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BRIGHT DAY INTRODUCES ITS NEW BIG BLOCK PLAY PARK, ™ AN ACTIVE PLAY SOLUTION EVERYONE LOVES!

Created by Teachers! + Approved By Kids!!

As springtime approaches – and educators thoughts begin to turn to outdoor as well as indoor play options – BRIGHT DAY BIG BLOCKS is excited to introduce another new Big Block play product.

This new products official name is BRIGHT DAY BIG BLOCK PLAY PARK™.  

“About a year ago teachers assigned us a project – to design a portable, Active Play system, using our durable yet soft and certified safe EVA foam, says David Krishock, Co-Founder, BRIGHT DAY BIG BLOCKS.  “We were told this new system should inspire Active Play, encouraging youngsters to jump, roll, tumble, slide, crawl, hide ‘n seek, run – all the actions that deeply engage a youngsters body and brain.  It was requested the play system be made up of lots of unique pieces – a dozen plus – so the pieces could be used together or separately during play – for use both indoor and out, he continued.  Also, the system must be affordable, an alternative to expensive, traditional playground equipment.”  

“We listen closely to educators thoughts – their ideas have always helped fuel our product development – teachers know how to teach and develop our children.  Educators always have the best ideas – we listen!  we learn!  then we create!,” says Krishock.

This past March BRIGHT DAY proudly staged a multi-country launch of its BIG BLOCK PLAY PARK – in the USA at a preschool in San Antonio, Texas.  In all locations the new Active Play System became an instant smash hit.  

Kids comments included:

“best day ever!”

“is this ours – everyday?”

“let’s not stop!”

“look how far I’m jumping!” 

And a consistent comment heard by teachers:

“this is incredible!”

Teachers commented on the fun and laughter, the action and energy, the engagement and participation, the cooperation and collaboration, the bravery and confidence – and more.

The BIG BLOCK PLAY PARK is made up of 12 individual BIG pieces – giant tubes, and tunnels, and wheels, and climbers, balancers, and launch platforms – all designed specifically to generate action and engagement – each PLAY PARK can occupy 20 to 25 children at once.  Schools or play centers can purchase the entire system – or the individual pieces.  The PLAY PARK also pairs nicely with BRIGHT DAY Big or Medium Blocks.  The system works well outdoors when the weather is favorable, and it works equally well indoors.  

“We love it when creative ideas become actual play products and are loved by children.  BRIGHT DAY BIG BLOCKS is driven by a child-directed play, theme, and project based approach to learning.  Everything we do every day focuses on getting children playing and playing more.  We firmly believe play is the best way for children to learn,” says David Krishock.

See more PLAY PARK pictures in our BRIGHT DAY BIG BLOCKS Photo Gallery – just follow this link to see the joy of children at play: brightdaybigblocks.com/photo-gallery/

For anyone interested in the new BRIGHT DAY BIG BLOCK PLAY PARK – or any of our innovative Big Block play products visit our website at: https://brightdaybigblocks.com or give us a call, at our Los Angeles headquarters +1-818-914-6541.

BRIGHT DAY SAYS “NO THANK YOU” TO SHARK TANK

Everyone loves the American television program Shark Tank. Shark Tank airs every Friday night in the United States, attracting over 5 million weekly viewers. Shark Tank is a phenomenon, also attracting 40,000 entrepreneurs annually who apply to be contestants on the show. Contestants present their idea, product or company to a panel of celebrity investors, nicknamed “sharks” who then decide if they want to invest and become part-owners of these small businesses – all with an eye on growing sales, growing profits, and creating riches.

So, when Bright Day Big Blocks received a call encouraging its participation in Season 15 of Shark Tank it was flattering.  It seems the company mission, its innovative product, its fun brand, business success and founder popularity – were forces that possibly attracted Shark Tank to Bright Day.

“Great to be recognized – we must be doing some things well, says David Krishock, Bright Day Co-Founder.  Bright Day is driven by play for children, and establishing play-based learning in schools.  

Our fantastic, popular, play changing Big Blocks provide schools and play centers the perfect product to enable cognitive and physical development for youngsters.  

All dollars we generate are returned to the company to create awareness, to developed innovative new products, or given to Bright Day Foundation – our 501c3 charitable organization to help underserved schools.   

We greatly respect Shark Tank, it is thrilling Hollywood-style entertainment.  The program encourages entrepreneurs to dream big – which is fantastic.  For some businesses partnering with Shark Tank might be right, a perfect fit – but it’s not for Bright Day.  At Bright Day we never think about outside investors, about exploding profits, or making everyone rich.”

