PTPT Events and Calendar

Pre registration and payment is required or I can’t reserve the group trip.

Chocolate Etc Wyckoff – Tuesday August 11th 1pm make your own Chocolate Pizza make chocolate pieces and decorate your pizza also some candy from the store and bring it home with a diploma and a candy mold in a pizza box $20 per child we need a minimum of 10 children to qualify usually they need 12 but they are slow in the summer so they made a special exception for us.

Jenkinson’s Aquarium Point Pleasant – confirmed date of Sunday August 16th at 1pm for aquarium prices are 12 to adult $7 per person, children 11 and under $6 per person. The beach 12 to adult is $6 children 11 and under $1.50 children under 5 free. Ride Tickets 12 tickets for 12 rides is $12 3pm is seal feeding.

Keansburg Water Park - $22.95 per person for 2 hours of waterpark and unlimited rides. August 18th arrive at 9:45pm admission to waterpark at 10am and stay until 12pm then do lunch and then rides unlimited except Roller Coaster and Bumper Cars 3 rides on bumpers and 1 on roller coaster other rides unlimited. minimum 25

Ice Skating Floyd Hall with Jack the Jackal 12 to adult $5 and under 12 $4 rentals $4 for both parent and child August 7th 1:40 to 3:10 Minimum of 15 people

Mini Golf – Monster indoor mini Golf does not open till 12pm so we are going at 10am we pretty much have the place to ourselves though they won't turn someone away if they show up noone would know they are open because they don't open normally until 12pm we have private room until 11:30am so we can plan a small party as well I will bake and each person can contribute something this is going to be so much fun. Minimum of 25 people

10am to 11:30am $6 per child minimum of 25 children to attend. parents play for free there is a game area so bring some change lol and children get tickets to obtain prizes. this is a lot of fun wear white for a great look in the black lights. Monday July 27th

Rocking Horse - Sept don’t have date yet– 1 ½ hrs karate, grooming and riding $50 don’t have date or time yet and have to confirm that price is the same as last year. There is a drs physical that is required to attend this trip and I will have papers for this trip soon there is a lot to fill out to be able to go required by Rocking Horse not us.

Shooting Stars – Still waiting on date time price and if they will even do it. Just thought it would be a nice trip we will see if they will do it. They have not returned my call yet.

Little Gym –1 ½ hr in gym free play and then circle warm up group activity and moon beam $26 per child for 15 children Sunday 30th 1pm tentative date can’t reserve until we have 15 children date could change because they book up fast and we need to leave a deposit.

Water Park Lyndhurst – no charge 11am to 1pm August 3rd

Motorcycle Run

Born to be Wild is our first annual Motorcycle Run. We are doing this run to help ensure that our children have choices. Our dream of having a Motorcycle Run will be a reality on June 7th with a raindate of June 14th at the Orange Lantern 15 Firehouse Lane Paramus with a fully escorted ride to Bear Mountain and back. Registration is at 10am and riding at 12pm back for a blow out after party by 1:30pm.

The run will benefit our Special Angels Recreation program, a year round recreation, therapy and leisure activity organization. There will be 2 live bands a pig roast and more at the after party. Special Angels Recreation is growing and we want to continue to grow. Our goal is to continue to give children affected by autism and other different abilities choices but this requires funding.

Therapy is very expensive! Most of our families can't afford the many therapies that are out there but so desperately needed but with more funding we can help to educate our staff on current proven therapies so they can provide them to our children or hire professionals t provide the therapy with little or no cost to the caregivers. We can hire an art therapist and music therapist to provide these services for our children. We can start our own special needs Karate program that will help our children with fine and gross motor skills, following directions and build self esteem in a structured environment, we can continue to provide the many therapies we already have in place and much more.

We are running out of room. Mayor Di Lascio along with the Lyndhurst Recreation have been wonderful to us but we are creating so many new programs that we running out of space and need our own space so we can add and grow. By either renting an existing facility or building a facility the sky is the limit on what we can provide. We are also finding that we need our own small multipurpose field that is completely gated in for the safety of our children. Fields are scarce and we have certain requirements because our children are special needs so building our own field would enable us to have a small multipurpose field to run our sports programs. This cannot happen overnight but with successful fundraisers like our run we can move closer to that goal.

We are now providing children with Drum Therapy, we are waiting for our license to be a provider of Listening Therapy, our Social Skills Group has grown to 3 classes a week, our Exceptional Dance has a dance recital complete with costumes scenery lighting and gives the children a chance to get a good workout, build their fine and gross motor skills, socialize, build self esteem and promotes normalization, our Cheer/Dance Squad has been a huge success we have been in 3 competitions invited to the Disney competition and going to Trenton to perform in front of the State Assemblymen., Tee Ball, Soccer, Bowling, and Basketball are our sports programs for any child age 2 to adult. There is so much more that we provide for children this is just a sample of what our children have available to them and we plan on adding so much more with additional funding and our own space.

For our caregivers we have Speaker Meetings/Workshops and support. We provide a family that will be there for each other through good times and bad times. Everyone needs a place to go where they are understood we have that now.

We have special events through the year. Our Art Show is something that we are very proud of. Our children create the artwork that hangs at a gallery for a month with a reception for the young artists complete with media. Our Art Auction is a fine dining adult affair where we auction the paintings off. This serves as a night out for the parents and we invite some local and State level officials to raise awareness and show our leaders what our children are capable of so they continue to write laws to protect and enhance their lives. We have our Softball Challenge where our parents play against the LFD and NAFD it’s a great night and an autism awareness event. Dinner with Santa and Breakfast with the Easter Bunny are family events where we celebrate the holiday together as a family. We also do group trips and a Pumpkin Picking Hayride Trip for Halloween. Our soon to be Parents Survival Night (a night out for parents) is going to give the parents a chance to do some errands, have some personal time or just put their feet up and relax knowing their child is in a safe atmosphere. You can help to ensure that we continue to provide the services need for families affected by autism and other lifelong diseases for many years to come by contributing in any way you can to events like this.