Play Benefits Mental Health in Children
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and a great time to learn and understand how play benefits mental health in everyone, especially children. Maintaining good mental health is important to your overall well-being. What better way…
How the Kids on the Go Card Game Set Saved Family Time
Written By: Guest Blogger, Corrine Stein In our family of five, we find that our kids’ age gaps can be challenging to say the least. We are dealing with a three-year-old who takes most of our…
Building a Family Culture of Fun
Written by: Elena Epstein, director of the NAPPA Awards– Playing to Learn Watching a child build a fort with blocks or a whole imaginary world with sand buckets at the beach is a study in concentration…
The Importance of Social Play
Social Play, Skills, and Development Make time for play! Playing and learning with games is not only fun, but it can also help children develop essential social competence that will benefit them throughout life. Children need…
Play it Forward Campaign Donates to 80 Non-profit Organizations
What is Play it Forward? SimplyFun’s annual ‘Play it Forward’ campaign takes place every February. It’s a month long special opportunity for game party hosts to donate a pack of games to local, non-profit organizations as…
Road Trip Activities: 7 Awesome Car Games to Play with Kids
Written by: Alexandra Fung, co-founder and CEO of Upparent– Whether you’ve chosen to drive to your next family vacation or are embracing the journey as part of an epic family road trip, a little preparation goes a…