{"id":17133,"date":"2019-02-11T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/?p=17133"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:14:16","slug":"international-womens-day-activities-senior-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/international-womens-day-activities-senior-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women\u2019s Day Activities for Senior Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"

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International Women\u2019s Day is March 8th! Help your senior residents celebrate this annual observance with a variety of fun activities that celebrate, remember, and assist women.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Women<\/strong><\/p>\n

Celebrate the women in your nursing facility by first decorating your facility with lots of balloons. Choose purple balloons <\/a><\/strong>and green balloons<\/strong><\/a> (the official colors for the observance) to display. In the morning, recruit residents to help you blow up the balloons and scattered them throughout your facility for the day.<\/p>\n

As a fun afternoon activity, host an entertaining tea party that is just for the ladies. Coordinate with Dining Services to serve special tea sandwiches and cookies for the women to enjoy with their tea. Before the party, encourage residents to dress up for this annual event. Then at the tea party, present each of the ladies with a rose pin<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that they can wear for the day.<\/p>\n

Remembering Women<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition, during the day provide interesting activities that allow your residents to remember the great women in their lives and their past accomplishments. For instance, provide residents with journals<\/a><\/strong> that they can decorate before using the journals to write about the women who were influential in their lives.<\/p>\n

For the activity, simply provide residents with markers to color the journals, and then encourage them to write a few stories about those women in their journals. In fact, ask the female residents to share a few personal stories about themselves in their journals so that they can pass along the personal stories to their loved ones.<\/p>\n

Likewise, if your residents are socially conscious, then consider hosting a Women\u2019s March in your facility, where residents \u2013 both men and women \u2013 can make posters<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and signs before marching through your hallways for a peaceful protest march. After the march, host a discussion group to get residents talking about women\u2019s rights and how far they have come.<\/p>\n

Assisting Women<\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget to include activities that allow your residents to help other women. For example, show residents how to make no-sew fleece blankets and teddy bears<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>that can be donated to a local women\u2019s and children\u2019s shelter.<\/p>\n

Additionally, have the ladies in your facility make their own red hats<\/a><\/strong> so that you can host a monthly Red Hat Ladies Club Meeting, where the ladies of your facility get to bond with one another and socialize. You can also use a Red Hat Event Easy Pack<\/a><\/strong> to double the fun! Or simply purchase hats that are red<\/strong><\/a> with a purple ribbon!<\/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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