What are some craft ideas that young children can make to give to people in a nursing home? It has to be something useful, like a picture frame or something, that wouldn’t just clutter up space. We are planning on giving the crafts to the home on Halloween, so something themed would be cute too.
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You might want to check out some of the things that have been suggested for those in nursing homes to make *for themselves* since they’d often be things that could be easily made by children too.
The best ideas would also be things that those in nursing homes could actually use, as you mentioned.
So check out some of these ideas:
http://www.google.com/search?q=nursing+home+craft
http://www.google.com/search?q=gifts+nursing+home (if actual lessons aren’t included in those links, just google something like:
…name of the item to be made
…kids + craft
to bring up suitable tutorials)
You might also want to check out these two pages at my site for more info on things that seniors or those with physical limitations could make (or receive), as well as for lots of Halloween theme ideas:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/disabilities.htm
…click on “Seniors, Assisted Living, Stroke, etc”
http://glassattic.com/polymer/Halloween_etc.htm
…click on any category
HTH,
Diane B.
What about bookmarks they would be easy to make a piece of card and they could put peel offs on with the halloween theme,draw a picture.
I work in a setting like this. I see too many residents that don’t have family visit them for one reason or another. Each bed has a board on the wall that they can hang things from, like cards and pictures. A simple art project would really be lovely for the patients that don’t have anything hanging on the board.
darn I was gonna say a picture frame
haha
bookmarks are cute and useful, or they could make like homemade dice or dominoes or something out of clay or paper maybe (I dunno), not sure how much nursing home people gamble but they might