(Play with me autism foundation Inc. is an Internal Revenue Code 501(3)(c) organization, Tax ID 86-2712302)
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Past Events
Holiday Party
Diwali event
Father’s day event
Easter Event
Holiday Party
On Saturday, October 29th, Play-With-Me held its Halloween celebration at Haunted min-Golf. Kids and young adults came dressed up in their favorite Halloween costumes to enjoy a game of golf with their friends, and shared yummy treats. It was a proud moment again for our young adults at MakeWithMe to sponsor this event.
Play-With-me Autism foundation has added one more Holiday to it’s list to celebrate. Many thanks to Bansari Dance , Bhoomi, and Gauri for teaching Garba, Daniya, and Timali so patiently to our young adults. They danced the night away at the community events this season 2 times already, and had a blast! Many thanks to Umiyadham and Roselle park for their hospitality, and to the Moms who are the divine power in our young adults lives!! On Vijaya-Dashmi(victory on the tenth day of Navratri), Play-With-Me team met with Edison’s Mayor, Sam Joshi, his Chief of staff, and Project manager for Special needs project to discuss how we can collaborate going forward to make it a more inclusive community for our Special young adults.
On Sunday, September 11th, Play-With-Me held its End-of-Summer picnic to celebrate summer, which was filled with in-person activities such as hiking, cooking, playing mini-golf, and visiting trampoline park, beaches and parks. Families enjoyed spending time with each other with good food, fun, and chit-chat! The rain gave the young adults a chance to practice flexible thinking when the venue was changed from an park to an indoor setting, and they all waited patiently for a respite from rain to go out to the park. They talked about significance of 9/11 and sang patriotic songs, while also watching the US Open Final. There was a cake cutting to celebrate 5 years of the Organization and how far it has come! Many thanks to all parents who worked hard to make it a success, and to MakeWithMe.org for sponsoring it!!
Our young adults enjoyed golf outing on Friendship day!!
Play-With-Me held its Father’s Day picnic and golf outing at Colonial Park.
There was food, games, and group songs for Dads.
Teacher Appreciation day was filled with gratitude as Make-With-Me team prepared presents for teachers. Our young adults printed personalized messages on mugs, filled them with chocolates, wrote thank you notes, and packaged them.
Play-With-Me Easter egg hunt – so blessed to meet in person and everyone enjoyed Easter activities and spending time together!!
Play-With-Me Valentine’s Day Party was a virtual Party full of amazing individual and group performances by our talented kids and young adults.
During ‘Breakfast with Santa’ , our special kids/young adults enjoyed preparing breakfast, playing keyboard, clarinet, singing, visit by Santa, and hanging out together.
Play-with-me autism foundation celebrated Halloween last week of October with Halloween theme based games (Bingo, Madlibs, riddles, crossword, wordsearch, word chaining, origami ghosts etc. Then on Oct 30th, they all got together, dressed up in their favorite costumes, and enjoyed pumpkin painting, pumpkin carving, haunted house, halloween games, dancing and having fun with Friends together! Thanks to all the Parents and volunteers who worked hard to make this event a success!
On the occasion of Dussehra, Play-With-Me Kids/young adults performed a series of dances and group songs which they learned over Zoom during PWM classes. It was an amazing experience and opportunity for them to showcase their talent on the stage. Thanks to Indo-American Festivals Inc for the opportunity.
On Sunday, September 12th, Play-With-Me held its End of Summer picnic at Merrill Park. PWM families enjoyed spending time with each other with good food, fun, and games! Kids/young adults performed a series of dances and group songs which they learned over Zoom during PWM classes. There were lots of games such as musical chairs, volleyball, Soccer, bean bag throw, horse shoe toss, swings, slides etc! Many kids also gave an impromptu singing performance, which was followed by some cake cutting to celebrate how far the organization has come!
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Play-With-Me will be organizing a picnic in the Park(Merril Park) for families of special kids/young adults on Sunday, Sept 12th starting at Noon. This is a FREE event with games, food, music and more.. Pls fill up the sign up form by Sept 3rd. Looking forward to see you all (in-person). https://forms.gle/YBCVM7kVdrcWXfZf7
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July 2021 updates:
Thanks to all the Volunteers, our enrichment classes are continuing through the Summer whereby Kids/young adults are enjoying Art, Craft, Origami, Lego, science, banking skills, social skills, singing, dancing, exercising, etc. Below is the detailed schedule, and some of our kids/young adults creation!
