The Family Center for Creative Play TM Life Services System/Parent Information Resource Center

The Family Center for Creative

Play TM

Life Services System/Parent Information Resource Center

Boundless Play

Center for Creative Play™Play. Learn. Grow Together.

Family Center for Creative Play TM

Promoting child directed play with parents in attendance.

Take off your shoes and get ready to play!



Play

“Play is a child’s work and this is not a trivial pursuit”

- Alfred Adler



Play Decades of research has documented that play has a crucial role in the optimal growth, learning, and development of children from infancy through adolescence.


The Center for Creative Play will provide: a warm & welcoming place for children and families education & networking support to families enhance community participation



This developmentally rich environment is where

children & families with diverse abilities and backgrounds will…

Play, Learn and Grow Together…



• Inclusive, universally accessible

• Indoor family play facility (parent supervised)

• Fully engage all children in active & creative play

• Support play in all areas of development



Pittsburgh, PA One of a kind

Serves 50,000+ visitors per year

15,000 sq foot facility



Able To Play: A gift to Michigan

Challenge grant by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation

LSS was selected to construct the 1st Creative Play Center in the state of Michigan

All communities in Michigan are invited to participate in design


Holland, MI Opening Fall 2005

Will serve all of Western Michigan

Incorporate community flavor

Art, Music, Sensory areas

Community Meeting Rooms

Birthday Party Areas



Getting Started: Community Base

Business leaders Church leaders Elected officials Parents Educators Contractors Media Personalities Attorneys Financial Advisors Pediatricians Therapists AND YOU!


Design Criteria – CFCP

1.General Elements • Universally Accessible• Developmentally

Appropriate• Experiential Variety

2. Play Areas• Open Play Area• Pretend Play Area• Creative Arts Area• Sensory Area


Open Play Area: Infant/Parent Zone

Provides infants and parents the opportunity to safely explore play together.


Open Play Area: Hand Zone

Children play, explore and feel their world using their hands.


Open Play Area: Big Muscle Zone

Children can engage in large movement

activities.


Open Play Area: Quiet Zone

A place for children to rest, read and reflect on their play

experiences.


Sensory Area

Designed to provide calming

sensory experiences that

help children focus on learning

and play more effectively


Creative Arts Areas

Opportunities to explore various

creative art mediums

• Art

• Music

• Performing Arts


Pretend Play Area

Creative role-playing

opportunities for children…

Street of Pretend Play could include YOUR BUSINESS

NAME


Pretend Play Area Street of Pretend Play

A play storefront of your businessyour business where kids can pretend to be you

Your School Here

Your Business

Here


But, we need a helping hand…

This dream can not become a reality for the many children and their

families throughout West Michigan without

your assistance.



• Please make a donation today- Name a room or area- Purchase equipment- Honor your parents or someone special- Sponsor a playgroup- Be a cheerleader- Lend a hand

For more information on how you can help call us: (616) 396-7566 or email @ [email protected]

LSS is a 501c3 nonprofit organization (All donations are tax deductible)


Documents

The Family Center for Creative Play TM Life Services System/Parent Information Resource Center