Krishock continues, “At Bright Day we answer to one community and one community only – we answer to educators, to parents, and to children.  We know we are doing a great job if we can help get more children playing every day.  Our Big Blocks work to make that happen – and we will work to make our Big Blocks the best product at the best price to expand accessibility to our community worldwide.”

Krishock concludes, “Thank you Shark Tank, we deeply appreciate your invitation.  No to competing on your program – but yes to watching as often as possible, as millions do.”

Interested in learning more about Bright Day LLC, Bright Day Big Blocks, Bright Day Foundation – a 501c3 charitable organization?  Please contact us via email at [email protected] or by phone at +1-818-914-6541

BRIGHT DAY LAYS PLANS FOR A NEW TELEVISION SERIES

With a Mission of Promoting Play and Play-based Learning Bright Day is Expanding its Education Footprint

Bright Day LLC and its operating entities Bright Day Big Blocks and not-for-profit Bright Day Foundation believes the world wants to watch children express their amazing creative and collaboration skills in a new television series called BLOCK PARTY ™.

What do you get when you blend 9 children 6 years and under – in an over 10,000 square foot indoor and outdoor play space – with thousands of build-able loose parts like blocks, and wood, fabric, and PVC pipe, and sand, and more?  “I’ll tell you what you get says Laurel Tucker, show creator and company co-founder – “you get a little bit of chaos and a lot of creativity and joy”.

Each program is divided into 6 equal segments – challenge, design, collect, build, present, and recognize.  A theme is chosen from which the children can create, the children then design their inspiration, then collect their build-able loose parts, and then the 3 teams of 3 children begin to build their designs – once their masterpieces are complete they present them to a live audience and are recognized and rewarded for their accomplishments.

“In developing our BLOCK PARTY series we spoke to a lot of educators – and watched a lot of TV – we witnessed the love and camaraderie of the GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF, starring Paul Hollywood – as well as the creativity and spectacle of PROJECT RUNWAY, staring Heidi Klum.  We were highly inspired by both”, says Tucker.

An inaugural partner in BLOCK PARTY is kidSTREAM, a Los Angeles area Children’s Museum.  kidSTREAM not only provides the physical facility for the USA production – but its community provides the shows participants and audience.  Michael Shanklin, kidSTREAM Executive Director is dedicated to promoting play, excited about the series, and about bringing the show to his museum.  Shanklin says, “kidSTREAM is thrilled to work with Bright Day Big Blocks and Bright Day Foundation to bring the important work of play to the forefront.  Our children need play now more than ever after a devastating time of isolation.  The creativity and collaboration that BLOCK PARTY will bring is just the thing our children need to begin the critical healing process.  kidSTREAM is honored to be the USA host for national productions of the show and the children we serve are going to be real winners”.

At this time BLOCK PARTY also has television series production partners in both Japan and South Korea.  “In Japan our production partner has plans to stage live, public BLOCK PARTY themed events in their playgrounds nationwide,” says Tucker.

Tucker concludes by saying, “our goal is urgent – we must create awareness and advocacy for more play.  BLOCK PARTY is part of the solution – it will be a loud voice, each program will be a constant reminder to a mass audience of parents in the USA and hopefully worldwide.”

On a related note she says, “we are finishing production on our global documentary film project – PLAY IS THE WAY ™.  This film is a fact based proof-source demonstrating play is the best way for children to develop, learn and grow.” Please visit our documentary film website at www.playistheway.film to learn more.

For more information on Bright Day LLC, Bright Day Foundation, Bright Day Big Blocks, Bright Day Play-based Curriculum, Bright Day Block Party, and Play Is The Way, a film documentary – or just to connect with thoughts or questions please call 01 818 914 6541 or email [email protected]

“OUR BEST PRICE PROMISE HELPS GET OUR MAGICAL BLOCKS IN THE HANDS OF YOUR AMAZING CHILDREN!”

 The words of Co-Founder, David Krishock

Just over a decade ago we launched a program called GIFT OF PLAY! which in part promises every school and organization interested in our big blocks the best price possible – and that’s 100% guaranteed!

And since the launch of GIFT OF PLAY! we have successfully satisfied thousands of educators and millions of children worldwide.

 Our GIFT OF PLAY! promise is our guarantee to provide the highest quality in ideas and design, in materials and manufacture, in durability, in safety.  It’s our guarantee to provide the lowest price on our Big Blocks, Medium Blocks, custom play spaces – all we offer! Our product quality is exceptional and our prices are 40% lower than our competitor – on every comparable product, each and every day!

