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Basia
Program Manager & Volunteer Coordinator
Program Manager & Volunteer Coordinator
Steph: It would be great to have images; things famous in various countries, (eiffel tower; london bridge; pyramids, national parks, country flags, amazon river, the alps, bull arenas, to add to the r...
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Lisa
Activities for Seniors
Activities for Seniors
can you make more like this? just a different animal or creature
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Elissa
Occupational Therapist
Occupational Therapist
The photos are great. However, it would be great if the writing on the posters can be changed. Clear easy to read fonts in bold such as Arial or Verdana in size 14 upwards.
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Sheila
Volunteer Arts/crafts Assistant
Volunteer Arts/crafts Assistant
This was fun. At the end I had to find a video and we sang "American Pie".
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Farmington Station
Programming Team
Programming Team
definitely add something I heard a bit ago... Montreal installed swings on bus stops routes. FACT :)
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Darla
Recreation and Rehab Mgr
Recreation and Rehab Mgr
Fantastic, for the screen! Residents love dogs!
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Darla
Recreation and Rehab Mgr
Recreation and Rehab Mgr
A great activity for the white board vs hangman. Thank you for this idea!
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Sarah
Life Enrichment Director
Life Enrichment Director
Great idea; Maybe on your activities list estimated preparation time
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Park Place
Life Enrichment
Life Enrichment
What senior knows who this is? I would prefer to not have residents pinning facial hair on a picture .. good for a party with 40-50 yr olds
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Kelly
ACTIVITIES DIRECTOR
ACTIVITIES DIRECTOR
this is a great activity for men! but it could be for everyone!!! Thanks for sharing!
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Katherine
Resident
Resident
I think my brain is muddled. I can’t figure out this game. Exactly what are they doing with the dice. If they roll a 4 then do they advance 4 spaces? Rolling the exact I think is when they get to the...
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Jane
Activities
Activities
We all enjoyed this and had good laugh and staff as well
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Darla
Recreation and Rehab Mgr
Recreation and Rehab Mgr
Thank you for the layout. Good for speech and identifying our own volunteer commitments within.
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Laura
Occupational Therapist
Occupational Therapist
love them. please create more. perhaps some with simple lines and fewer details. thank you
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Doris
Recreational Activities Officer
Recreational Activities Officer
can't you do something in between them two? like only 4 pages? One is not long enough and the other way to much.
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I am trying to brain storm an idea for a ball pit game for memory and personal care. Has anyone planned an activity like this before? I was thinking of using a small pool and placing the ball pit ball...
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Anita
Respite Director
Respite Director
Having six categories allows you to work with a die if you don't have a six colored spinner.
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Andrea
Life Enrichment Director
Life Enrichment Director
Please add more to this list so it will last longer.
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Birte
Diversional Therapist
Diversional Therapist
Brisbane (QLD, AUS) has a fantastic archive of photos you can access. Its fun to find photos & compare with google maps to see how much things have changed.
https://brisbane.recollectcms.com/
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Katherine
Resident
Resident
We added a little twist. Each player was given a fake 50$ bill. Before opening the envelopes they were allowed to buy another players envelope. If in agreement they swapped envelopes and the seller go...
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LaSandra
Director
Director
I'm starting my senior activities next week and can't wait to use some of the content on this site. I love what is offered already and am sure the senior population I am serving will enjoy each activi...
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Kate
Aged Care
Aged Care
Hi there there is no templates of these two flags. Tourist Strait Islander no template aboriginal no template thank you
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Ann
Activity Director
Activity Director
I can't seem to get the images to show up to print. Is anyone else having this issue?
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Activites
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
This activity was very good!! It worked really well!!
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Basia
Program Manager & Volunteer Coordinator
Program Manager & Volunteer Coordinator
I sure love the concept. It would be awesome if the images were larger (1/3 the page) or we had the ability to lay the format out in a way that would serve a diverse audience.
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Darla
Recreation and Rehab Mgr
Recreation and Rehab Mgr
Veronica,
these are REALLY GOOD! I struggled with a few! Well done. I can't wait to try with residents with goals to maintain cognition.
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Sheila
Volunteer Arts/crafts Assistant
Volunteer Arts/crafts Assistant
My group in my exercise class liked this one, thanks.
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Sheila
Volunteer Arts/crafts Assistant
Volunteer Arts/crafts Assistant
This was fun as always. Thanks for contributing.
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Lorraine
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
we are having an armchair football game between residents and staff and a sweep stake with a small soft football as the prize.
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Cwa
CWA House
I use this every day for a who am I trivia during breakfast. I also read out the other on this day items and of course the bad jokes. My residents love it!
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Recreation
Recreation Coordinator
Recreation Coordinator
This is hilarious. Thank you for offering something that will get a giggle out of our elders if we have to give them a solitary activity. Gentle humour is one of the best intervention for early stag...
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Kim
Recreation Therapist
Recreation Therapist
Is there a way to make the poster download a tabloid file/ size? like the calendars?
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Sharon
Lifestyle
Lifestyle
Thanks Talita,
Really appreciated,
Sharon from Phillip Island
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Cynthia
Activities Assistant
Activities Assistant
Wish you included the pronunciation; I think I would have mispronounced most of them...
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1 month ago
Updated to round 22, thanks everyone! The final rounds don't seem to have been annouced yet.
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Debbie
Training Officer
Training Officer
Love this! Will come in so useful in my place of work - thank you so much
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Marilyn
Social Support Assistant
Social Support Assistant
Good Morning Talita, I see that round 16 and beyond have been released by the AFL when will these be available as I'm off on leave and would like to have it ready for my fill in worker.
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Sheila
Volunteer Arts/crafts Assistant
Volunteer Arts/crafts Assistant
This was awesome, thanks so very much.
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Marina
RAOC
RAOC
We are looking to upgrade our activity prizes. Right now, we use chips and raisins, which aren't suitable for our residents on texture-modified diets. We have the usual yogurts and custards in the fri...
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1 month ago
I love these topical colouring in's. Is there any chance of having the King added to this one please?
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Brandi
Director of ABIDE Respite Ministries
Director of ABIDE Respite Ministries
This was fantastic for our group! I love the attached songs - It kept everyone engaged
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I appreciate how accessible everything is to create worthwhile, mind-opening, engaging and absolutely wonderful activities for our friends. Our calendars are overflowing with variety - there is something for everyone, every day. Thank you so much for helping mecreate days that always give everyone something to look forward to. They are engaged, active, laughing, and living life to the fullest. Because of you, there are endless possibilities.
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