Our moms, tots & babies meet at Specialty Care in Mississauga which is a long term care home. It is a great setting, they have a phenomenal team of recreation staff who work tirelessly to engage and support the residents in their care.
This month was our best program yet! We sang songs that all the residents as well as the kids knew - (ie. old school ), followed by some silly snowman songs since That's Silly is our theme of the month. All this fun was followed by some parachute play.
The residents, recreation staff and momstown Mamas got the parachute flying, while the kids ran around to the name game & after our balls from the popcorn game.
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| Parachute Fun |
After the singing was all done, we retired to the craft table, to make some snowmen, dressing them up with yarn hair and all kinds of other embellishments.
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| Snowman Crafts! |
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This looks like such a fun event! This would have been so heartwarming for the residents of this long term care home. I am trying to get this going here but no luck yet but I'll keep trying and reference this blog post if you don't mind!
ReplyDeleteSo wonderful, and we're starting to contact long-term care facilities to see if we set this up as well! It's great and so valuable for the moms, kids, residents and community - a super quadruple win. I'll be referencing this blogpost too!
ReplyDeleteOlder children's songs that we have records lullabies, and aims to help children sleep. And can be found on the lullabies in every human culture. It is believed that lullaby English term comes from the "if, if" or "No, no" sound made by mothers and nurses for children calm, and "by" or "bye-bye", either calm another voice, or the term for good night. And usually to the modern era lullabies recorded only in written sources by the way. Lullaby is recorded Roman nurses, Lalla, Lalla, Lalla, dormi delivery, milk delivery, scholium Persius and perhaps the oldest to survive.
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