2025 POWER OF PLAY!

When: Sunday, March 23, 2025 11 am - 2 pm

Where: Gloucester High School Field House, 32 Leslie O. Johnson Road, Gloucester

Who: Gloucester families, friends and children of all ages. Power of Play is free to all, but donations are happily accepted!

What: A day of hands-on, low-tech play for all ages, hosted by Gloucester Education Foundation and run by a powerhouse team of community and student volunteers.

Power of Play centers around interactive family activities and is designed to be welcoming to a broad spectrum of ages, ability levels, and learning styles. It would take us all day to name all of the awesome activities at Power of Play, but here are a few: live band freeze dance, martial arts, a community fish mural, make-your-own sensory jars, giant box fort-building, touch and feel tables, an infant/toddler wiggle zone, and new this year: science activities all about the human body!

Why Play Matters:

• Play helps kids learn how to learn! Through play, kids hone their creative and critical thinking skills, figure out how to work together, and test their ideas.
• Play is something every child, everywhere in the world can do. It fuels curiosity, sparks creativity, and inspires a lifelong love of learning.
• Play is a universal language! Whether you speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian,Arabic, or use American Sign Language, play bridges communication gaps and gives us all a way to enjoy each other and work together.

Power of Play is hosted by the Gloucester Education Foundation and sponsored by Cape Ann Savings Bank (Lead Sponsor), Doug Kerr and Liisa Nogelo-Kerr (Lead Donors), Sawyer Free Library, Seashore Comfort Solutions, Medeiros General Construction Inc., Goldfish Swim School, and Dr. David Harrison Family Dentist.

Media Contact: Emily Siegel, emily@thinkthebest.org or 978-282-5550

Gloucester Education Foundation drives innovation, inspires creativity, expands student opportunities, and empowers educators to strengthen teaching and learning in the Gloucester Public Schools. Learn more at www.thinkthebest.org.