A project of The Stay Network

Stay Playful Project™

Stay Playful Project is a project of The Stay Network created to encourage kids and families to make more room for fun, imagination, and meaningful play. The project supports toys, puzzles, games, hands-on activities, community giveaways, and thoughtfully designed kid-friendly digital experiences that promote curiosity, creativity, joy, and connection.

A Stay Network project
West Bend, Wisconsin
Fun first
Imaginative play
Toys and creativity
Family connection
Thoughtful digital experiences

Why play?

Play should be fun first — helping kids imagine, create, laugh, and stay young at heart.

Stay Playful Project is built around the belief that play matters — and that play should always feel fun. Children should have room to enjoy toys, pretend play, puzzles, games, building, creating, laughing, and imagining without feeling rushed to move away from childhood too quickly.

The project is not about rejecting technology. It is about encouraging better kinds of play — including hands-on activities and kid-appropriate digital experiences that are safe, thoughtful, enriching, and designed with children’s well-being in mind.

Current project

Puzzle Giveaway: playful products prepared for local donation.

Stay Playful Project™ is already putting its mission into action through product giveaways that help kids and families enjoy hands-on fun, imagination, and shared time together.

No-charge puzzle donations

Stay Playful Project™ is preparing puzzle donations for local organizations, programs, and giveaway opportunities where puzzles can support simple, screen-light fun for kids and families.

No charge for the products.
Local delivery may be available at no cost for qualifying nearby organizations or giveaway opportunities.
Good fits may include libraries, schools, churches, youth groups, family programs, shelters, community events, and other local groups serving children and families.

Planned directions

Growing through giveaways, fundraisers, and kid-friendly digital play.

Stay Playful Project™ is growing around one clear purpose: helping kids enjoy fun, imaginative, age-appropriate play without being rushed to grow up too fast.

Ongoing & ready

Product giveaways and fundraisers

Stay Playful Project™ is already working on product giveaways and is ready to offer fundraiser options built around playful, family-friendly products. These may include puzzles, kids’ activity items, notebooks, wall art, seasonal gifts, and other products featuring playful artwork such as dinosaurs, unicorns, animals, space themes, fantasy designs, colorful characters, and other kid-favorite ideas.

Giveaways can place playful resources with organizations that serve kids and families. Fundraisers can help schools, churches, youth groups, libraries, and other organizations raise support while offering products that fit the Stay Playful Project™ mission. Give-back amounts should be clearly listed before each campaign begins.

Learn more about Stay Playful Project™ fundraisers

Upcoming

Kid-Friendly Apps and Digital Play

A planned direction for Stay Playful Project™ is creating kid-friendly apps and digital play experiences that support fun, creativity, imagination, curiosity, or thoughtful engagement. These apps should be safe, age-appropriate, and designed without inappropriate content, harmful themes, excessive pressure, or manipulative features.

When kid-friendly apps are developed, Stay Playful Project™ plans to avoid ads whenever possible. Ads can be distracting, confusing, inappropriate, or stressful for children and parents, especially when kids accidentally tap them, are pulled away from the activity, or see content that does not match the family’s expectations.

When we are able to implement them, we also plan to include simple time-limit or parent-control features that help families set healthy boundaries. The goal is to make digital play easier for parents to manage, not harder.

Fundraiser products

Product examples now live on the fundraiser page.

Stay Playful Project™ may use puzzles, mugs, wall art, activity items, seasonal gifts, and other playful products as part of giveaways and fundraisers. The detailed product examples are kept on the fundraiser page so this project page can stay focused on the heart of the mission: helping kids stay playful, imaginative, and young at heart.

View Stay Playful Project™ Fundraiser Product Examples

Get connected

Interested in Stay Playful Project™?

Reach out if you are interested in puzzle donations, playful product fundraisers, partnership possibilities, volunteer interest, or future kid-friendly digital play ideas connected to Stay Playful Project™.

Contact The Stay Network View Stay Playful Project™ Fundraisers