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Do your bit to save the planet with this gorgeous recycled Christmas Tree craft activity!
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Here is a lovely christmas craft activity - create beautiful standing Christmas angels!
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This is folk art and maybe some of your residents will remember playing with it as a child. Video included!
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Maintenance of dexterity. Promote sense of accomplishment.
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Here's a fun Christmas quiz for seniors in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
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Here's another quiz to test your christmas knowledge!
Colouring-in, whether with crayons, coloured pencils or paint is therapy as well as a great way to pass the time absorbed in something creative. It may help to maintain what remains of dexterity and fine motor control.
Here is an activity that will help you with your resolve to become more ‘green’. It is fun to make and requires little skill and yet looks rather striking hanged in walls, doors, windows and shelves.
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Get into the spirit of Christmas with this crossword puzzle.
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Lovely Christmas tree ornaments made from recycled Christmas cards
This is a cute craft activity using discarded jigsaw puzzle pieces to create hanging decorations for your factility at Christmas.
Yet another Christmas Quiz!
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Recycle old doilies into these cute baskets for your Christmas table. They can be used to hold rum balls, chocolate, homemade Christmas biscuits and anything else you can think of.
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This is a very useful tree to have! It can be used all year around, just change the ornaments on Easter, Valentines Day, Mothers Day, Chocolate day, Wish Tree Day.
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Any of the Arborvitae evergreens can be used; I find the Thuja occidentalis particularly good because the leaves as flat by nature, making it easier to glue the layers.
Use Christmas cards to create lovely Christmas chain decorations!
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Everyone had so much fun and all the residents and staff laughed until they couldn't laugh any more. The next day residents were asking staff what pantomime were they going to do next year!
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A funny Christmas Pantomime based on the classic tale of Pinocchio. There is nothing like a pantomime for team-building and bonding among staff. It is also loads of fun for staff and residents.
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Make a few of these lovely doves and place them on your Christmas table as a container for chocolate, cookies and marshmallows.
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There are dozens of ways to make Advent calendars from recycled material. This is just one of them.
What is Santa Klaus called in some European countries?
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Use old cards to make ornaments for your Christmas tree or string them along to make a garland for walls or windows.
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These beautiful wreaths can also be made with corks, large buttons, shells, and unshelled nuts.
Use your old newspapers to make this beautiful Christmas wreath.Video instructions included!
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Get everyone into the spirit of Christmas with this fun activity.
Thanks Joanne, this is a great idea!
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These Christmas ornaments are striking and fun to make!
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Another lovely Christmas ornament you can hand-make!
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These recycled book Christmas Wreaths are stunning and easy to make!
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Here is some interesting trivia about Christmas traditions.
Another lovely option for creating beautiful Christmas Wreaths.
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This fun quiz is all about well known Christmas Carols.
Thanks Kerry!
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Make you own Australian themed 12 Days of Christmas song to enjoy.
Thanks Joanne!
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Make your own unique Christmas polo shirts!
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These cute fabric angels are easy to make and very attractive to use on the table or mantel piece, windowsill, shelves or to hang from ceiling.
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Christmas and nativity themed colouring-in templates to decorate your facility!
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I bought an inflatable Santa costume off eBay for $31 and I can tell you it went down a treat.
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These cute Christmas tree decorations are suitable for table tops, windowsills or desks. You can also sit them on top of tv's and radio's. Video instructions included!
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Another lovely Christmas activity using recycled materials. Create these beautiful centerpieces with minimal effort! Video instructions included.
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This activity offers lots of fun and plenty of opportunities to reminisce. Find out what participants used to cook for Christmas.
Create these beautiful poinsettias for hanging or to use as table decorations at Christmas. Video instructions included!
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Suitable for 2 people, this simple game can alert the mind and entertain.
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The key to reducing stress at Christmas time is to get organised and plan ahead!
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The Day Club loves this, thought I would share.
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Lovely stained glass windows for any season.
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Here is a funny Christmas pantomime based on the well loved story, Sleeping Beauty. Putting on a Christmas pantomime for the elderly living in nursing homes is well worth the effort. The laughter and Christmas cheer it will spread is priceless!
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A fun winter themed quiz!
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Aussie Themed Jingle Bells
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Here is a Christmas themed Word Search.
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Decorate your facility or home with these beautiful evergreen balls.
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The next installment in the riddle series!
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Celebrate Volunteers Day with a lunch or High Tea in their honor. You can make it extra especial if you give them an inexpensive gift; preferably made by the residents.
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There is something special about sitting down comfortably with some popcorn to watch a good movie with a few friends during the festive season; especially if the movie makes you laugh, lifts your spirits and inspires you.
Aladdin and The Magic Lamp is a two act panto to entertain your clients and guests at Christmas. A perfect addition to a Christmas Party for the elderly in nursing homes!
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A list of some of the more unusual Christmas traditions from around the world...
Some interesting trivia about the history of mistletoe.
Have fun creating these lovely cork reindeer! Cork is considered biodegradable and renewable.
A simple and stunning Christmas activity!
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Spot the Differences is a brain game for children and adults alike. It involves identification of objects, spatial analysis as well as short-term memory.
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Despite being associated with children, Colour By Numbers activities can be beneficial to adults as well. Not to mention lots of fun!
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Some more word search fun for Christmas!
We used existing photographs of residents, copying to all the same size.
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Wire coat hanger covered with tinsel, attach pegs with ribbon.
An idea for those residents to hang their cards on.
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Here are some ideas for affordable gifts and Golden Carers homemade gifts.
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Use empty jars from the kitchen or use Mason jars to fill with the spices and sugar needed to make Gluhwein. Tie a little tag around the jar with the recipe for making Gluhwein. A stylish gift!
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Many years ago when I found myself with 3 celiac (coeliac) clients - all three with a ‘sweet tooth’ - I came across this recipe. Even those without special dietary requirements loved them.
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If you don’t already run a regular ‘Movie Night’ at your facility, try it out! All you need is a large screen, some good speakers, and of course popcorn and ice cream to add to the cinematic experience!
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Beautiful Christmas poster for printing!
Beautiful Christmas poster for printing!
You may have clients who will be able to teach others how to say Merry Christmas in their language.
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Gorgeous glitter snowflakes for Christmas! A lovely activity and decoration for nursing homes.
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This is a lovely activity to get into the spirit of Christmas! It will bring wonderful scent to the whole facility in the weeks leading up to Christmas!
Group art projects are a engaging activity for seniors in nursing homes. Creative group projects should have a theme; each client draws a picture (theme example: Christmas), and the final work is displayed as a group work of art.
These wreaths are stunning! They are so simple to make using pool noodles and Christmas balls. This is a wonderful and fun social activity for high functioning residents in nursing homes and assisted living facilities to enjoy.
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These spectacular photo Christmas trees are so simple to make and will attract clients, visitors and staff and generate lots of social interaction. This is a wonderful activity for seniors in nursing homes.
Kindness Advent Calendar
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Here is a funny adaptation of The Jungle Book story - a Christmas pantomime written in rhyme!
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A Winter themed Christmas word search!
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Make these gorgeous recycled snowmen to hang on the Christmas Tree!
A Summer themed Christmas word search
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A simple, Christmas Game for small groups.
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This idea was given as a valentines bag, could be used for any occasion.
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Be merry this Christmas with some silly one-liners and laugh-out-loud jokes!
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Some lovely Christmas themed poems to share!
Here is a short story about the birth of Jesus to share.
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A fun Christmas carols themed quiz to enjoy!
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Another beautiful Merry Christmas poster!
Make a snowball garland with embroidery thread and cotton balls.
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