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Thank you for the information. I am not a
Activity Director, but I am in Activities department it’s been very hard trying to find some activities for ones that are not focused and the ones that are the fall risk ones . They really like the parachute with a balloon . The balloon is really good idea the range of motion specially for the arms and hands . I need more ideas . Thank you ????

Where are the answers for this visual quiz? They’re not in with the PowerPoint

Hi. Where do you get the pictures of the authors?

Love these bingo games and cards. It's such a nice break from our regular bingo and the residents seem to really enjoy them.
Thank you so much for these!!

Thanking you all kindly

Thank you for sharing this activity.
What a wonderful idea to pamper our residents

Wow! What a clever idea.I will add this in my recreation calendar. Many thanks

last year i made a lighthouse from different sized plant pots painted with white strips and black windows and attached a Childs basket ball net on a small pole to the top and we played rough seas ball toss. I'm sorry I can not find any pictures on my computer they most be on my works phone

Oh my goodness! I am sooooo happy.

Thank you so much for taking on board my comments and adjusting the activity accordingly so quickly. This now, is so much more representative of the people and culture of Jamaica.

May I also thank the person who initially submitted the activity and hope they are also pleased with the changes made.

I will now, of course, be doing this Jamaican Bingo with my clients at the earliest opportunity. Thanks again, Marie :-)

Love these and wish you had more my memory support group enjoy doing these .

This is a nice idea. Our residents will like it.
Thanks!

It's a nice to end and bring the session down with the coming "home" songs!

Love this idea! Simple but looks affective.
Thanks for sharing.

This is the exact thing that will get my ladies chatting away.
They Love the unusual things I find to share with them.
Keep these coming please.

Glad people are enjoying in other homes.

You can also hand out playing cards, instead of rolling dice. Make sure wveryone gets equal # of cards. Then with a second deck that matches the first deck, shuffle and then call the card. If player has the card they can steal someone else's envelope. Same game concept but using cards.

Love this! With the Paris Olympics coming soon, I will add this to our travel edition of Price is Right! Should be fun!

Hi Cher

Thanks for sharing, great activity, my Clients really enjoyed this. Great participation levels and high engagement

Cheers Rob

Thank you for sharing Marine, I have a few would be poets, individually they write poems, the idea of a "poets club" is fantastic, I have put it to the small group and their response is fantastic.
Thank you
Bobbie

I am starting my role as activities coordinator next week. How useful is it to join..Do you get lots my re information and help .
Thank you

I am excited about this game; Grocery Ad Scavenger Hunt it sounds like fun. I am adding it to my August Calendar of activities for my seniors. I will let you know later how they like it.

Ruth Smith
Greenwood Senior Center Manager

Please print some more, my residents enjoyed the reading aloud participation stories.

I love this!

Maybe we can create some more cards, each one different, so that it would be more like real bingo.

If I ever make the time to do it myself, I promise I will attach the images! ????

Hi Everyone,
Just want to say what an excellent site we have here, and it gives us more idea every month and thank you to all those involved. I would like to reach out and see if anyone knows of a Dog Therapy that visits age care residents, we are on the Northside of Brisbane, but they have to be reputable company. Kind Regards Louise Dunn

This was a lot of fun! We used it for our “Beach Day Social” as one of our activities. I can’t wait to try more of these in the future!

Thank you, Amy! The Price is Right is a monthly activity for us because game shows are a big hit in our facility! I’m so glad you and those you serve enjoyed it and I love the price range idea!

Once the hairdryer is blowing on them they spin in a circle. The tape should not separate.

Hi there... please help us understand better. When you say the balloons are, "spinning in the air"... how? Do they release from the double sided tape? How do they go from stuck down to moving?

Thank you.

Kind Regards,
Christie

The residents love this so much!! thank you

This was such a crowd pleaser! Thank you so much! We also enjoyed the ocean poster craft too! Keep the group craft ideas coming!

thank you great pictures for themes

As a Rec Therapist in Canada I use this site all the time. So many great ideas!

This was so fun! The activity lasted the perfect amount of time (1 hour). My residents really enjoyed it! I did make an adjustment and gave them a price rage to guess for each item.

This was an absolute winner! All my residents enjoyed playing. We added some different variations (toss with eyes closed, etc) and point system. We even used the spinner to make it more challenging and they had to throw their bean bag on the color they spun.

Thank you! love to mix this in with activities.

Thank you Golden Carers for amazing activities available -
many wonderful hours of enjoyment to provide.
Linda

We play a similar game at Christmas , only we also have a scratchie ticket in some cups, and some cups are empty. Much hilarity.

Love this site

These are such fun games! My residents will love them! I love Golden Carers and I recommend it to others all the time.

All the residents really enjoyed doing the sunflowers
Thank you

Hi there! Does anyone have any other ideas for words to use for this game? I'm out of ideas at Transportation and Pedestrian!

where is the powerpoint presentation? Id love to use it but dont see an attachment or downloadable PowerPoint.

great craft! Would love to have the flower template provided. This took a lot of time to find one online.

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing. I collect funny pictures and make them to use as books to look through with residents I provide 1-1 visits for. These are perfect and so funny! I look forward to resident remarks. I know they'll enjoy them.

I really look forward to reading all the ideas regularly and am particularly fond of poems and jokes and quizzes. The staff where I Volunteer also enjoy joining in and are quite often amazed at how receptive and knowledgeable many of the elderly Residents are considering their Dementia diagnosis so keeping them busy and involved in thinking is the best medicine. I personally so wish more people would Volunteer in Care Homes as it is so rewarding.

IS THIS WINTER SPOT THE DIFFERENCE NEW?

I think the answers would be clearer if highlighted in red (or some other colour) on the solution page. Otherwise, I'm sure our members will enjoy "searching" for the words. Good Word Search.

Hello
Our facility is in a rural town 200 kms from the nearest city.
I have worked as an Activity Coordinator for 13 years.
One of my first projects was to get historic pictures of our area, print and laminate them.
Over the years I have collected about 200 historic pictures
All our Residents and visitors love these photos. They discuss the photo's content and it also prompts them to talk about the "old days"
I have learnt many new things about the history of this area from this activity

that is funny

Very good easy idea! Thanks so much.