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1st-Hawaiian Lei Day
History, Custom, Crafts & Much More
2nd-Dr. Benjamin Spock's Birthday
Born in 1903.
Gather all your residents & staffs
advice for raising children.
Type them up & print out pages. Include name of residents,
their ages or staff & department they work in.
Let residents make pages into books
You could include stick children drawings.
Hand out to young Mother's or sell them
as a fund raiser item.
4th-National Weather Observers' Day
Wind Chime Craft
Canadian Windsock Craft
Whirli-Gig Craft
CD Suncatcher Craft
Weather page
5th-Cinco De Mayo
Check Out My Year Round Idea's Page For
Cinco De Mayo Party Ideas
5th-Holocaust Remembrance Day
On Screen Movies & Images Of The Holocaust & More
6th-International No Diet Day
INDD
Ok? Break Out The Ice Cream Cart
7th-1st Stamp Collection Started
Let residentsa design a stamp for your facilty.
Post them on your bulletin board.
Have a contest for best design.
You could even have a stamper made up
and use your own official stamp on in-house mail.
Printable Blank Stamp Template
8th-No Sock Day
Take Off Those Socks & Make Some Of These Cute Puppets
Let Your residents bring them out to entertain
the little ones when they visit.
Here is a pattern I used in the past.
Items needed:
Socks (childrens or adult socks white or colored).
Styrofoam Ball for head
(size that will fit in end of sock).
Glue on eyes.
Yarn for hair.
No sew glue.
Felt for eyebrows nose and mouth.
Assorted felt hat's.
pvc pipe cut 3 inches high
( buy round enough size to fit in end of sock).
Dowel Rods (cut just a little longer than sock.
Place Styrofoam ball inside sock
all the way to the end.
This will be your puppets head
decorate face and hair as desired
and place hat on head and glue in place.
Push dowel rod into center of styrofoam ball inside of sock
This will be the handle for residents to hang on to.
Insert pv pipe piece in bottom of sock.
This is what resident will hold on to while moving dowel rod
up & down to make puppets move & dance.
When Day Care children visit the residents love to bring out their puppets
to dance to music for the children and
move them around for the childen during story time.
Sock Puppet Pattern
9th-National Teacher Day
Printable National Teachers Day Proclamation
Fill out this proclamation declaring
National Teachers Day At Your Facility.
Be sure to have your Resident Council President & Administrator Sign it.
Invite local teachers for an evening ceremony.
Let staff & residents present them with certificates of appreciation.
Serve snacks or sandwiches.
If your facility is large enough include the community.
Be sure to place the event in newspaper.
9th-First Newspaper Cartoon
In the USA in 1754.
Tons Of Cartoons
10th-Clean Up Your Room Day
Right In The Middle Of National Nursing Home Week?
I don't think so!
But it is time to spring clean my office.
Organize my files better.
Inventory my activity items.
Inventory my Monthly Decorations
And PITCH some things into file 13.
Below are some helpful sites
when you decide to organize.
If your like me there is always room for improvement.
Get Organized Now
Organize Your Office
Organize Your ofice Supply Cabinet
Organize Your office
11th-Twilight Zone Day
Twilight Zone Radio Drama's
Everything That Is Twilight Zone
12th-International Nurses Day
Celebrate International Nurses Day
12th-Kite Day
Kite Quilt Pattern(For The Quilter At Your Facility
Tons Of Free Kite Making Plans
13th-Tulip Day
Tulip Art Page
How To Plant 100 Tulips In 30 Minutes
Tulip Decoupage Box Craft
14th-Mother's Day
National Nursing Home Week Begins
See Above For Activity Ideas
14th-National Dance Like a Chicken Day
How To Do The Chicken Dance
Great Morning Exercise
1. Anyone who's not chicken, stand in a circle facing each other.
2. When the music starts, hold your hands out in front of you and open and close
them like a chicken beak four times.
3. Put your thumbs in your armpits and flap your wings four times.
4. Place your arms and hands like the tail feathers of a chicken
and wiggle down to the floor four times.
5. Clap four times.
6. Repeat steps 1-5 four times.
7 .After the fourth time take the hands of the people on either
side of you and everyone move in a circle.
8. When you get dizzy, switch directions.
9 .Repeat until the end of the music or until you fall on the floor.
15th-Peace Day
Peace Day
Lot's Of Peace Projects
15th-National Chocolate Chip Day
Chocolate Chip Cookies In A Jar Project
16th-First US Nickel Minted
In 1866, called the 'Shield Nickel'.
Lot's Of Projects
17th-First Kentucky Derby
In 1875.
Make Your Own Race Track Game
Items Needed:
Large Roll of Paper (wide enough for several lanes )
clear contact paper
Markers
white cardboard(for horses)
styrofoam cones or squares
(to use as holders to stick your horses in)
Pair Of Dice
Sciccors
Ruler
Roll out the paper and cut it the size
of one of your activity tables.
Measure and mark off lanes horses
will race in then add squares large enough
for horses to fit in
Draw Stables for each horse at The Start Gate and a finish line at the end.
In some of the boxes I put:
Horse Caught Cheating Back To The Stable
Horse Kicks In Gear Move Ahead 3 Space
Jockey Fell Off Back To The Stable
Jockey Just Gave Horse A Mountain Dew Move Ahead 4 Spaces
I then covered our track with clear contact paper.
Use Your Imagination
I drew and cut horses out of white cardboard
And Let the residents decorate and name their horse.
Some of the residents even kept their horses in their
room and brought them race day.
You can even make a standable finish line using dowel rods & styrofoam
Just roll dice to see who goes 1st and the race is on.
We had a large table so while others waited to race
they sat around the table and helped move the horses to the finish line.
Of course the winner gets in on the next race.
