects worldwide”, says David Krishock, Co-Founder of Bright Day. He continued, “we love taking our green and multi-colored block kits and applying them to custom designs. The cost is surprisingly low – and the visual and play impact is just enormous.”
Bright Day has not yet visited Miami Children’s Museum since the opening of Construction Zone – but a trip is being planned. According to Krishock, “There is nothing better than watching the children discover the blocks, experiment with the blocks, build with the blocks, and actually watch the kids’ design dream come true. We love observing the kids play and learn. For them, playing with our blocks is never the same twice – it’s so amazing.”
Visit the Miami Children’s Museum online at www.miamichildrensmuseum.org or in person at 980 MacArthur Causeway, Miami, Florida.
Bright Day Big Blocks serves educators worldwide, working with organizations, like schools and children’s play centers, that help youngsters build their cognitive, physical and social skills. Bright Day offers big foam blocks for play that unlock a creative spirit in younger children – https://brightdaybigblocks.com
