Residents can also use this opportunity to sell crafts made from their own personal activities. Arrangements can be made with local pony owners and traveling children's zoos to provide entertainment for young children. With proper promotion, residents, families, and neighborhood can all mingle while generating profit for resident funds. Local media love to report on these kinds of community events. Facility staff can usually provide waiters, waitresses, and usually a speaker.
Profits can benefit residents.
Nursing home administration can use this opportunity to introduce new programs, new employees, or just address some current concerns. Utilizing a meeting room or large dining room to assemble an Easter egg hunt is a great way for residents to watch their young grandchildren scrambling about looking for eggs. Each egg can be marked differently so that each child can win a different prize or different craft, such as things made by the nursing home residents. Opening this event up to the local neighborhood children for a small fee provides a safe social event for parents to take their youngsters. For the elderly it provides a way to get to know their neighbors, feel as though they are contributing to the event, and make them feel good about socializing again.