Celebrate Sundays in your nursing facility as a day full of fun spiritual activities that help residents relax and enjoy. Here are 9 resources from notjustbingo to add to your Sundays for spiritual activities for your residents.

1. Sunday School Trivia

On Sundays, host a weekly Bible trivia contest. Encourage competition among the residents by having different groups compete against one another, like the men vs. the women, or the 1st floor vs. the 2nd floor. Pass out religious cross silicone bracelets as prizes for the participants.

2. Wooden Mezuzahs

To be ready for Passover, invite your Jewish residents to decorate their own wooden mezuzahs to place over their doors for the holiday. For the activity, simply provide residents with paint to decorate their mezuzahs.

3. Mandala Quote Collages

Assist residents with making their own mandala quote collages that can be hung in their rooms. For the project, provide residents with the mandalas to color in with markers before cutting out the faith-based quotes and attaching them to the finished mandalas. Hang any extra quote collages on a wall in your facility for everyone to enjoy.

4. Welcome Greetings

Supply residents with “Bless this Home” plaques that residents can decorate with markers before hanging on their doors or gifting to a loved one. Use the jute that comes with the craft kit for hanging.

5. Inspirational Velvet Art

Invite residents to use markers to fill in inspirational velvet art that can be used as decoration for your residents’ rooms. Encourage residents to pick the uplifting message that inspires them the most – faith, believe, hope, or  blessed.

6. Cross Pendants

Set up a Sunday afternoon crafts activity for residents to make cross necklaces. Encourage residents to be creative in choosing colorful beads to make the crosses for the necklaces. Then donate the finished projects to a local Sunday school class or start a fundraiser.

7. Bible Story Paintings

Invite the grandchildren to assist residents with painting Bible story paintings. For the easy activity, simply dip paintbrushes into water and apply the water to the paintings to reveal the beautiful paint colors. Afterwards, encourage residents to explain the Bible story that is depicted in the paintings to their grandchildren.

8. Hymn Sing Along

Host a weekly hymn sing along for residents, where they can sing along to the hymnal CD using large-print lyric books. Invite your weekly attendees to participate in a Sunday Choir activity once or twice a year, where you host a Sunday choir performance for residents to sing for their family members.

9. Nature Sounds

Help residents meditate to the calming sounds of nature by playing a nature DVD in your Activity Room. Encourage residents to stop in to sit and relax while watching the video and listening to the peaceful sounds of nature.

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About Not Just Bingo:

Not Just Bingo is an online resource of fun, senior activity ideas for activity professionals of nursing homes and assisted living facilities. They have been providing fun activity ideas online since 2009, and continue to assist activity professionals across the country by creating meaningful and engaging activity ideas for their residents that go “beyond bingo.” Not Just Bingo feels privileged to help activity directors better the living experiences of their residents while demonstrating that a senior’s quality of life can actually improve when they move to a nursing facility!

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