A project of The Stay Network

Stay Playful Project

Helping children and families make room for healthy play, imagination, and the simple joys of childhood, without rushing kids to grow up too quickly.

  • A Stay Network project
  • West Bend, Wisconsin
  • Healthy play
  • Imagination
  • Creativity
  • Family connection
  • Simple childhood joys

What it is about

Making room for play, imagination, creativity, and childhood joy.

Stay Playful Project encourages children, families, and community groups to make room for play, imagination, creativity, and the simple joys of childhood. For children, staying playful means having opportunities to enjoy age-appropriate play, curiosity, silliness, creativity, and meaningful time with others without being rushed to grow up too quickly.

Why play matters

Play is more than entertainment.

Play is not only entertainment. It can support learning, creativity, family connection, social connection, and emotional well-being. Stay Playful Project uses giveaways, playful resources, digital play tools, and community partnerships to advance The Stay Network’s charitable and educational mission.

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.

Stacks of boxed puzzles prepared for local donation through the Stay Playful Project
Puzzles being prepared for donation through Stay Playful Project.

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.
Contact Us About Puzzle Donations

Planned directions

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

As the project grows, the focus remains the same: helping children and families make room for healthy, age-appropriate play, imagination, creativity, and connection.

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 about Stay Playful Fundraisers

Planned

Family-Friendly Play Events

As Stay Playful Project grows, we hope to create and support family-friendly play events that give children and families more room for healthy play, imagination, creativity, connection, and the simple joys of childhood.

These events may include puzzle tables, game days, creative activity stations, family play nights, seasonal activities, parent-child play opportunities, and simple community gatherings designed to be welcoming, affordable, family-friendly, and age-appropriate.

Whether hosted directly by Stay Playful Project or offered in partnership with schools, libraries, churches, youth groups, nonprofits, shelters, and other community partners, these events would further our mission of helping children and families enjoy positive play without rushing kids to grow up too quickly.

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 children and families make room for healthy play, imagination, creativity, and simple childhood joy.

Get connected

Interested in Stay Playful Project?

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