Picnic 2021
Our kids/young adults had so much fun at the IACS picnic, at Merril Park, performing on the stage(singing, dancing) selling candles, and enjoying the yummy food. Many Thanks to all the organizers for such a successful event!
June 2021 Update
Father’s Day Walkathon
On Father’s day weekend, our families and friends of Play-With-Me gathered in person for a walk-a-thon at Edison High School, with people walking or running to the beats played by the DJ! There were fun dance and singing performances dedicated to Fathers, as well as a special visit from the Mayor of Edison,Thomas Lankey, Councilman Ajay Patil, Council woman Joyce Ship-Frreman, Woodrow school Principal Jennifer Blevins, Vice principal Renu Mendiratta, BOE member Biral Patel. Mayor presented us with a Proclamation to honor our organization. We were also able to sell many of our scented candles hand-made by our Young adults with differnet abilities! This was the first time so many kids, young adults, volunteers, teachers got to see each other for the 1st time since the Pandemic. Many thanks to all the organizers and volunteers for making this happen! Wishing everyone a Happy Father’s Day!!
In light of COVID 19 pandemic, we started remote classes and Activities for special needs children using Zoom network back in March 2020. The classes are still in Full swing and expanding rapidly. Below is the weekly schedule, Ad hoc events are announced to members.
All times are EST.
Please email playwithme.us@gmail.com if you are interested in these classes run on Zoom network.
Father’s Day Event 2021
Mother’s Day Event 2021
Mother’s day celebration – This was our 2nd virtual Mother’s day celebration. We started the evening with Prayers for all whose lives are impacted by COVID-19 pandemic, and then the magic started – with kids/young adults playing musical instruments, singing, dancing, and speeches. Here is a glimpse of this beautiful evening and the cards/present prepared by children/young adults for hard working Special Moms. Isha Foundation also arranged a special Yoga
session for us on Saturday morning!
EVENTS ORGANISED
Easter Event 2021
Our Easter/Spring Party on April 2nd was attended by over 25 families. The Kids and young adults put together an amazing performance, practicing for several hours on their individual pieces and group performances. Special Thanks to all the parents and Volunteer to make this event a success. Most of the attendees dressed up in BLUE for World Autism Awareness Day!
LEGO CLASSES
Our ‘Build with Blocks’ class is enjoyed by kids and young adults where they use the same set of building blocks to create wide variety of models – Heart and bear for Valentine’s Day, Flowers for Spring, Clover and Pot of gold for St Patrick day, Birthday cake and present for Birthdays etc.
Valentine’s Day Event 2021
Our kids put together an amazing Valentine’s Day show singing, dancing, playing musical instruments. We wish everyone a Happy Valentine’s Day!! Who ever thought we can have so much fun over Zoom!
Holiday Event 2020
Our kids put together an amazing Holiday show singing, dancing, playing musical instruments. We wish everyone Happy Holidays and look forward to seeing all in New year!!
Halloween 2020
We celebrated Halloween with Halloween theme based games (Bingo, Kahoot, Madlibs, charades, riddles etc), made Origami ghosts, baked cupcakes and decorated them, dressed up for the virtual party and modeled dance steps for their friends!!
Father’s Day 2020
We celebrated Father’s day with kids & young adults drawing Father’s day card, making marble drop with dads, baking banana nut muffins, and a dance party. Thanks to all Dads who work so hard with their Special kids and Young adults!
Mother’s Day 2020
ART AND CRAFT CLASSES
During our Art and Crafts class, kids and young adults are learning Art themed around Holidays, seasons, using various coloring tools – Crayons, color pencils, markers, water colors, acrylic, paint brush, cotton balls, ear buds, tooth brush etc.
ONLINE COOKING CLASSES
Our LIVE Cooking classes have become a big hit among our ‘Chefs in training’. Over past 1 year, Kids and young adults learnt to make Cuisine from different part s of the works. Please refer to our PWM Recipe section for easy to follow simple, step by step recipes. Stay tuned for more recipes.
ONLINE ORIGAMI CLASSES
ONLINE DANCE CLASSES
ONLINE YOGA CLASSES
ONLINE “OUT OF THE BOX” CLASSES
During our ‘Out of the Box’ class, kids learned to use packing boxes to make a house. It was amazing to see most of the kids were joined by their Dads during this class as building together creates a special bond.
EASTER – 2020
Our Easter activities (egg painting and egg hunt) were enjoyed by kids of different age groups. A great way to continue celebration!
