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Pam
Managing Director
Managing Director
No-Prep Activities Program Pack
Brilliant - thank you so much!
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Leah
Lifestyle Coordinator
Lifestyle Coordinator
Armchair Travel to Egypt
Can you create travel to Armania?
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Laura
Recreation Therapist
Recreation Therapist
Name the Band Pictionary
Used this in our Adult Day Program and it was awesome.
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Debra
Lifestyle Assistant
Lifestyle Assistant
My residents love to colour and paint, can anyone out there advise how I can put images onto canvas to have as a guide for them.
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Cheryl
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Paper Quilling
My residents love flower quelling, they cant believe how nice they turn out and so easy to do. We made a big red heart full of roses, for valentines day
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Pamela
RN
RN
This Day in History for Seniors: April
I think updating and bringing us into the 21st century would be good.
Hardly any of my clients know about the 1400's.
More music expanding with all genre of music would be nice.
Happy Birthday celeb...
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Maeve
Activity Co Ordinator
Activity Co Ordinator
True or False Quiz - Easy
Maybe a little too simple, eg penguins can fly might be harder
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Amanda
Group Leader
Group Leader
No-Prep Activities Program Pack
What a brilliant “pack”- much appreciated! I run a group where we sometimes have outside speakers- but this is a fantastic resource in case they don’t appear!
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Ashwin
Lifestyle Co-Ordinator
AFL Tipping 2026
Hi, These weekly Footy Tipping printouts are great. Could you please provide the rounds from 15 until the end of the season. Thanks
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Lysiane
Activities assistant
Activities assistant
I am doing an armchair travel program and need information on Napa Valley. Does anyone have any suggestions where I can find information?
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Teagan
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Make Your Own Mayan Mask
Can't wait to do this with my residents! :)
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Brittany
Activity Director
Activity Director
I'm new to the website, and I'm trying to figure out how to create 2 different calendars for different parts of my facility. Does anyone have any help to offer? Thanks!
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Bev
Activity Co-ordinator
Activity Co-ordinator
Design a Nigerian Gele
We did this activity and our group absolutely loved it.
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5 months ago
Song Pictionary
For everyone that enjoyed this activity, a name the band version is now available:
https://www.goldencarers.com/name-the-band-pictionary/96078
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Farmington Station
Programming Team
Programming Team
Guess the Cheese Quiz
We enjoyed quiz immensely but you forgot goat and Swiss cheese!
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Tracy
Memory Care Activities coordinator
Memory Care Activities coordinator
Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-Wow Singalong
Hilarious. We did a poetry activity reading Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken and discussing with simple questions what it could mean, and we added this song where the residents recited the lyrics and...
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5 months ago
Conversation Uno
I am loving all these new great ideas!! I absolutely love Golden Carers and am so grateful to have this resource!
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Middle Swan
Lifestyle
Lifestyle
The Amazing Human Body - True or False?
This is good, could you please make this as a slideshow. Thanks
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Rosa
Recreation
Recreation
Turtle Shell Weaving
So cute! A great adaptation of the “god’s eye”
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Eyvonne
Day Centre Care Assistant
Day Centre Care Assistant
Have you Ever...? Game Paddles
Took me some time to print, laminate and glue the lollipop sticks on but it was soooo worth the time. Clients in our day centre just loved it and had so much fun. Thank you!!!
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Flower Leis for a Hawaiian Party
If you want to make this activity, even easier, get some tissue paper and have some of the residents ripped into strips Then put a flower piece of straw and then a strip of tissue paper that can be sc...
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
I am from Massachusetts and we celebrated Patriots’ Day
I know that most states do not celebrate this our holiday but it’s fun to remember this day
I especially like to read Paul’s Reveres Ride
http...
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Elizabeth
Activity And Volunteer Coordinator
Activity And Volunteer Coordinator
Song Pictionary
This is SO well done! Thank you!
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Vicky
Celebrations Director
Celebrations Director
Movie Day Favorites for Seniors
Driving Miss Daisy was a hit.
