Sagittarius

When the sign of the Sagittarius began, we celebrated with a target toss. We talked about the traits of those born during this zodiac month. Patients chatted about archery. In the afternoon, we had an arrow social with decorated straws.

Thanksgiving 2019

 I am thankful I got to work Thanksgiving at the hospital.

 Patients made turkey and leaf decorations.

 We played a turkey toss game with a roast-looking paper bag and balled paper.

 We wrote out what we're thankful for on leaves.

And of course there was a delicious lunch. Dietary also made us pies for a pie social with family in the afternoon during visiting hours.

Dream Catcher Day

We learned the fascinating oral history behind dreamcatchers, then made some from doilies and with our own special meanings.

Dictionary Day

For Dictionary Day we discussed the meaning of our hospital's name, played a word guess game, and made adorable bookmarks.

Halloween 2019

 The "When The Frost is on the Punkin" poem was written by a Hoosier so we read it for patients. We also had candy corn guessing, candy corn parfaits (made of whipped topping, pineapple, and mandarin oranges), pumpkin circle paintings, and white out tape mummies.

Indigenous Peoples Day

Columbus Day made me a little nervous. There is a trend to celebrate Indigenous Peoples instead, or in addition to and I wasn't sure who would be offended by what. We did talk about both and at the end of the day created crests for our families with meaningful colors and words.

You're the Number 2!

 In October our gift for the staff was useful and cute. We made pencil toppers from pipe cleaners. I ordered pre-sharpened pencils since we all know how useless an un-sharpened pencil can be.