The following Key
will allow you to know which project descriptions belong to which of our TH
programs:
MH-Marion House LN-Layhill Nursing Home LH-Landow House GH-Grace House
HC-Sanctuary at Holy Cross BRG-Brooke Grove KN-Kensington Nursing Home STB-St. Barts BH-Byron House
BG-Brighton Gardens STR-St. Raphaels AAL-Asbury Assisted Living WH-Wilson House FH-Sandy Spring Friends House
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| Valentine Centerpiece Red paper plate, hot glue sweet gum balls, valentine picks, foam flower with battery tealight |
February Project Ideas
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. MH
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. LN
Theme-No
specific theme
Project-Dried
Flower arrangement-materials included dried baby’s breath, hydrangea, blue
statice, lavender, grasses, iris pods, eucalyptus. Also used spayed painted seed heads from
Lions Tail and spray painted yarrow (both taken dried from Derwood TH
beds). Containers were blue plastic
mushroom containers, filled with sahara floral foam. Ilex Crenata (Japanese
Holly) used to line perimeter of arrangement.
Ed
Talk/Activities-Talked about all of the plant materials LH
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
GH
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. BRG
Theme-Winter
Landscape
Project-
Winter Landscape dish garden. Used round
take-out container with oasis covered by moss.
Evergreens, small blue glass petals for the path, mirror ball (made with
marble atop golf tee), pine cones as bushes.
Can use spray snow. Also had
paper snowman pick.
Ed
Talk/Activities-Evergreens vs. deciduous trees, winter foods
for wildlife. KN
Theme-Fairy
Garden
Project-Rectangular
take-out container with oasis covered by green moss. Clothes-pin fairy (individual fake flower
petals for skirt and cut in half for wings, decorative tape or paper for top,
and face and hair drawn on with marker), plastic gem flowers, fairy house with
rose roof (spray painted toilet paper roll, colored cut foam for door, upside
down flower on top of the roll for roof with baby pom-pom ball attached to
flower stem as a whimsical accent), path, tiny clam shell on golf tee for a
fountain, stickers on toothpicks or tiny eraser shaped like butterflys or
flowers on toothpicks stuck in all around the garden.
Ed
Talk/Activities-Pollination and pollinators. Pollination
diagram and photos of pollinators shared.
KN
Theme-Chinese
New Year
Project-Decorated
our work table with chopsticks and other items from the Chinese grocery store
and made arrangements in Chinese food containers.
Ed
Talk/Activities-Talked about the Chinese calendar and found
out each participant’s birth year and what animal that corresponded to. Served a variety of Chinese candies and
cookies. STB/BH
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 meaning
of all different colors of roses. Read
several poems about roses and Valentines day.
STR
Theme-Valentines
Day
Project-Simple
Valentines Day arrangement
Ed
Talk/Activities-Talked about Chocolate. AAL
Theme-Ferns,
Bulbs and New Zealand
Project-Pressed
Ferns and flower petals made into covers for purchased notebooks.
Ed
Talk/Activities-Discussed New Zealand’s natural plant
history focusing on their amazing ferns and the huge size of some of these
ferns using a full size laminated fold out paper model of an enormous fern. FH
