St. Patrick’s Day is fun to celebrate with anything green! At our Lady-Links visits we enjoy making crafts that represent each holiday, and recently our crafts had a touch of the green to them!
With visits to the dear friends in our community who have some type of cognitive decline, we find ways to make crafts representing each holiday engaging as well as fun.
Our activities serve to inspire topics of conversation and these St. Patrick’s Day crafts certainly did that. We’ve shared memories about looking for four leaf clovers and how, as children, we were sure we would find a pot of gold if only we could discover the end of a rainbow!
We’ve recognized the symbolism of the Trinity in the shamrock and the cross. We’ve engaged in plenty of laughter as we recounted avoiding “getting pinched” by our classmates when we were children if we didn’t wear green on St. Patrick’s Day.
Our crafts are fun to make, plus they are a “treasure” to those residents in Memory Care and Assisted Living who receive them. It’s a way to bring joy to our visits as well as to give joy when the crafts are distributed. Everyone has a story about the “wearing of the green.” Why not engage your friend or loved one in cognitive decline in a St. Patrick’s Day activity this year? Who knows…when you do that, perhaps you’ll find something that’s more rewarding than green or even gold. The Lady-Links think so!
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