I once did a knitting club. We called it Knit Wits. We'd knit and tell jokes. For those who could no longer knit, I had a memory box full of old patterns, different types of wool (some of which needed to to wound up) and assorted finished knitted projects (hats, mitts, scarves, baby clothes)
We have elected to start and knitting club and as had been mentioned before people who can no longer knit or crochet can come be mentors for other people including staff. We have named our group Get Knitted and hopefully will be kicking it off this week.
We have a Knitting Group that meet weekly even those who could not knit anymore come just for social or a chat for an hour then have afternoon tea together it’s a good way also to include a new resident make them feel included.
Thanks Inga, we have added your activity idea to an existing one. Thanks for sharing!
Roslyn
19th Sep 2013
Community & Diversional Therapist Trainer
We do this at Karingal in Tassie each Monday afternoon, and the group has grown from 2 - 14 each week. Lovely conversation group and they have produced such wonderful item for charity ros
We have this activity, fortnightly, depending on what project we have going at the time, it is a great interaction activity for staff and residents, our residents make things to sell on our craft stall and to put things in our local show, we have quite a big group now 12-15 somedays, they don't want the afternoon to finish, a big success
We do something similar at our facility however everything we make we donate to the local ronald mcdonald house & when we have a box of stuff the residents that made it make a trip & hand deliver it to the sick kids the residents love to see the little kids faces
This is a wonderful idea. At our Day Centre last year we knitted squares and made them into blankets for the animal welfare league and donated them. Also old blankets and towels were cut into smaller sizes so they could be used as towels to wash the shelter animals. we visited the centre with our clients and saw how the shelter was run and ofcourse the animals who would benenfit from the blankets in winter. Now is the time to knit those squares ready for winter if any body else might be interested in doing the some sort of thing. cheers debbie
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Thank you for such an Outstanding! Phenomenal! And Amazing site! This is the best thus far! This is a Director’s Bible! From the holidays and guess who and Armchair travel. I can name so much more! You give templates with the activity! I thank you so much for sharing your ideas! I thank God he lead me to this site!
Tammy Powell Program Outreach Director United States
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Thanks for sharing this