Established 2026
Creative Ways for Seniors to Spend Time with Each Other
We come to you. Kiddo’s Play Dates is mobile — we bring a three-hour creative afternoon into your senior housing community, materials and all.
Art stations around the room, a Kiddo at every table, music and games running right through it. No artistic experience needed. Just a sense of play and curiosity.
We travel to you 3 hours, drop in any time All materials provided No experience needed
How a play date works
We set up several art stations around your community room, with a Kiddo facilitator at each one. Everybody is making the same thing — but splitting the room into small groups is what lets each person get real attention and work at their own pace.
Music and games are woven into the experience. Clients play and sing along while their hands are busy.
Half an hour is enough to make one thing and take it home. Plenty of residents start here.
Arrive late, leave early, or step out and come back. The stations stay set up the whole time.
Take the project all the way through, finish it properly, and leave with it in hand.
Tried, tested, ready to book
These five are built and road-tested — run many times, in real community rooms, with real residents. Pick one and we bring it to you.
A Show and Tell box goes on every table, filled with objects chosen to spark nostalgia and conversation. The stories come out on their own.
A game of chance, played on a tic-tac-toe grid. Everyone guesses whether the spinner will land on a star or a planet — call it right and you win.
A three-dimensional puzzle: turn and fit the cubes until they build a seasonal tree, then draw the tree you just made.
Layer after layer of vivid colored sand poured into a glass keepsake bottle, so no two come out alike. Everyone designs their own bag to carry it home in.
Sand, gravel, stone and ornamental greenery arranged into a small garden in a glass vase — a succulent landscape that lives on the windowsill afterwards.
Also ready on demand — the Book Club Play Date and Tea Parties.
Custom play dates
It starts with a conversation. Your coordinator tells me what their residents need, and I build a play date around it. A writing play date? Something built around movement? Those are the questions we start from.
I work with artists across disciplines, so when a play date calls for a dancer or a writer, I bring one in.
Dancers Writers Actors Musicians Visual artists
tell us who you serve — we’ll design around them
Behind the scenes
Nothing arrives untested. A play date travels a long way from first idea to your community room — not every one takes exactly this road, but none of them reach a resident until we know they work.
Many of our play dates begin as a lesson plan I’ve taught to elementary school students. If it can hold a child’s attention, there’s something in it worth keeping.
Then it’s redesigned for senior engagement — the materials, the pacing, the number of steps to finish.
Every material is sourced, sorted and jarred — and where a play date is played for prizes, the prize trunk is stocked too. Nobody at the residence has to shop for anything.
Then I take it home. That’s my aunt — she’s 78 — and her friend, playing jacks with me. They tell me what’s wrong with an activity long before a focus group does.
Before any resident sees it, we run it with a focus group and watch what actually happens. Plenty of good ideas don’t survive this part.
The Kiddos learn it hands-on first — the same way residents will — and only then does it go into a senior residence, tested, rehearsed, and packed with everything it needs.
The only entry requirement
No artistic experience needed. Just a sense of play and curiosity.
Most people who come haven’t painted since school, and a good number arrive certain they’re "not creative". Three hours later they’re carrying something home and asking when we’re back.
Bringing us in
We work with activity directors, life-enrichment coordinators and family members. You don’t need to prepare anything.
Fifteen minutes. We talk through your residents, your room and your budget, and you pick which of the play dates you’d like.
The Kiddos come to you with everything — materials, aprons, music, prizes. All we need is your community room, tables and chairs.
Residents come and go as they like. Everyone leaves holding something they made, and we leave the room as we found it.
Who comes
Kiddo’s Play Dates LLC is Marc Boone and a team of facilitators. We call ourselves the Kiddos because we’ll always be kids at heart.
It’s a friend-run business. The Kiddos aren’t just colleagues — they’re good friends and artists, and they bring that friendly, creative energy to every play date.
Borinquen Court & Millbrook Terrace · Bronx, NY
Every photograph on this page is from one of our own afternoons. No stock pictures, no models — these are the people who come.
Pricing
Pricing depends on which play date you choose, the size of your group and how often you’d like us. It’s quicker to talk than to read a price list, so book a free 15-minute call and we’ll work out what suits your community.
Book a free 15-minute callno pressure, nothing to prepare
On the call we’ll cover:
Rather talk now? Call (347) 645-1627 or write to marc@kiddosplaydates.com.
Before we come
Your community room, tables and chairs, and the residents. Materials, aprons, music and prizes are ours.
Most of them say that. Nothing is judged, displayed or compared, and no one is asked to show their work to the room.
Not at all. The stations stay set up the whole time, so half an hour is a complete visit and nobody is behind.
Everything is done seated, and there is a Kiddo at every table to help hands that need it.
We scale the number of stations and Kiddos to your group, so the ratio stays small however many residents join.
We serve the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens.
Yes. Ring us and we’ll arrange it with your relative’s residence directly.