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.

Feel Your Feelings talking points

Feel Your Feeling talking points

Feel Your Feelings is a fun book to read, act out, and enjoy. It helps us accept that feeling our feelings is okay and that every emotion has a benefit. This book is a great way to start a larger conversation about emotions with children. To help, we created these questions and activities.
Bridge the gap. An illustration of a bicyclist trying to get over a pit filled, and an illustration of a man stranded on an island trying to get pot of gold.

Bridge the gap

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?
Bingo Scavenger Hunt Backyard Edition. Two cards, plus a blank grid and spare parts to make your own custom bingo board

Bingo scavenger hunt — backyard edition

Bingo Scavenger Hunt: Backyard Edition. Play at home or with your neighbor. You'll be surprised at everything you discover: plants, animals, bugs, rocks, stars and more.
Boarding Pass for NASA's Mars 2020 mission with the planet Mars in the background

Visit Mars from your backyard

You can visit Mars right from your own home or backyard in more ways than one. Yes! Seriously.
Dream It! Facilitators guide.

Dream It! Facilitator’s guide

The free, evidence-based SEL curriculum and facilitator’s guide is perfect for teachers, homeschoolers and health care professionals. Students will learn how to harness their passion and set life goals with our evidence-based workbook Dream It!
The Dream Team wearing the 3 hats of turning dreams into reality: dream it, map it, play it.

Our new kid-friendly website

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!
International Space Station over Earth the pale blue dot.

Spot the International Space Station

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.
The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover artist's rendition of the rover on the red, sandy Mars surface investigating rocks.

Imagine standing on Mars

Have you ever imagined what it would be like to stand on Mars? Now you don't have to thanks to this month's featured Argonaut, the Curiosity Rover. Stand on Mars in this virtual reality panoramic image.
Illustration of the Argo and the Argonauts sailing into the sunset.

The story of Jason and the Argonauts for kids

The myth of Jason and the Argonauts and the quest for the Golden Fleece for kids with fun illustrations. Based on one of the first heroic adventures ever told.
Kenyan school children jump for joy when they got their Falling Uphill books.

Falling Uphill in Kenya

The children's edition of Falling Uphill arrives in Kenya.
Before and after picture of Music Hall in Cincinnati. The after picture turns Music Hall into a colorful background for a butterfly.

Lumenocity

Cincinnati's Lumenocity is a classical music performance by the symphony, which uses lasers to illuminate the Music Hall building with animations.
The "How's it going" Dream Workshop station with facilitators and children.

The Dream Workshop pilot program

We tested the Dream Playbook in over a dozen schools. We called it our "Dream Workshop" but it was so much fun that the students called it "The Dream Club."