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My residents love these! Please make some more! (I have nearly done all of the anagram quizzes on this site now) Thanks in advance

We love a collaborative project and everyone was so happy with how our peacock turned out.
We do have someone who did the peacock body differently.
Thank you for the idea 🙂

I am just starting activities in a long term stay hospital ward. I plan to do afternoon teas with China cups and saucers and a cake plate with carry handel that i made myself. This can be done in a single room with the resident and family member or in the group ward with a few people at a time.I also have a tablecloth with a world map on it. This brings out
so much discussion about where they have worked or gone on holiday and my plan is to introduce flags for the different countries. I am reading all the comments and keeping a note of interesting activities I could try.

Our local food bank donates non alcohol beer of variety of types.
Our local A & W donated small root beer steins x 12..
We are planning a party - and will share how it goes

HAPPY OKTOBERFEST

Thank you to golden Cares for provided calendar that i used monthly the format is easy to copy edit and adding your daily or monthly activity.

My input for small or large group activity is domestic prepared for the kitchen to cook.
Washed potatoes, carrots and corns.
Potatoes peeler each
corns is easy to Pell's
Is a talking point reminiscence/laughter interact with co-residents.

Where are the answers?

How to play this game… Ocean Bingo? will be glad for instructions
Cheers

Excellent. We do have ways to ask, but some of these are great conversation starters and ice breakers. Thank you for sharing.

Great idea, our residents have fun. Thank you

Hello I have male who has lewy dementia and his wife need help with some stuff
First time client with lewy
Do you have activities games crafts
For the couple to do
I'm a caregiver

I am so happy that I invested in this site. It really does help with so many ideas to improve my monthly calendars.

love the AFL football bunting. Thank you .......

Thanks so much for the info on what a jack is , must be a British game never have heard of the game in the US.

Oh this is the PERFECT CRAFT for a busy on person director like myself! Thank you 😊

Wonderful site and great activities. I will be using the Melbourne Cup Quiz for my social support gathering. Thank you Golden Carers Team and keep up the great work.

INDEPENDENT is a good word

This is such a great Idea. I myself was shocked at the ages of some of these favorites. Just showing that I'm getting older myself. LOL

Thank you for these history pages. They spark a lot of conversation and the residents find them interesting.

I cant find the Halloween letters?

Hi Sheila! The jack is the small white target ball that players aim for. The game comes with two sets of colored bowls - one set for each team. Players roll their bowls, trying to get closest to the jack. It's a fun, easy game to learn and enjoy with friends!

Love Golden Carers.Full of information and absolutely amazing.

I have used these pictures to create a weekly competition for some of my residents and the staff with the best and funniest caption winning a small selection of goodies.
Thankyou so much for the wonderful activities.

Loving this resource - great for morning tea engagement also bus outings
Thank you :)

I made my ladies a Handball game to play and an individual trophy for them to take home and one for the centre

I always include a Yodeling Contest for a reason to give away a prize. It spices up the party and is always fun. Begin with a Knock Knock joke: Knock knock, Who's there, Yodel, Yodel who? I didn't know you could yodel! Ha Ha....

Hi. This I think is what I am looking for. Our residents are very capable of learning new things and I think this fits into this category. thanks

Massive shout out to the fantastic lady Lucy who runs all our sewing sessions at our home in Wales. Her talent is phenomenal.

Great Resource, does anyone know when September will be available?

We made these today ! Thank you for sharing

Thanks Sally for the feedback, Gwyneth

Good ideas

Golden ideas from Golden carers, so helpful and meaningful for our residents.

Approximately how many soaps did this recipe (4 cups grated soap) make? I know it will depend on soap size, but a rough idea would be great.

Hi all, looking for AFL team logos for colouring in please? Thank you kindly

We're having an "Elvis for President" party the week before our presidential election. These games will be perfect!

Here's a list of exercises that we do with the residents every morning!

I think golden carers is wonderful I am on all the time looking for new ideas thank you for all the amazing activity ideas

My Ladies completed this activity and they all had so much fun and loved there finished products.

Here is the finished products my ladies did.
They had heaps of fun.

We are having our Mad Hatters tea party tomorrow. One mud cake with red fondant and white chocolate buttons to look like a mushroom. Australia.

Hello fellow Steeves friend! We've done this at TLT -- so fun :)

Good day,

This is very exciting, I am venturng into Armchair travel and was not sure how, and where to start. This information will come in very handy for my new venture. Kindly advice on how much you charge per person.

Thank you

I used this as a warm up activity for my community 'cognitive stimulation therapy' programme for people with mild to moderate dementia. I called out the question and all participants correctly guessed some of the rhyme answers; between them all 20 were answered correctly, with only a couple of misses with words that did not rhyme with “light”. It was great to see some of the quieter participants having the confidence to answer.

We love to play Prize Twister!
We keep track the scores for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.
I make different size bags of little candies prizes. Anyone plays gets a candy for playing.

We do a Zumba class off YouTube that is seated. Zumba for seniors. I have adapted it a little but my ladies and gentlemen love it. They say they feel like they have exercised!

I used this as a warm up activity for my community 'cognitive stimulation therapy' programme for people with mild to moderate dementia. I called out the question and all participants correctly guessed some of the rhyme answers; between them all 20 were answered correctly, with only a couple of misses with words that did not rhyme with “light”. It was great to see some of the quieter participants having the confidence to answer.

I've used this as a warm up activity in a community 'cognitive stimulation therapy' programme for people with mild to moderate dementia. I called out the first part and the participants had to complete the saying. It was really good to see some of my normally quiet participants confidently giving answers and I think was a successful activity.

I made cards with half the saying in 'normal' text and the rest of the saying on a separate card in italics. I put my community 'cognitive stimulation therapy' group into two teams and asked each team to work together to match their cards to get the full proverb. Once all were matched, team members took turns to read out the proverb, then a discussion about the meaning of the proverb was had. My participants seemed to enjoy the exercise and conversation.

I'm currently facilitating a 'cognitive stimulation therapy' in the community for people with mild to moderate dementia. As recommended by others, we played the balloon game using 'pool noodles' (I cut each one into 3 pieces). It was the most animated I have seen the group, in the many weeks of working with them. We all had so much fun : ) Thanks so much for this resource and everyone's comments.

Can you please tell me how much clay is used per person? I see the tub is either 2 1/2# or 5#.