PlayGroup NYC

We are a group of Special Educators who take a cognitive, play-based approach to scaffold social skill development.

We individualize our curriculum in order to address each child’s specific social concern.

07/21/2025

Join Krista and BK Parents to talk about social skills groups! On Instagram live today!

07/17/2025

We’ve been doing scavenger hunts in our summer intensives! All of our finds turn into something fun!

07/14/2025

Ready for summer intensives in our Brooklyn office! We’re going on adventures and doing so many fun arts and crafts, while building on social capacities! We love our summer intensives ❤️❤️❤️

06/16/2025

Choices, choices, choices! An important social skill we work on is to make choices during unstructured play! We love using our maker wall to help our children have a ton of cool choices to initiate play.

06/11/2025

This is what PlayGroup looks like 😂dressing up, having fun, being goofy and connecting with so much joy.

06/03/2025

Self advocacy and sensory needs! We love making slime, arts and crafts and dress up. It’s not only a great way to connect with peers, but also an important way to build self advocacy skills. Don’t like slime touching your fingers? We’ve got spoons! Don’t want to use glitter glue in a project? We’ve got funnels and sparkles! Giving our children the tools to self advocate is an important way to support neurodiversity in a social community!

05/12/2025

Invisible Shriek Goo ewwww! More context to motivate and help our kids connect to play ideas!

05/09/2025

A box of flowers….turns into poison! Some of our kids need a little context to get their play going and connected. Even better when we create context from their own play ideas. Poison flowers….for the ancient red dragons of course!

05/06/2025

Playgroup News: we’re opening our Upper West Side location this fall! We’re so excited to be back in the neighborhood where we all started doing social skills groups! Let us know if you’re interested in joining the fun at joinplaygroup@gmail.com

05/05/2025

Mixing up slime with our “slime experts!” You’d be surprised how many ways we can incorporate slime-making into our social skills curriculum at PlayGroup 😂

05/03/2025

Enjoy your day! Having some racing fun at PlayGroup!

04/16/2025

Solving problems can be messy and means hearing ideas other than our own. Tricky social problem solving in action here as we validate everyone’s ideas!

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Brooklyn, NY

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http://www.joinplaygroupnyc.com/

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PlayGroup Social Skills Groups

Krista Wilbur and Becky Thomas as Special Education Itinerant Teachers who work together to create a fun, child-centered approach to developing social skills and work on mental health. We take a cognitive, play-based approach to scaffold social skill development. We individualize our curriculum in order to address each child’s specific social concern. We use play-based methods, and create child-led activities for our sessions to teach and practice specific social skills. Most importantly, we like to make community building and connection-making fun for all of our students!