About The 1st Kentucky Derby
18th-Visit Your Relatives Day
Yeah I Know We All Have To Sometime
Here's A Fun Page About Relatives
That your residents will enjoy
Family I Do Love You! All Of You!
19th-Circus Day
(notice how this is the day after you visited your relatives?)
The Ringling Brother's Circus opened in 1884
Ton's Of Circus Sites & Ideas
20th-First Photo Sent From Space
In 1990 the Hubble space telescope sends
1st photograph's from space.
Nasa
This Is A Neat Site
Hubble Space Telescope Art Page & More
21st-Armed Forces Day
Great Day To Invite Soldier's From You Area
Who Are Home From Serving In Iraq, Afghanistan Etc.
to Your Facility & honor them
Serve a buffet style meal invite the Mayor to speak
And/Or have resident council President Speak
Give them all a little gift and certificate of Appreciation.
Let Them Know We Appredciate them
Call your VFW I am sure they can get you names and addresses.
22nd-Buy-A-Musical Instrument Day
Why Not Make Some?
Bottle Cap Rattle
Materials Needed:
Metal Bottle Caps
1-inch Thick Dowel
Nails
Instructions:
Instead of a dowel you can use an old broom stick!
Cut dowel or stick to whatever length you desire.
Take metal bottle caps and punch holes in the centers,
remove any cork or plastic from the bottle caps.
Then, nail two bottle caps, back to back, loosely to the dowel.
These are nailed onto the side of the dowel or broomstick very
close to the end. Add as many sets to the dowl as you desire,
atleast 4 sets work well.
To play your bottle cap rattle, gently tap the bottom (farthest away
from the bottle cap sets) on a tabletop, floor, or hand.
Finger Cymbals
Materials Needed:
2 Baby Food Jar Lids (or any 2 lids of the sme size)
1/4 - 1/2 inch wide elastic
Hammer
Nail
Instructions:
Cut two 4 inch pieces of elastic. Use the hammer and nail to punch
a hole in the center of each baby food jar lid. Push both ends of
a piece of elastic through each hole. Tie the ends of the elastic
into a knot. Know you can slip your finger cymbals onto your thumb
and pointer finger and make music!
Humming Flute
Materials Needed:
Cardboard Paper Towel or Toilet Paper Roll
Wax Paper
Rubber Band
Pencil
With a pencil, poke 3 or 4 holes in the cardboard roll about
1 inch apart. Cut a 4 inch square of wax paper. Secure the
wax paper over one end of the cardboard roll using the rubber
band. Your flute is now ready to play! You can also decorate
the tube before you put on the wax paper.
Jingle Bell Mitt
Materials Needed:
Felt
1/2 to 1 Inch Size Jingle Bells
Glue
Needle and Thread
Cut out 4 slightly over-sized mitten shapes out of felt.
Attach 2 of the felt pieces together with glue, or sew
them together, leaving the bottom open for the hand to
fit in. Repeat with the other 2 pieces of felt. Sew 4
Jingle Bells along the finger edge of each mitt. Slip the
mitts on and clap your hands together to make music!
23rd-Penny Day
Put & Take Game
Using a set of dice, on 1 die only, put writeable tape
on all sides. Write "put" or "take" on each square.
Pass out equal amounts of pennies to all residents playing
Plus have a "Penny Pot" in the middle of table.
Residents take turns rolling the dice.
The roller has to either put pennies from his pile
in the "Penny Pot" or take pennies from the "Penny Pot"
which ever the dice say .
Your other die tells how many pennies he gets to take or put.
Residents can either play an allotted amount of time
The winner being whoever has the most pennies.
Or play till everyone else is out of pennies.
Pennies can either be prizes or saved for the next game.
We usually passed out Penny candy as prizes.
When we played an allotted amount of time.
Candy was passed out according to how many pennies
each resident had left.
For instance 3 pennies left 1 piece of candy, 6 pennies 2 pieces etc.
This saved having to keep running to get pennies each week.
Sometimes we played with 3 dice and the 3rd die had
left, right & pot written in the squares.
Then they had to put or take the pennies from the pot,
the person on the left or the person
on the right. According to what they rolled.
The Guy's Love this game.
23rd-Victoria day-Canada
Celebrated in Canada on the Monday before May 24.
About Victoria Day
24th-First Morse Code Message Sent
Sent from Washington DC to Baltimore in 1844.
The Morris Code
Morse Code Puzzles
Type Up And Print Out Some Of Your Own Morse
Code Messages For Residents To Decipher.
25th-National Missing Children's Day
Missing Kids Site
Have A Police Officer Speak At Your Facilty
About Missing children.
See if there is anything your residents can
do by volunteer to help this program.
25th-National Tap Dance Day
Call Your Local Tap Dance School
& See If They Will Perform At Your Facility
Also Check Around
We have a group of Tap Dancers Here in Illinois
called "The Golden Girls"
They Entertain free and all are 65 or over.
We provided monies for gas and a small amount
to help with their costume.
26th-Blueberry Cheesecake Day
Blueberries 'n Cream Cheese Cake Recipe
27th-Golden Gate Bridge Opens
In 1937.
Golden Gate Art Page
Qustions & Answers About The Golden Gate Bridge
28th-Jim Thorpe's Birthday
Born in 1888.
Jim Thorpe Official Web Site
29th-John F. Kennedy's Birthday
Born in 1917.
JFK Humor
John F. Kennedy Art Page
30th-Ice Cream Freezer Patented
In 1848 by William Young.
What Else? Pull At That Ice Cream Maker
And Have Some Good Old Fashioned Ice Cream
Try This Easy Ice Cream In A Bag Recipe & More Ideas
31st-Memorial Day
Memorial Day Site
Smile! We Made It Another Month.
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