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Andrea
Activity Co Ordination At Senior Group
Activity Co Ordination At Senior Group
Easter Door Hangers
Thank you - I did this activity with our rest home residents. They loved it so much they kept colouring for most of the day. :-)
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M&M
ADP Coordinator
ADP Coordinator
Song Pictionary
Wonderful Activity!!! The day Program clients loved guessing the song and then we sang the song as well. Thanks for sharing
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Jane
Office Manager
Office Manager
Pot Luck Quiz 82
i don't really understand the answer to the 3rd question- What was Buzz Lightyear's original name? the answer is supposed to be english?
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Lisa
Enrichment Coordinator
Enrichment Coordinator
Pin the Band-Aid on the Injury
Is there visuals to go with the instructions, or is this just a suggestion?
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Norma
Assisted Living
Assisted Living
10 Activities for International Joke Day
Thank you are very fun ideas, thanks for all it is wonderful
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Eileen
Director dementia respite prog.
Director dementia respite prog.
Hidden Birds Game
Birds in New York State, USA
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Hope
Activity Coordinator
Activity Coordinator
Space Travel Word Search
Space has two CC in the word search, wanted to make sure you guys know this, so it could be fixed.
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Katrine
Leisure and Lifestyle
Song Pictionary
Am going to try this activity next week it looks fun.
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King Island
ADC
ADC
Song Pictionary
My residents loved this game !🫶 I struggled with the game resetting after playing the s ongs ( I’m very new to computers lol 😂)
And only a couple of the songs has the lyrics , would of been good to...
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Andrea
Life Enrichment Director
Life Enrichment Director
Chair Drumming
Can you provide a list of songs to drum to? We have tried this activity previously and the songs were not quite right. Would love to see a link to connect to songs that work well.
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Dawn
Activity Director
Activity Director
Lucky Dog Card Game
This game, using two decks, is too slow for our residents, as it takes too long to produce winners. I play a shorter version by deleting some (the same) cards from both decks, especially for a smaller...
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Joyce
Activities Dir
Activities Dir
Thank you so very much for the Name That Tunes...my Participants at Page Robbins Adult Day Center just LOVED playing and singing along. We would love more Name That Tunes.
Joyce Quintrell
Activity Dir...
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Sheylah
Animadora socio cultural
Animadora socio cultural
Cupcake Flower Collage
Muchas gracias por esta propuesta. Fue muy bien aceptada por los residentes
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Littlefair
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Animal Tracks Quiz
This is a brilliant activity! Residents really had fun guessing these! Thank you.
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Littlefair
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Song Pictionary
Residents really enjoyed this! Thank you ;-)
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Elna
Wellbeing Coordinator
Wellbeing Coordinator
Family Favorites Singalong
Can we have more music resources like this please?
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Andrea
Life Enrichment Director
Life Enrichment Director
Finish The Proverbs #1
This is great but there are not enough questions to fill 30 minutes.
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Nicole
Program Director
Program Director
Favourite Songs Bingo
Does anyone have a playlist they can share for this bingo?
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Meagan
Activities Director
Activities Director
Guess the State: PA, NJ, or MD
Fun activity! We are in PA and I learned a thing or two!
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Jessica
Activity Coordinator
Activity Coordinator
Tea Pot planters
Thank you for this wonderful idea I just ordered this will be a Mother's
Day craft
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Kensington Club
Social Adult Day Program
Social Adult Day Program
European Landmarks Bingo
Why don't you have a 1-2 sentence description of each landmark for the leader? Inevitably, the participants will ask about the landmarks. It would help with timing and effectiveness to have the descri...
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Sheila
Volunteer Arts/crafts Assistant
Volunteer Arts/crafts Assistant
Trees of the World Quiz
This was easy yet hard but thanks for all you do. Love this site sooooo much.
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Sharon Kurland
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This is my go-to site. I’ve looked at others, but Golden Carers has a sense of fun and creativity that makes our activities enjoyable for everyone. The activities are adaptable for all levels. We did the Olympic Day activities and had a blast - everyone got up and participated! Thank you.
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