Senior Care in Columbia SC

If you are on a senior care journey with your elderly loved ones, they may feel like they are no longer capable of being as involved in holiday preparations as they once were. Their physical, medical, mobility, or cognitive limitations could keep them from doing the things that they once did to enjoy this special season with their families. Finding ways to keep them actively involved in the holiday celebrations can give them a mental and emotional boost, ease feelings of irrelevance and depression, and keep them feeling like they are an important part of the family and the season, while also helping you to pursue care goals of stimulating their minds.

One way that you and your parents’ senior health care services provider can encourage your parents to be actively involved in creating holiday celebrations while keeping their minds sharp and engaged is to do crafts with them. Crafts stimulate the imagination and creative thinking centers of the brain, encourage critical thinking and cognitive processing, and give a sense of accomplishment. They also provide social interaction and foster conversation and sharing. This is particularly meaningful when the crafts are useful to a particular goal, in this case, celebrating a holiday.

Having a house full of hungry guests waiting for the Thanksgiving feast to be ready is a surefire way to create grumpiness and tension. By having snacks available, you ease those hunger pangs and make guests far more agreeable, while also entertaining children and keeping things more under control. Planning for snacks also means that you can extend your holiday celebration to an hour or two before you plan to serve your meal, giving everyone more time to spend together.

This craft is fast and simple, but adorable, making it do dual duty as a convenient snack and a cute decorative touch to your table.

What You’ll Need

• Plastic Easter eggs. You can use the ones that you have left over from your holiday celebrations or order them online. They are available through online retailers year-round and are very inexpensive

• Rustic brown kitchen twine

• Hot glue

• Your favorite snacks

• Basket or bowl

What to Do

• Wash the Easter eggs thoroughly and allow them to dry completely. You can use any color eggs that you want to for this project. If you want to take it a step further and make them more realistic, use a sheet of sandpaper to lightly rough up the outside surface of each egg and paint with brown or burned orange acrylic craft paint

• Turn the egg so that the wide end is pointing up

• Find a point approximately one-third of the way down the egg and put a small amount of hot glue

• Attach the end of the kitchen twine and allow the glue to dry

• Make a path of dots with the hot glue in a continuous circular pattern up the egg, following with the twine. Be sure to “stack” the twine tightly to ensure it covers the top of the egg completely

• When you reach the top, leave a small end of the twine sticking up out of the middle to be the “stem” of the acorn cap

• Fill each “acorn” with your favorite snack mix or treat and display in the basket or bowl

If you or an aging loved one are considering hiring senior care services near Columbia, SC, contact Heart of the Carolinas Home Care at 864-991-3116.

Providing Home Care Services in Greenville, Simpsonville, Greer, Anderson, Spartanburg, Mauldin, Seneca, Laurens,Charleston, Columbia and the surrounding areas.

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Edward Harrison

Founder at Heart of the Carolinas

Edward Harrison founded the Heart of the Carolinas Homecare in 2007 when he saw there was a need for caregivers that provide non-medical home care services, at a price that most people could afford. It was standard in the industry to require hourly minimums and it was common to be assigned a caregiver, not matched with one based on your individual personal needs. Edward understood that to make a successful relationship between caregiver and client, skills were not enough, personality and compatibility plays as much a role as do skills.

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