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Since February is a month filled with heart themed holidays, be sure to plan fun craft activities for your residents that allow them to make heart crafts. Try out one of these 6 simple crafts for your residents this month!<\/p>\n

Heart Plaques for Wall Decoration<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assist residents with crafting wood heart plaques<\/a><\/strong> to create wall d\u00e9cor for their apartments. The pack comes with 24 laser-cut wood heart plaques that can be decorated with paint or markers. Encourage residents to hang their finished projects on the walls or on door knobs with string or jute in their apartments as decoration.<\/p>\n

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Stained Glass Hearts for Window Decoration<\/strong><\/p>\n

Make stained glass hearts<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>with residents that they can hang in their windows as fun suncatchers. Use paint and ribbon to decorate the hearts.<\/p>\n

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Heart Mobiles for Valentine D\u00e9cor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Encourage residents to help you decorate for the Valentine\u2019s Day holiday by making heart mobiles<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that you can hang throughout your Activity Room. For the mobiles, pass out markers<\/a>, glitter<\/a>, and gemstones<\/a>\u00a0for residents to decorate just in time for your Valentine\u2019s Day festivities.<\/p>\n

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Heart-Shaped Notes for Valentine\u2019s Gifts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Provide residents with heart-shaped note holders<\/a><\/strong> to paint and include a heartfelt note, or decorate heart pins<\/a><\/strong> as gifts for their grandchildren for Valentine\u2019s Day. Supply residents with paint, markers, and glitter pens<\/a> to create fun and decorative heart crafts that can become a keepsake for their grandchildren.<\/p>\n

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Heart Ornaments for a Heart Tree<\/strong><\/p>\n

Help residents make heart ornaments<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that you can use to create a heart tree in your facility for this National Heart Month. For the project, pass out markers and paint for residents to decorate the hearts. Then set up a small tree (or a collection of branches from outside that can be spray-painted white) and hang the finished ornaments.<\/p>\n

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COMING SOON!<\/p>\n

Beaded Hearts for Door Decorations<\/strong><\/p>\n

Invite residents to assemble beaded hearts<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to place on their apartment doors for this National Heart Month. To make the beaded hearts, simply thread the beads onto the pipe cleaners before finishing with the hemp bows. Provide residents with hooks for them to place their finished hearts as beautiful decoration on their doors.<\/p>\n

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About Not Just Bingo:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Not Just Bingo<\/a>\u00a0is 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 \u201cbeyond bingo.\u201d Not Just Bingo feels\u00a0privileged to help activity directors better the living experiences of their residents while demonstrating that a senior\u2019s quality of life can actually\u00a0improve<\/i>\u00a0when they move to a nursing facility!<\/p>\n

Want even more ideas each month? Visit\u00a0www.notjustbingo.com<\/a>\u00a0for how-to activity ideas, monthly newsletters, and daily holiday ideas. You can also sign up for the\u00a0Notjustbingo Membership<\/a>\u00a0to receive specialized activity ideas to keep your residents and staff engaged, active, and having fun!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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