“YOUR CHILDREN’S PLAY IS SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN OUR COMPANY PROFIT – LOWER PRICES MEANS GREATER ACCESS OF OUR BLOCKS TO COMMUNITIES + KIDS!”

Those are the words of Co-Founder, Laurel Tucker 

Providing all communities and kids greater access to our big block idea is JOB 1 at Bright Day Big Blocks.  We increase the availability of our blocks by having lower prices, by making our blocks more affordable.  Price matters, and our prices are the best!

 Big Blocks have proved to be a big idea – big foam, kid-sized shapes that children stack, connect and channel balls through – children engage, they are magically attracted to our big blocks and build whatever they dream.  And Big Blocks work! – they inspire creativity and imagination – communication and collaboration – critical thinking and problem solving – they build confidence and self –assuredness  – so much more.  Our blocks help educations help their kids PLAY + LEARN! Laurel Tucker encourages everyone to always call and speak to us – at (01) 818 914 6541 – we are here 7 days a week, around the clock to help – we service the world from our Los Angeles, CA, USA headquarters. We want to work with everyone to provide the best big blocks at the best prices – we promise to work hard to get your community what you want and need for your children.

Our GIFT OF PLAY! Program is not just a collection of words – it’s our PROMISE to you!

Contact Bright Day Big Blocks by emailing [email protected] or by calling (in the USA) 818 914 6541.  Everyday Bright Day Big Blocks helps transform children’s minds, bodies, and spirits through the power of creative PLAY!

SINCE IT’S LAUNCH IN 2020 THOUSANDS OF TEACHERS + CHILDREN HAVE PLAYED + LEARNED WITH OUR BRIGHT DAY CLASSROOM CURRICULUM

“There are millions of ideas out there – and thousands are likely good ideas.  But, the best ideas are those that get exposed to folks, are utilized, and actually work – really work!”  These are the words of David Krishock, Co-Founder here at Bright Day.  He was referring to the development, use and success of the BRIGHT DAY PLAY BASED CURRICULUM.

EVERY IDEA HAS A BEGINNING!

Bright Day began creating its curriculum late in 2018, with members of their global Advisory Group.

There are numerous styles of play-based curriculum available.  A major goal of Bright Day was to make it easy to understand, easy to implement for teachers with children, and very easy to explain to children’s parents.

Of course, the philosophy behind the curriculum was and continues to be:

•  to be child-directed – children have control over the content, choosing the themes and projects used to teach them
• to be hands on – exploring, observing, asking questions
• to be collaborative – child to child and child to teacher
• to allow for total child self-expression – don’t hold back, never hold back

This play-based learning model allows for a continuous and building learning process – as well as instilling in children a love for learning.

IT’S TAKING HOLD – AND ITS WORKING!

We know our curriculum downloads are significant, we get teacher feedback and answer teacher questions each week – and we hear our curriculum is easy to implement and is working!  It’s great to know that the curriculum is taking hold, says David Krishock.  He continues, “there is a difference between learning through open-ended play, and taking play into the classroom – using themes and projects to create learning environments.  It all works and it’s all critically important. We are so proud to be helping educators build todays Modern Classroom ™ for early learners.

HOW CAN YOU ENGAGE?

Gaining access to the Bright Day Play-Based Curriculum is easy.  Bright Day Big Blocks and its not-for-profit charitable organization Bright Day Foundation makes this learning tool available to the public at no cost.  Simply follow this link to the curriculum: www.brightdaybigblocks.com/classroom-curriculum/

David Krishock encourages teachers to bring play-based learning, and possibly the Bright Day version to their school, classroom, and their students.  “You will not be disappointed, he says, initially the work can be challanging for the classroom teachers because they have to curate lesson around the themes and projects preferred by the children, but once the system is in place and operating the child engagement and the learning takes off.

If you would like to learn more about Bright Day Play-Based Classroom Curriculum – or about Bright Day Foundation or Bright Day Big Blocks you can email us at [email protected] and phone us at 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, child directed 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 Big Blocks can be found around the world, in schools, playgrounds, libraries, hospitals, airports, restaurants, hotels and resorts, public parks, camps and anywhere you find children playing.  Bright Day Big Blocks is transforming children’s lives through play – building stronger minds and bodies, and enabling a brighter future for our kids.

NEW ROCK + ROLLER!

DEVELOPS BOTH BRAIN + BODY!

Our second new product launch of 2022, and likely most significant, is our new ROCK + ROLLER!

