Programming Ideas: National Activity Professionals Week

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Courtesy of National Association of Activity Professionals

   

Educate and show everyone in your homes how your activity department

provides Oceans of possibilities for your Elders.

Programming Ideas:

Activities: “Oceans of Possibilities”

Educate and show everyone in your homes how your activity department

provides Oceans of possibilities for your Elders.

The possibilities of keeping traditions.

_ Talk with the Elders about family traditions and your facility

traditions

The possibility to win.

_ Have a special Bingo using pictures or words relating to

activities.

The possibility of making friends.

_ Have a tea,

_ create a “Getting to know you Bingo” (see example)

_ have a staff / Elder scavenger hunt (using activity items as the

items to find)

_ Starting a Post Card Pen Pal Program to write to Nursing Home

Elders in other cities.

The possibility to socialize and try new things.

_ host a special dinner party serving different kinds of food

_ Host a happy hour with different types of drinks

The possibility to serve others.

_ make Sandwiches for a local shelter

_ have a food drive (this time of year is usually a lean time for food

banks so they will appreciate even more)

The possibility to explore past interest and be creative.

_ Crafts

_ Creative Writing

The possibility to stay in touch with the community.

_ Plan out trips

The possibility to LET GO.

_ Be a kid again for just an hour or so ( see attached).

_ show off your talent & lack of at Karaoke.

The possibility to learn something new.

_ Learn how to write and say your name in another language

o Chinese http://www.chinesetools.eu/names/

o Hawaiian http://hawaiiannames.hisurf.com/

Just google “my name in (what ever language) then print

it and make it a special sign for them to keep.

_ Show them the world wide web.

“Oceans”

The Tropics

_ enjoy some Kona Coffee, Hawaii’s “Gold”

_ Use the web to learn elders’ names in Hawaiian and a few

Hawaiian phrases.

_ Learn the meaning of the different Hula Dances by the way they

use their hands

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110077/dance.htm

_ Dinner Party. adventure into Hawaiian Dishes

_ Try your hand at Pineapple bowling with a Coconut bowling ball

_ Have a Parrot Head Day. Play Jimmy Buffett, have “Changes in

Attitude” discussion group, Cheeseburgers in Paradise for lunch

and Margaritaville for Happy Hour

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_ Take photos and make your own Hawaiian Post Card

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http://www.hawaiiandays.com/HDC/categories/cat_postcards.htm

has vintage postcards, and may grant permission (they did for me)

for you to copy and use their photos for backgrounds. Then cut and

paste resident photos on the computer (looks best) or by hand to

make the postcards

_ Have a luau with BBQ, have staff dress tropical.

_ Use fruit of the Islands, and make individual Pineapple

Shortcakes: twinkies, vanilla pudding, pineapple and whipped

cream

_ Don’t forget the Drinks of the Islands happy hour !!