05/21/2025
In today's nature connection activity at the memory care center, we started with motion - acting out a forest walk with all kinds of adventures. After that, I talked about hummingbirds. I passed around a book with beautiful full-color photos, showed my hummingbird feeder and talked about how I make sugar water for the hummingbirds. Then we did an activity, cutting out pictures from a seed catalog and organizing them according to color. At first they didn't know what was going on, but as we got into it, some of the ladies were talking and recollecting their own days gardening with their mothers. It's huge when they are able to recall a memory! Toward the end of our session, I pulled out some jasmine essential oil and put it on a cottonball for them to smell. Some liked it. Some didn't. Some couldn't smell it. Some weren't interested in trying. There's always such a variety of responses - I love the challenge of providing something for everyone, even if it's just sitting them down quietly and looking at a nature-filled picture book.
