Create a Fun and Memorable Day for Your Older Relatives at Easter
1. Attend an Easter church service
A church service at Easter can be a wonderful, uplifting event. Many churches and city cathedrals have traditional music around Easter time, such as Bach’s St Matthew’s Passion. It’s worth doing your research ahead of time to find out what’s on in your area.
2. Stage a music hall event at home
Setting up a mini music hall event of your own is a great activity that your older guests will love.
It’s definitely one to get the kids involved in and ideally get them to organise it. They can make up funny comedy sketches, do impersonations of their teachers or their parents, or play musical instruments.
All you then need to do is set up a makeshift stage area, ideally sectioning off the ‘off-stage’ are with curtains or screens.
The grand finale of any music hall event must be the sing-along. Sing-alongs were always the traditional way families celebrated during get-togethers, gathering around the piano and singing familiar tunes.
So, if you have a musical person around at your Easter celebration enlist them in playing tunes that everyone can singalong to.
3. Give gift hampers
Giving a gift basket is a lovely way to show your appreciation for older members of your family and your community. It can be a lovely surprise at their door as most services provide delivery across Australia.
Online stores have a wide range to choose from so you can choose something that exactly suits your recipient.
For seniors living on their own iGift Fruit Hampers provides a mini 200 ml Moet & Chandon in a basket of fruit, chocolate and hisbiscus flowers in syrup.
4. Have a photo screening
Enjoy a trip down memory lane by digging out all the favourite family photos and screening on your computer. We all take a multitude of photos with our phones but never sit down and look at them.
The Easter holidays is a great opportunity to share memories with your loved ones.
If you want to consolidate all your photos, you can have your old paper photos scanned and digitised. It means you have copies that will last a very long time.
5. Have a picnic
Easter is a good time of year to plan a picnic and is a chance to get out and relax in nature and reconnect with friends and family. It’s also a great way to celebrate with extended family as everyone can bring a plate and you have unlimited space to cater for everyone.
If you’re out in the open,you can also set-up an Easter egg hunt for the kids.
Mature-age guests can relax in picnic chairs and watch the children.
6. Set up a bingo night
Bingo is fun and it’s simple enough for young children to join in as well. