A recent study found that kids 8-18 spend 6+ hours a day with electronic media - 45 hours a week!. "It's no secret that play is key to healthy child development," says Darell Hammond, CEO of KaBOOM!, a non-profit that encourages playtime and helps to build playgrounds. "Studies show that active kids are healthier, perform better in school, and learn better social skills than kids who are less inclined to play." KaBOOM! and many other other child-advocacy and health organizations including the American Heart Association advocate that kids play for at least an hour every day. KaBOOM! believes that unstructured play in particular helps make children happier, fitter, smarter, more socially adept and creative.
KaBOOM! is teaming up with local communities to host more than 1,000 free Play Days across the country September 18-26. These events celebrate kids and play with fun games and activities. KaBOOM! Play Days are also an opportunity for communities to come together to improve their local parks and playspaces with clean-ups, simple enhancement and construction projects.
Interested in taking part? There are a couple of ways you can participate:
- Sign up to host a Play Day in your community.
- Register for a Play Day already happening in your area.
Just hop on to www.kaboom.org/playday to learn more. It's fast, simple and fun. Happy Play Days!
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