Ideas for serving those in a rest home
by Melanie Day
  


CRAFTS YOU COULD MAKE FOR THEM:

Food basket
Make wreaths that they can put on their doors, holiday necklaces/ties, make paper snowflakes to decorate their rooms
Cookies or any kind of goodies
Flower arrangement (real or artificial)
Little children could draw pictures for them to hang up
 Make a countdown Christmas chain
Do the 12 days of Christmas using a nativity set


GIFT IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS:

Give them a pair of warm socks or a lap blanket
New pen and stationary set
Postage stamps
Slippers
Snacks for their room: cookies, raisins, granola bars, juice boxes, etc.
Books
Air fresheners for their rooms since most don't allow candles in a rest home
Toothbrush/Toothpaste
Deodorant

THINGS TO DO WITH THE ELDERLY:

Do a craft project together
 Play a musical instrument for them.
Interview them and offer to type up their comments for their family history.
 Play Christmas Bingo  
 Offer to read to them
 Give them a hand manicure.  For the ladies, paint their nails.  For gentlemen, give them a hand massage with lotion.
 

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   November 16,  2006

 

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