A Day to Play! - Free Events for Medically Special Kids
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Free Community Events for Medically Special Kids

 

You’re Invited to A Day to Play!

Join us for a free, fun-filled afternoon designed just for Central Florida’s medically special kids, their siblings, and their parents and caregivers!

Bringing together our region’s medically fragile children and their families with caring volunteers, generous sponsors, host organizations, and student nurses from area universities, Day to Play events fill a pressing community need and add joy to the lives of these special kids.

We invite you to join us and …

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+ Experience Joy!

Medically special kids and their families will enjoy a memory-making day of exciting and adaptive activities, including immersive story telling, magic shows, arts and crafts, face painting and a super-sibling station.

+ Make New Friends!

Medically special kids will spend time together with other kids that look, sound, walk or roll just like them, and parents and caregivers will enjoy the company of like-minded adults on the same journey of raising a child or children with special medical needs.

+ Strengthen Bonds!

Able-bodied siblings will create lasting memories with their medically special siblings through interactive fun stations, which include sensory tubes, coloring activities, superpower discovery zone and much more.

+ Open Your Heart!

A Day to Play thrives because of the involvement of community partners, volunteers, [sponsors][4] and friends who donate their time and talents to make our events so special. If you have an open heart and mind and a good spirit, we would love to have you share the special day with us!

 
 

A New and Exciting Experience

In 2021, a family-centered provider of individualized, in-home care for medically special children throughout Central Florida recognized an urgent need for play activities for their patients and other kids like them.

Playgrounds, theme parks, and other kid-centric spaces are simply not adapted for children who require specialized medical care and equipment to live. But these kids need to play just as much as any other kid.

So we launched A Day to Play last July with an inaugural event on the UCF campus open to all of the community’s medically special kids — not just FFSC kids.

That first event, hosted in partnership with the university’s College of Nursing, was followed by a second Day to Play in October at CrossLife Church in Oviedo and then, this June, a third event at Eastbrook Elementary in Winter Park.