Family Guide to Play

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Need a way to communicate about the importance of play to parents? Whether the parents you see are your customers, clients, or users of your program, this colorful six-panel brochure outlines the promise of play for children's healthy development. It opens into a 11x17 poster about play, suitable for the refrigerator, a child's room, your waiting room or classroom wall or a display in your store. To view the poster, click here.

Single copies of the Playing for Keeps Family Guide to Play are available by request. Send an e-mail to playingforkeeps@playingforkeeps.org to request a copy.

For multiple copies of the Guide to Play, visit our Play Store.

Not-for-profits interested in using the Guide to Play in their programs may contact Playing for Keeps at 312-222-0982 for more information about availability.

NEW!! Downloadable Playing for Keeps Family Play Kit! Click here for details.


Play for young children is not recreation activity,... It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity.... Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met.

--James L. Hymes, Jr., child development specialist, author


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