Visit A Farm & Feed the Animals
Spot To Fly A Kite
Visit A Zoo
Visit A Flower Nursery
Bird Watching
To The Movies
The Library
Ballroom Dance
Play Mini Golf
Craft Shows
Outside Cloud Watching (Have residents take turns telling what they see in the clouds.)
Crafts
Spring Has Sprung Placemats
Design you own springtime or anytime place mat. They are great for any occasion.
This project is rated EASY to do.
What You Need
a.. Clear Con-Tact Paper (self-adhesive vinyl shelf paper)
b.. Scissors
c.. Construction Paper
d.. Magazines
e.. Glue Stick
How To Make It
1.. Cut out an 18" x 11" piece of clear Con-Tact paper. Peel off the backing and lay the Con-Tact paper on a flat surface, sticky side up.
2.. Cut random shapes from construction paper to use as a background. Press them to the Con-Tact paper, face up, leaving a border along each edge.
3.. Cut out letters from magazines in the words "SPRING HAS SPRUNG", "HAPPY BIRTHDAY", or choose other words to express the occasion. Use a glue stick to
paste the letters on top of the colored paper. Add your own pictures cut from magazines. For spring, use flowers and pretty pastels, or choose other pictures to express the occasion.
4.. Cover it all by carefully placing a second 18" x 11" sheet of clear Con-Tact paper sticky side down over the first. Trim around the border for a neat look.
Rain and Rainbow Collage
Look in a magazine or newspaper for pictures of rain, or rainbows, cut them out, and let your residents glue them onto a piece of paper for a collage.
Rainbow Eggshell Collage
Use food coloring to color crushed eggshells a few different colors. (You can use eggshells from eggs you have used, there is no need to hard boil these egg shells.) Let your residents glue the eggshells to a piece a paper after the dye has dried. You could also make Spring Flowers this way.
PAPERPLATE MAY BASKET
What You Need
* Flimsy paper plate
* Construction paper, optional
* Scissors, optional
* Markers or paint, optional
* Glue, optional
* Stapler or tape
* Hole punch
* Ribbon or yarn
How To Make It
1. Decorate the plate using markers, paint, construction paper, or whatever you wish. Let dry.
2. Curl the paper plate into a cone shape. Tape or staple in place.
3. Hole punch two holes in the top of the container, directly across fro each other.
4.Attach a piece of ribbon or yarn so residents can hang the basket on the door handle of other residents.
5.Add Artificial Flowers or flowers you have made.
EASY BIRD FEEDER
An easy craft to make, and fun to watch the birds eat!
This project is rated VERY EASY to do.
a.. Slice of white bread
b.. Cookie cutter
c.. Peanut Butter
d.. Knife to spread peanut butter (plastic is fine!)
e.. Yarn
f.. Bird seed on a plate
How To Make It
1.. Take the cookie cutter and punch a nice shape out of the white bread.
2.. You can save the scraps for breadcrumbs or make ones with the center cut out.
3.. Punch a hole into it for yarn to hang, thread the yarn through.
4.. Let the white bread shapes sit out for a day or two so that they become firm. This will make it easier to spread the peanut butter.
5.. Spread peanut butter on the bread, then turn over and push into bird seed. You can turn it over and put peanut butter and seed on the other side, too, if you wish.
6.. Hang outside on a tree for the birds to eat.
RAIN STICKS
Take a paper towel tube and cover one end with tape or contact paper. Potato Chip cans may be used also. Fill it up with styrofoam peanuts (that annoying packing material) add a couple of tablespoons of dry rice and cover the other end. Decorate with yarn feathers
what ever. When turned over the rice falls slowly from one end to the other making a sound like falling rain.
PLANTING
Collect the plastic containers that hold take-out salads. You get them at McDonalds, the deli, etc.
Fill them with dirt and have residents select which type of flower seeds to plant. The men might like to start vegetable plants. When you put the lid on the container, viola!, you have a little, instant greenhouse for each resident. Since the top is clear, you can peek and see the progress of the seedlings.
Pinwheel
Start with a 9" square of construction paper. Mark the center with an circle.
Using a ruler, draw a line from each corner to the center. Have the residents
decorate them with markers, sequins,glitter & stickers. Carefully
cut on the lines to within a 1/2 of the center.
Bend the four corners toward the center and secure with
a straight pin fastened into the eraser of a pencil. Bend the pin down and
cover with tape for safety.
Go Outside & let the wind spin your pinwheels.
Games
Cloud match:
Cut sets of cloud shapes from white and black(shadow) construction paper. Make 1 set per resident First resident to match clouds with their shadows wins.
What Do I Smell ?
Collect several plastic margarine tubs. Poke small holes in the lid of each tub.
Place a different fragrant item in each tub. (peanut butter, lemons, cinnamon, pickle juice are just a few possibilities)
Cut or draw a picture of each item and cover the pictures with clear contact (laminate) mount the pictures on construction paper.
Let your residents smell the tubs and try to match them to the pictures of the items they contain.
Whoever gets the most smells right wins.
Spring Bingo
Draw several large flowesr (you can add a stem and leaves if you want. These are going to be your Bingo Calling Cards Color each Flower a different color. Make bingo cards with different colored petal in each square. Hold up your flower and have residents cover the petal square that matches the flowers color. Make as many flower different color calling cards as you like. You can have as many squares on Bingo Cards as you like. Laminate everything. Viola ! A Cheap Spring Bingo game.
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