Dreamaplay
Update 2021: All our kid’s stuff has a new home. Please visit our new website and learn how to turn dreams into reality using our simple 3-step formula 1) Dream It! 2) Map It! 3) Play It!! Dreamaplay.com is full of free downloadable and resources for kids, parents, teachers, homeschoolers and health care professionals.
A 3-part worksheet to help you get unstuck. This is an exercise to help you overcome obstacles and achieve your dream. Can you get from one side to the other using either logic or emotions?
You can visit Mars right from your own home or backyard in more ways than one. Yes! Seriously.
Because we believe everything is an adventure, and all good adventures start with a dream, in 2018, we published our evidence-based workbook Dream It! and matching website Dreamaplay to teach kids (and adults) how to dream and how to turn those dreams into reality using our easy 3-step formula: 1) Dream it! 2) Map it! 3) Play it!
Below we highlight some more projects that coincided with our Make-A-Book Project. It was a busy year. Many students thought I was an official teacher and some of the teachers thought I was an employee.
Finally, the best part of the whole project — the book celebration. We were honored to have hundreds of community members attend and support both the book and the monarch butterfly.
Like many species on our planet, monarch butterflies face many challenges. The population has shrunk dramatically, and their great migration has nearly collapsed more than once. Here is how you can help.
This is another one of my favorite all-time photographs. Unlike the past three photographs where I was standing on the roof of the school, this is photographed using a drone. It took hours of preparation and was called off several times. Read more about how I made this photos.
There has been a lot of progress happening with the monarch butterfly book and all the related projects. Here are a few highlights, including the mosaic wall and glow show.
The schedule of classroom activities and upcoming celebration for the Monarch Butterfly Book.
How I sort illustrations for the book. After working with the elementary students for a week in the classroom (26 classes) as the author-in-residence, I get over 500 drawings to choose from.
How I run the character creation contest for the new butterfly book.
Here is an easy backyard adventure that I have done 3 times already. You can easily spot the International Space Station flying overhead. It looks a lot like a fast airplane except that's a lot higher and traveling thousands of miles an hour.