{"id":37433,"date":"2024-12-06T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/?p=37433"},"modified":"2025-02-14T13:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T18:02:31","slug":"how-to-celebrate-the-chinese-new-year-year-of-the-snake-in-your-senior-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/how-to-celebrate-the-chinese-new-year-year-of-the-snake-in-your-senior-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Celebrate the Chinese New Year \u2013 \u201cYear of the Snake\u201d \u2013 in Your Senior Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Help your residents celebrate the Chinese New Year on January 29 in your facility by providing fun crafts and activities that relate to the 2025 zodiac \u2013 the snake. Add a few of these ideas to help you and your residents enjoy the lunar year:<\/p>\n

Making Lanterns<\/h2>\n

Provide residents with paper lanterns that they can decorate for the Chinese New Year. Supply residents with red markers<\/a><\/strong> and glitter<\/a> <\/strong>to decorate the lanterns. In fact, help residents add a bit of sparkle to the lanterns using adhesive gemstones<\/a> <\/strong>or even iridescent gems<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Once the lanterns have been decorated, hang them throughout your facility alongside Chinese New Year decorations<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Decorating Snakes<\/h2>\n

Assist residents with getting over any fears of snakes that they may have as you recruit them to help you decorate wooden snakes<\/a><\/strong> that actually wiggle with just a flick of your wrist. Provide residents with the kit\u2019s paint to decorate their snakes by painting their snake in a solid background color before adding fun details with other paint colors. Once the snakes have been decorated, host a Wooden Snake Contest, and ask your facility\u2019s administrators to judge the best decorated snake. Be sure to create a Chinese New Year goody bag of chocolate coins<\/a><\/strong> to award the winner.<\/p>\n

Once the contest is over, encourage residents to donate their snakes to a local elementary school class or to gift to a grandchild.<\/p>\n

Playing Snakes and Ladders<\/h2>\n

Set out several Snakes and Ladders board games<\/a> <\/strong>throughout your facility, and encourage passersby to stop and play the fun game. Simply set up small playing areas (a small table and two chairs) throughout your facility for residents and even staff members to play a quick game.<\/p>\n

If you have lots of residents who enjoy playing board games, then host a fun Snakes and Ladders Tournament for your residents in your Activity Room. Place a game at each of the tables, and pair residents together to play against one another. Then have the winners of those games play one another. Keep having the winners play one another until there is just one player left \u2013 your 2024 Snakes and Ladders Tournament Champion.<\/p>\n

Making Garden Bugs<\/h2>\n

Invite residents to help you get a head start on your spring garden by helping you create garden bug mosaics<\/a><\/strong>, that include garden bugs, butterflies, and snakes. Assist residents with gluing the tiles to the bugs before grouting with the kit\u2019s mortar. Once dry, save the mosaics to add to your facility\u2019s outdoor garden this spring.<\/p>\n

Assembling Dragons<\/h2>\n

A Chinese New Year celebration is not complete without recognizing the iconic character that we all associate with the Chinese New Year \u2013 the dragon. As an activity, assist residents with decorating chipboard dragons<\/a><\/strong> that can be donated as a fun gift to a local elementary school class. For the activity, first have residents assemble the dragons by punching out the pieces before affixing them with the kit\u2019s paper brads. Then have residents use paint and paint markers to decorate the dragons.<\/p>\n

Once the dragons have been assembled, arrange to drop off the finished dragons as gifts to a local elementary school class. (Consider adopting a local elementary school class, where your residents can make crafts to donate to the class throughout the year. Just be sure to make enough dragons so that each student gets one.)<\/p>\n

Find more ideas from Notjustbingo\u00a0on the S&S blog here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Not Just Bingo<\/a>\u00a0is an online resource of fun, senior activity ideas for activity professionals of 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 privileged to help activity directors better the living experiences of their residents while demonstrating that a senior\u2019s quality of life can actually improve when they move to a senior 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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