With Holy Week (April 2-8) and Purim (March 6-7) during the Spring months, activity directors may be looking for some ideas to use at their nursing facility. Here are a few ideas from notjustbingo.com for incorporating religious themed activities into your calendar.
Encourage your Craft Club to use tissue paper and glue to make beautiful stained glass crafts. Use the finished pieces as works of art by taping them on a wall in your Activity Room. They can also use premade stained glass window clings for a simpler project.
Invite your Beading Club to string beads into the shape of crosses. Consider making the beaded necklaces as Easter gifts to those who attend Easter Sunday services in your facility.
Recruit your facility’s Men Club to use tiles and glue to create colorful mosaic crosses that can be hung on the doors of your religious residents.
For your Jewish residents who celebrate the Purim festival, assist them with making wood mezuzahs to attach to their doorposts. Also,as an intergenerational craft, invite your residents to decorate Purim masks with their grandkids.
Finally, schedule a mess-free craft to do in the rooms of your bedridden residents like religious flags. Attach self-adhesive letters and crosses to the flags before hanging them in your residents’ rooms for the holiday.
Find more ideas from Notjustbingo on the S&S blog here.
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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