Hi Karen and Kerry, I too am in the UK. For St.David's day I get daffodils made up in craft session beforehand so they can be displayed,do a quiz on Wales, I have a "Famous David's quiz' ( there are quite a lot if you research it), I have a jumbled up black and white picture of twenty things that begin with D. Kind of on top of each other so they have to turn the paper this way and that. Finally,get out the CDs with Welsh singers. Carol
Hi everyone Re.St.Patricks day I put up shamrock bunting,do a white board word game 'All words have to have IRE in them',another:make a GREEN list,have adult colouring page of leprechaun, I read out Irish jokes and do a short quiz about Ireland and play Irish music. I normally have a room of about nine people all of which are immobile. Keep the wonderful work going on this site Carol
I do this and call it Namaste Care(Google it if you are not familiar with it) I put on quiet classical music,light some oil burners usually with lavender essential oil,hang fairy lights around and dim the lights. I offer Ponds face cream(it's been around for years and most recognise the smell.) Then we offer manicure and finish with lavender hand cream. For those who are fairly unresponsive, I offer a Swatch of different textured materials,glass people's in nice colours,marbles and those beautifully coloured small lizard type animals. I think they are stuffed with sand. You do have to watch the no-one puts the hard thing in their mouth.
Great site,so glad I found you. Is there any way we could go to the forum and carry on where we left off instead of having to travel through all the previous posts.
I would like to thank you all for everything you've done to help people like us, giving us the new ideas and confidence to carry on doing what we do. As you must be aware it's not the easiest job in the world, especially trying to get a smile out of someone. I wish you all the possible good wishes for the future and do hope you will continue for many years to come.
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For St.David's day I get daffodils made up in craft session beforehand so they can be displayed,do a quiz on Wales, I have a "Famous David's quiz' ( there are quite a lot if you research it), I have a jumbled up black and white picture of twenty things that begin with D. Kind of on top of each other so they have to turn the paper this way and that. Finally,get out the CDs with Welsh singers.
Carol