Now is the time to order your promotional items either to honor your staff and / or your Activity director. The Activity Director should plan some special ways to honor the activity staff. The Executive Director should also plan something special to recognize all that the Activity Director does for the community and residents. The following are some suggestions for celebrating this very special week.

First Day: Balloons and Banners Up
Word Search Puzzles with words that describe the activity department placed
around facility.
Second Day: Coffee / Tea and Breakfast Items for the Activity Staff.
Third Day: Lunch out with the Executive Director is always appreciated!
Fourth Day: Resident party and entertainment. Department heads serve food items.
Fifth Day: Activity staff provided with promotional items, such as pins, calculators, bags. These items are available through www.positivepromotions.com

At www.activitytherapy.com we have a special tribute poem for activity professionals that you could print out on pretty paper and read during your resident / facility party.

The Executive Director could purchase one item off of the Activity Department wish list as there are always items the director would like to purchase for the residents, such as overhead projector, pop corn machine, DVD players, sensory equipment, gift cards to video stores and craft stores, etc. Activity Director’s like to receive books and there are many books on our web site that you could purchase. One valuable tool is the Care Plan Cook Book.

The best gift of all is education. Why not send your Activity Director and are staff to some seminars or if she is not certified, to the 90 hour activity courses. You can find an instructor at www.nccap.org. For NJ classes begin in February and will be held evenings 5:30 to 9:00 at Daughters of Miriam in Clifton NJ. See www.activitytherapy.com for details.