Apr 14 2009
Casey at the Bat Day (part 2)
Before or after you watch or recite Casey at the Bat, what else can you do? We talked about having a baseball game. I said that a beach ball may be too heavy for someone to hit. If this is the case, use a balloon. Balloons are quite light.
Obviously, your residents are not going be running the bases, so you have to be the commenter to make the activity exciting.
You also could have a discussion about baseball See this post about Baseball Day
You can also rewrite the poem or write another poem. See this post about writing a limerick
You can play baseball trivia or have a spelling bee.
Divide the group in two. Each time a person gives a correct answer or spells a word . correctly, a run is scored. You would be surprised how many people with dementia can still spell even though they can barely speak or usually do not make any sense when they talk.
More tomorrow
Remember in order to see the poem, click here
