While decorating for Christmas is fun, it’s even better when you get to make the decorations. To brighten up rooms and hallways for the holiday season, have seniors make some of these Santa door decorations: Santa Wreath A wreath is already perfect for Christmas, but a Santa wreath door decoration is an easy and whimsical […]
A List of Nursing Home Christmas Games, Crafts, Trivia and More
Christmas is always a fun time of year and always looked forward to. Festive sights, sounds and smells that aren’t around the rest of the year. The lights are so pretty when most of winter is in the dark and the hot cider and cocoa, logs burning in the fireplace and scarves and mittens are […]
6 Fun Christmas Craft Ideas for Nursing Homes
CD Suncatcher Glue two old cd’s together with christmas ribbon or beaded thread running through the middle, then using glue that dries clear add a ring of small flat beads around the outside. You can make this as simple or difficult as you wish. Hang on a tree or by a window and watch it […]
Make a Tabletop Zen Garden
How to Make a Tabletop Zen Garden A Zen Garden is a creative tool to calm anxiety, quiet the mind and relax an individual to relieve stress and be open to more creative and joyful thoughts. It can be meditative as well. Not in a New Age sense either. It can simply slow one’s mind […]
Make Homemade Cold Porcelain Sculpting Clay
Clay crafts are a wonderful way to get senior citizen’s, with limited dexterity, to exercise their fingers and hands. Below are 3 types of clay you can make. A Cold Porcelain clay, another type of no-bake clay, and also a polymer clay. Make Homemade Cold Porcelain Sculpting Clay does not need to be fired can […]