Our ROCK + ROLLER is a 10-piece block kit, featuring two supersized half-circle BIG BLOCKS that when combined form a giant wheel.  Obviously, children play with this in a number of ways – but, primarily they hop into the wheel and ROLL, or use either half of the wheel and ROCK.  In testing the children also climb, they spin, and when used with our Big Blocks they stack, connect – and more.

BRIGHT DAY has contributing education-based product design professionals from all over the world.  And this new product was a collaboration between our partner BorneLund of Japan (#1 provider of learning-based tools and toys in Japan) and Bright Day Big Blocks Co-Founder Laurel Tucker from our Los Angeles, California headquarters.

In Japan companies that promote play seem to design and provide children with more items enabling physical, active play.  In Japan stimulating the body is equally as important as stimulating the brain.  This in part inspired Laurel Tucker to collaborate to create ROCK + ROLLER!  Laurel Tucker says, “as we all know, children just love to play – to release and express – and they love to run as fast as they can as much as they love to solve puzzles – so the creation of our new ROCK + ROLLER! Is meant to stretch that body and stretch that brain – all the more FUN, right?”

She continues, “we love to say – MOVE and exercise your body – all the strength, stamina, balance, dexterity, coordination building – and DREAM and exercise your brain – all the creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, confidence building – and so much more.”

Like all of our BRIGHT DAY products – the ROCK + ROLLER! is made with highly durable, but extremely soft and safe EVA foam.  The big foam blocks two main pieces in the kit are a big blue block, and a big green block – coincidentally, two of the world’s favorite colors.

ROCK + ROLLER was launched on October 1st, just in time for back-to-school and all the learning opportunities made available as the children and teachers get back together.  ROCK + ROLLER! offers yet another tool in that learning toolbox.

For more information on Bright Day Big Blocks please Contact Us at +1-818-914-6541 or [email protected].  “Please contact us – we are always available to help you help your children Play + Learn”, concludes Laurel Tucker.

A focus at Bright Day Big Blocks is to serve educators needs for play-based learning tools. Designing and introducing new products for our global community is a top priority.

“We are happy to launch our new Bright Day MIX Blocks,” says Co-Founder, David Krishock. “The idea of MIX is pretty simple.  We combined blocks in the world’s two favorite colors – green and blue.  And, combined blocks in our customers two favorite sizes – BIG and MEDIUM. “Our design group has really optimized their idea, now with the perfect sizes, shapes, and colors.”

The MIX is a 70-piece kit of blocks that promises to give children that magical BIG Block experience. The Block kit is perfect for tighter play spaces – like the smaller daycare center or for use at home.  The MIX will be featured exclusively in our online shop.

The MIX Blocks already have fans, like the YMCA West in Green Bay Wisconsin who says, “What a GIANT HIT with the children” as well as saying “Parents have stopped by the office telling us how much their kids enjoy playing with the new blocks”  Thank you YMCA for those kind words!

You can place your MIX Block order online beginning this October at: https://brightdaybigblocks.com/shop/

And for the next 90 days, orders will also be taken by calling our office at 818-914-6541 or by emailing us at [email protected]

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, child directed 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 Big Blocks can be found around the world, in schools, playgrounds, libraries, hospitals, airports, restaurants, hotels and resorts, public parks, camps and anywhere you find children playing.  Bright Day Big Blocks is transforming children’s lives through play – building stronger minds and bodies, and enabling a brighter future for our kids.

YMCA GREEN BAY WEST IS OUR 2022

SUBMIT 2 WIN BIG BLOCK WINNER!

“Thank you Bright Day Big Blocks for the opportunity to receive this amazing gift.  Our families and children are going to be ecstatic.”

~ Heidi Hernandez, Director of Member Services

Each year a lucky winner is drawn from the big blue block storage caddy Bright Day keeps in its office.  This past year there were over a thousand entries.  And the lucky winner for 2022 was the YMCA, and more specifically the West Side Y of Greater Green Bay Wisconsin.  Hooray + Congratulations!

Bright Day Big Blocks is happy to share its Big Blocks with the community of Green Bay.  And this year they made this annual gift even more special by giving the Y its newest product – Bright Day Mix Block kit.  The new Mix Block kit combines big and medium blocks, their customer’s two favorite sizes, with green and blue blocks, the world’s two favorite colors – now that’s a great MIX!

Bright Day shipped the YMCA Green Bay West 210 pieces, enough for about 25 children at a time to stack, connect, and channel balls through the blocks – igniting both brains and bodies through play.  The Y has committed to sending play pictures which Bright Day promises to share on their social media sites.

