Valentine's Day

 Valentine's Day

                                      Asbury Assisted Living February 2024

Theme:                       Valentine’s Day

Materials:                    Red plastic bowl with oasis.   

                                    Greens from our gardens.

                                    Red, pink & white carnations & baby’s breath                                                             were purchased.

                                    Twigs from our garden with red hearts hanging                                                           from them.

                                    Red & pink hearts on pics as embellishments.

Discussion/

Activity:                  Valentine crossword puzzle

                                   Friends House  2025    Valentine's Day

Decoupage using white 4inch pot, floral napkin and Mod Podge, foam sponges 

House plant - pothos or marantha (prayer plant), artificial rose. 

Education - talked about care of house plants.

Songs: Can't Help Falling in Love with You, Puppy Love, Glory of Love, That's Amore

                                                                    Valentine's Day

Red paper plate, hot glued sweet gum balls, heart picks, foam flower with battery tea light.

                                                                                Ideas:

Theme-Valentines Day

Project-Simple Valentines Day arrangement

Ed Talk/Activities-Talked about Chocolate.  Asbury Assisted Living

Theme-Valentines Day-“Loving Tree”

Project-Made an arrangement in red plastic Valentines 5” buckets from the Dollar Tree. Put dried Crepe Myrtle branch with dried blossom cups still attached (spray painted red) as the centerpiece.  Put red, pink, and white/red carnations, greens and a few baby pink roses into wet oasis surrounding the base of the “Tree”.  Added in a pink or red glitter heart on a long pick. Gave the residents foam hearts to which we had attached a ribbon loop for them to hang on the “tree” branches with initials written on them representing all of the people that they love(d).

Ed Talk/Activities-Presented a rather long program, “Love, Murder, and Roses.”  Discussed and showed photos about committing crepe murder on crepe myrtle trees and how they look in their natural state in all seasons and then discussed the symbolism and mea

ning of all different colors of roses.  Read several poems about roses and Valentines day.  St Raphael's

 

Theme-Valentines Day

Project-Bouquet with red roses, baby’s breath, greens in a glass container.

Ed Talk/Activities-Talked about different varieties of roses and the symbolism of colors (red meaning love etc.).  Made a Valentines envelope for each participant using recycled calendar pictures with a Valentines card from the MG’s to each participant and extra unsigned Valentines cards for the residents to give to others.  Brooke Grove

 Theme-Valentines Day

Project-An Arrangement of fresh greens and purchased flowers in a decorative mug.

Ed Talk/Activities-The history and traditions of Valentines Day  Grace House

 Theme-Valentines Day and Flowers

Project-Valentines day flowers arranged in a red flute with a heart shaped base.

Ed Talk/Activities-History of Valentines Day.  Flowers that convey the sentiment of love(some used in arrangement). Display and discuss pictures and samples of heart shaped leaves.  Marion House

 

Theme-Valentines Day

Project-Valentines Sachet of potpourri

Ed Talk/Activities-Defined Potpourri.  Large variety of potpourri ingredients displayed as examples and for residents to use.  Fixatives defined and examples used.  Explained how potpourri oils are obtained from plants.  Layhill Nursing Home

 

  

Easter Projects

                                                                                Easter Bunny

Covered soup can in white paper with bunny face drawn. Used foam core cut to size for the hat and ears.

(Lisa Diamond has the templates for this project)

IDEAS

 

Theme-Begonia Plants for Easter

Project-Potting up begonia plants in an Easter basket

Ed Talk/Activities-Eggs as a symbol of new life, facts about camellia and euphorbia flowers (used in orchid tubes), legends of Easter celebrations (bunny with carrot, jelly beans in plastic eggs, Easter baskets) Marion House

 

Theme-Easter

Project-Easter Basket with flowers, rabbit and eggs.  Used a Doller Tree 4” round “crystal” plastic bowl spray painted gold.  Make handle by laminating gold metallic wrapping paper cut into half inch wide strip hot glued onto bowl.  Filled bowl with flowers, put laminated bunny pick and styrofoam eggs into bowl. 

Ed Talk/Activities-Spring Ephemerals. Brought in daffodils, pussy willow and other spring plants to show the group.  Can cut a bulb in half to show layers.  Layhill Nursing

Theme-Rabbit Head Arrangement

Project-Used a can covered in white construction paper with a bunny face on it with a pink foam circular ring set on top as a hat through which an arrangement of daisies and flowers emerge.  Bunny ears on long picks appeared through the flowers.

Ed Talk/Activities-Discussed rabbits.  Asbury Assisted Living

  Theme-Easter

Project-Easter Basket with flowers, rabbit and eggs.  Used a Doller Tree 4” round “crystal” plastic bowl spray painted gold.  Make handle by laminating gold metallic wrapping paper cut into half inch wide strip hot glued onto bowl.  Filled bowl with flowers, put laminated bunny pick and styrofoam eggs into bowl. 

Ed Talk/Activities-Spring Ephemerals. Brought in daffodils, pussy willow and other spring plants to show the group.  Can cut a bulb in half to show layers.  Layhill Nursing

 

Patriotic Projects

               Patriotic - July 4th, Memorial Day, Flag Day, Veterans Day

Spring Projects

Spring Projects

 

Friends House

Daffodil bulb in soil with white rocks, artificial daffodil and bird pick

 

Asbury

Theme:  Mardi Gras

Green container with oasis. 

Greens from our gardens.  

Store bought mardi-gras-colored flowers.  

Embellished with mask, feathers and beads. 

Theme: Orchids

Education: types of orchids, natural habitat, ikebana arrangement

container with oasis, moss, eucalyptus, pussy willow, magnolia leaves, artificial orchid

 

Here’s a photo of a flower arrangement one of the residents did at Asbury yesterday.    And a description of our project…

 

Theme:         Birds

Container:   Round green plastic container with oasis

Plants:          Spring flowers and greens from our gardens

Picks:            Photos of birds laminated on a pick

Discussion:   A “bird matching” game.   On top of the page, there were 8 bird photos.  Down below were the names of 8 birds.  The residents matched the photo with the correct description.  

                                          Spring flowers