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What about using the Arm Chair travel and cover a different country each month?

Hi Dawn

Is a great idea

Hi Emma

Oh I used to do a theme because of the holidays

January is national activity directors month so that’s good for January or you could do some thing about the new year

February has Valentine’s Day and Presidents’ Day

March has St. Patrick’s Day And is the beginning of spring

April is National volunteers month

May has Mother’s Day and Memorial Day

June is the beginning of summer

July has July 4

August has the dog days of summer

September school starts

October has Columbus Day and Halloween

November has Thanksgiving

December has Christmas and Hanukkah

There are little known day is so might want to look at that as well

https://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/

Golden Carers also has plenty of ideas

https://www.goldencarers.com/calendar/august/

Hi from OZ.

We have just done a two week wedding theme. We decorated the facility with wedding dresses and men's suits from residents, families and staff all bringing in their garments. One dress was from 1929! We had photo and decoration displays. All our activities were themed around wedding stuff. Bingo we used fancy buttons, we conducted small group conversations centered around weddings, brain games and quizzes were wedding themed and at the end of the two weeks we had a full on wedding reception with a wedding cake, staff dressed in wedding dresses, residents dressed up in their good clothes, tables were set, music on, etc. Limitless as to what you can do. I follow the months of the year like what Susan above does.

January - Australia Day.

Feb - Valentines Day.

March - St Patrick's Day. Easter

April - Easter Anzac day in Australia.

May - Mothers Day

June - Queens Birthday holiday

July - Nothing on so this is when we do a theme such as our wedding day.

August - Daffodil Day; this is a fundraiser for the Cancer Society of Australia. We have a morning tea/luncheon/afternoon.

September - Start of Spring for us! We also have fathers Day.

October - Octoberfest. A German theme.

November - We have the Melbourne Cup horse race. Big on our calendar. We also have Remembrance Day (for the wars).

December - Christmas.

We also do color days some months, encouraging the staff and residents to dress in different colors. Hope this all helps. Regards, Sallie.