{"id":3062,"date":"2016-02-08T09:09:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T14:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:17:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:17:01","slug":"how-to-decorate-your-senior-facility-for-st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/how-to-decorate-your-senior-facility-for-st-patricks-day\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Decorate Your Senior Facility For St. Patrick’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"St.Decorating for Saint Patrick’s Day can be fun, but also challenging when you have a large facility. Our friends at notjustbingo.com have picked 7 key places to decorate in your nursing facility, along with some suggestions for what types of decor to use.<\/p>\n

Activity Room.<\/strong> Turn your Activity Room, or your main event room, into party-central\u00a0by making it the centerpiece of all your St.\u00a0Patrick\u2019s Day decorations. About a week before the holiday, recruit volunteers to assist with adding fun decorations that will not get in the way of your day-to-day activities, like hanging decorations made from green crepe paper<\/a>.<\/strong> Hanging decorations are an easy way to add color to the room while making the room appear more festive.<\/p>\n

Facility Doors.<\/strong> Before St. Patrick\u2019s Day arrives, get your residents and staff in a buzz about the upcoming holiday by making sure to decorate the doors in your facility. Use green construction paper<\/strong><\/a> to cut out shamrocks\u00a0to add a touch of Irish magic to your residents\u2019 doors, and gold or green tissue paper<\/a><\/strong> to cover the doors of your facility\u2019s administrators. You can even get your administrators involved by having them compete to see who can design the most creative St.\u00a0Patrick\u2019s Day door. (Have your residents be the judges.)<\/p>\n

\"St.Facility\u2019s Hallways.<\/strong> Get residents to help you with decorating your facility\u2019s hallways by\u00a0hosting a fun hallway-decorating contest, in which residents help decorate their hallway for St.\u00a0Paddy\u2019s Day. Be sure to divide your St.\u00a0Patrick\u2019s Day decorations <\/strong><\/a>evenly \u2013 so that you don\u2019t appear biased! After the hallways are decorated, invite family members to stop by (preferably the weekend before St. Patrick\u2019s Day) to vote on the best decorated hallway.<\/p>\n

Facility Entrance.<\/strong> Use your facility\u2019s entrance as the place to provide just a few classic St.\u00a0Patrick\u2019s Day decorations, like a banner\u00a0or a pot of gold<\/a><\/strong>. (Having a pot of chocolate gold coins near the entrance is a great way to entice the grandkids to visit more.)<\/p>\n

Dining Room.<\/strong> Don\u2019t forget the Dining Room tables. If you are unable to make St.\u00a0Patrick\u2019s Day crafts to act as the tables\u2019 centerpieces, simply use ready-made shamrock centerpieces<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0instead. Overall, be sure to have some sort of centerpiece for your tables that will highlight your special St.\u00a0Patrick\u2019s Day meal, like a delicious corned beef and cabbage lunch.<\/p>\n

Windows.<\/strong> Make sure to decorate the rooms of your bedridden residents for the holiday. For instance, tie St Patrick’s Day balloons<\/a><\/strong> to their bedposts and use window markers<\/strong><\/a> to draw shamrocks on their windows. Don\u2019t forget to tape any St.\u00a0Patrick\u2019s Day cards or letters that they have received onto their bedroom walls.<\/p>\n

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Residents.<\/strong> Finally, don\u2019t forget to decorate your residents! Pass out St.\u00a0Patrick\u2019s Day shamrock necklaces<\/a><\/strong>, color their own hats<\/strong><\/a> with green fabric markers, and tiaras<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for residents to wear all day long!<\/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<\/em>\u00a0when they move to a nursing facility!<\/p>\n

Want even more ideas each month? Sign up for the\u00a0Not Just Bingo Membership<\/a> to 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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