Laurel Tucker, Bright Day Big Blocks Co-Founder says, “SUBMIT 2 WIN! is just our favorite program of the year – it’s where we share our favorite product, our Big Blocks with our favorite people – those that join our community by simply completing a contact form on our website”.

She continues, “I encourage everyone to join our community and give your organization a chance to win SUBMIT 2 WIN!  We have already begun collecting entries for 2023 – and like the YMCA, you can win too,”

To enter SUBMIT 2 WIN! 2023 please visit the Contact section of the Bright Day Big Blocks website.  Enter today!  To learn more about our products, prices and play-based benefits give Bright Day a call at 818 914 6541.

The Bright Day Foundation tribute to play-based learning, the film documentary titled PLAY IS THE WAY! is back in production after a 2-year pandemic-induced hiatus.

“Exactly two years ago April, we were packed up and heading to Japan, after successfully filming here in the USA, in New York and San Francisco, when everything – EVERYTHING – came to a screeching halt, ” says David Krishock, Executive Director of Bright Day Foundation.  He continued, “we were eager to film with our international partners in Europe, Asia, and the USA so we could continue to assemble our film and tell our story – a revolutionary story that must be told to educators and parents worldwide – that quite possibly play is the best way for our children to learn.”

Children possess a natural curiosity and have an innate desire to learn.  Also, children love to play.  And, children individually have preferences for how they play.  Combine these three elements and a much more robust, much more effective child learning and development paradigm is formed.  It’s a child-centered, child-directed method of teaching and learning.

“Our film visits best practice centers worldwide to tell our story”, says David Krishock, “we take educators and parents to places never before seen, to classrooms and play spaces that provide real-life examples of play-based learning – environments that underscore how play-based learning works, and these examples help illustrate why it is so effective.  We are very fortunate to be partnering with a group of experts to help tell our story.”

The revised schedule has the Bright Day film production crew visiting England and Denmark in September, Japan and South Korea in October, and possibly Australia and New Zealand during that same period.

For more information on Bright Day Foundation, the PLAY IS THE WAY! film documentary, and other Foundation initiatives – or our Bright Day Big Blocks please call +01-818-914-6541 or email [email protected].

About Bright Day – conceived in 1988, Bright Day was created to help children learn.

Bright Day Big Blocks was inspired by the power of super-big, kid-sized, foam building blocks.  Children stack, connect and become so deeply engaged they learn as they play.  Benefits to children include unlocking their natural curiosity – building creativity and use of imagination, problem-solving and critical thinking, communication and collaboration, building confidence and self-esteem – advancing cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development.  Big Blocks are a superb method of demonstrating the advantages of learning through play.

Bright Day Foundation was also created as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that provides our Big Blocks to under-resourced schools country-wide.

Bright Day is a global tribute to the transformational powers of play-based learning.

BRIGHT DAY ANNOUNCES DONATION TO SAVE THE CHILDREN!

Bright Day Foundation announces it will donate to the SAVE THE CHILDREN Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund.

The purpose of Bright Day Foundation is to donate its life-changing learning tools, Big Blocks, to poverty-stricken schools across the USA.

However, earlier this month, Laurel Tucker, Co-Founder of Bright Day Big Blocks, and its charitable entity Bright Day Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit announced that during the month of March 2022 Bright Day Foundation will redirect its giving efforts by donating a portion of Bright Day Big Blocks March 2022 proceeds to SAVE THE CHILDREN.

Laurel Tucker says, “We know the frightening news we hear and the pictures we see each day do not come close to capturing the scale of the tragedy the Ukrainian families are experiencing at this very moment.  It is up to those that can help, to help, making every attempt to keep the families and children as safe as possible during this horrific period.  We vow to do our part, as much as we can, by redirecting our giving toward SAVE THE CHILDREN and their Ukrainian Relief Fund.”

SAVE THE CHILDREN believes every child deserves the opportunity to learn and be protected from harm.

They report at this very moment there are 8 million Ukrainian children in grave physical and emotional danger.  SAVE THE CHILDREN works in the hardest to reach places, where it’s toughest to be a child – and is delivering food, clothing, organizing shelter for families – and more.

If you would like to know more about the work of SAVE THE CHILDREN and their Ukrainian Crisis Relief Fund visit their website at www.savethechildren.org

If you would like to connect with Bright Day Big Blocks + Bright Day Foundation email  [email protected] – or call 818-914-6541.