ONLINE CLASSES – March 2020
Workout with family/friends is a great way to generalize several skills, stay fit, and spend quality time together.
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HOLIDAY PARTY 2019
Our ‘Breakfast with Santa’ event would not have been possible without all the help from our special Chefs and live entertainers. Thanks to everyone who made it possible and so much fun!
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VALENTINE PARTY – 2019
Our “Valentine’s day party” was a fun-filled event with lots of interesting activities for the entire family. Thanks to our ‘Chefs in making’ who came in super-early to make cupcakes, pastry puffs and setup for the party!
BREAKFAST WITH SANTA – DECEMBER 23, 2018
Our ‘Breakfast with Santa’ event would not have been possible without all the help from our ‘Chefs in the making’ and live music performers! Thanks to everyone who made this event so much fun!
COOKING 2018 – NOVEMBER 25, 2018
Hola Amigos,
During the ‘Play-With-Me’ cooking lesson, children learned to cook Mexican food: Tacos and Churos, by following a step by step recipe. They practiced multiple skills in a natural environment such as reading, sequencing, vocabulary, measuring, time, patience, various math skills, OT skills, following directions, cooperation etc.They cooked well together with great attention to task for over an hour, helped set the table, and enjoyed the meal together.
HALLOWEEN 2018
Rain couldn’t dampen the spirits of the kids who came to the Play-With-Me Autism Foundation Halloween party. There, special kids, their siblings, and their parents enjoyed painting pumpkins, a haunted room, and lots of fun activities. Big thanks to everyone who came and made this special event happen!
PLAY WITH ME BBQ 2018
A perfect finale to the beautiful summer – BBQ with live music by our students and volunteers.
Special thanks to Dads and Moms who practiced keyboard with their kids and assisted with our BBQ party !!!
PLAY WITH ME KEYBOARD LESSON 2 (AUGUST 12, 2018)
During the Play-with-me 2nd set of keyboard lessons, each child learned a different song. These children will be playing the song learned at a BBQ coming soon, a good opportunity for them to showcase their talent in front of an audience. Thanks to all the parents who worked hard with their children to practice at home. During the session, children also enjoyed fine and gross motor activities, and also practiced social skills with volunteers.
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PLAY WITH ME BEACH PARTY 2018 (AUGUST 5th)
‘Play-With-Me’ beach trip was great outing for the participating families. The smiles on everyone’s faces can attest to how fun this was. Kids practiced greetings, brief introduction, played duck-duck goose, built sand castle, played beach volleyball, paddle catch, ring toss, football, soccer, swimming, jumping on the waves, surfing, finding sea shells. Looking forward to the next event!
UPDATE ON GARDENING 2018 (July 25th, 2018)
Our participants in Gardening 2018 event have shared their fruits of labor in the the pictures below. Thanks to all for taking care of their plants.
FREE INTRODUCTORY KEYBOARD LESSONS 2018
July 21st, 2018 to July 22nd, 2018
During ‘Play-With-Me’ keyboard lessons, 22 special kids in the age group of 4-15yr learned to play a song on the keyboard.
While learning keyboard, kids also generalized their knowledge of colors, letters, numbers, matching, pattern, direction(left right), time-interval, hand-eye co-ordination, decoding, fine motor skills, turn-taking, eye contact, asking for help etc, and most important to enjoy and have fun!
Parents also learned the techniques that work for their child so they can practice with kids at home. Looking forward to reaching out to more families.
Thanks to all of the Parents and our neighborhood kids who volunteered to make this event a success!!
PAST EVENTS
GARDENING 2018 : JULY 7th, 2018
The “Play-With-Me” Gardening event 2018 was a fun and educational event for the kids and their families. We thank all parents who could take time to be with us. During the event, we learned about the life-cycle of a plant, planted flowers and tomato plants with a hope to give kids an opportunity to personalize their plant. Soon, the sunflower, bean, and cucumber seeds given to the kids will begin to grow above the surface, which means that they must be planted in the ground. No one will forget the fun we had, when children got distracted from watering the plant to watering each other. We hope to get some updates on these plants progress. Looking forward to our next event !!!!
PICNIC IN THE PARK : JUNE 9th, 2018
The “Play with Me” picnic in the park was great fun event for the kids and their families. Thanks to all who made it a memorable occasions. Looking forward to many more events to come.
Here are some pictures of the preparation
Pictures of the picnic
EASTER EVENT
AUTISM AWARENESS WALK
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