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…
Cool Math Games that Encourage Less Screen Time
Math gets a bad rap for being a difficult school subject. However, is math really to blame? Or is a lack of PLAY in math learning the real culprit? At SimplyFun, we believe PLAY is the…
Keeping Your Brainpower, Powerful!
The key to maintaining your brainpower as we grow older, particularly in today’s technology driven world has just one major action step and that is to USE IT! We have so many tools today that help…
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