Playing Well For Family
Building Stronger Families Together
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At home, play is fun — and it’s also essential. Partners strengthen bonds, parents and children grow closer, and across generations it becomes a shared language that keeps families connected.
For children, play builds confidence, sparks creativity, supports resilience, and helps ease stress.
For parents, it restores energy, relieves pressure, and opens space to more deeply engage and be present.
It’s not about how long you play — it’s about weaving play in consistently. Play can happen on the go, as part of a morning routine, or whenever families find a moment together. There is always time to play.
With PLAYSTRUCK, families have transformative tools that can:
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Ease stress with playful resets woven into everyday life
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Build confidence and independence through solo play
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Create rhythms that bring generations together every day
Play together. Play solo. Both matter — and both shape the well-being of family life.
The Power of Playing Well at Home
Across households of every kind, research shows that consistent family play strengthens bonds, lowers stress, and supports lifelong resilience.
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67% of parents said that playing together as a family “improves connection.”
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Kids report feeling less stressed and more confident when they have regular opportunities for creative play.
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Families who establish daily play rituals — even short ones — report stronger communication and greater ability to handle challenges together.
Play Builds Bonds
Bringing play-based tools to those who need it most: therapists, caregivers, program organizers, and community leaders. These products, experiences, and workshops are practical, fun, and transformative.
Products For Families
Tools like The Doodle Challenge™ turn everyday moments into hilarious chances to reset, recharge, and reconnect. From quick bursts of solo play to shared family time, PLAYSTRUCK products help parents, kids, and grandparents weave play into the flow of daily life.
The Doodle Challenge
(All Ages)
Hilarious. Award-Winning. For Every Family.
The Doodle Challenge™ helps families laugh together, ease stress, and discover new ways to connect. Recognized with the Parent and Teacher Choice Award by HowtoLearn.com, it’s designed to fit real life — at home, in the car, on a plane, or even on date night.
And the prompts aren’t random. They’re science-backed, researched, and intentionally designed to spark creativity, reduce stress, and strengthen family well-being.
Why families love it:
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Quick prompts that connect in minutes
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Flexible for short resets or longer sessions
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Works for all ages — no art skills needed
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Science-backed design for real impact
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Built-in stress relief, playful or calm
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From a play-filed start to the morning to a mindful evening routine, The Doodle Challenge™ helps families bring play into everyday life.
3 Ways Families Can Play Well Together
Right Now
Flip the Routine.
Turn everyday moments into playful ones. Make dinner clean-up a race, doodle your grocery list, or turn a walk into a “pattern hunt.” When routine flips, families see the ordinary in new ways.
Share the Lead.
Turn everyday moments into playful ones. Make dinner clean-up a race, doodle your grocery list, or turn a walk into a “pattern hunt.” When routine flips, families see the ordinary in new ways.
Pause Together.
Turn everyday moments into playful ones. Make dinner clean-up a race, doodle your grocery list, or turn a walk into a “pattern hunt.” When routine flips, families see the ordinary in new ways.
Big Ideas
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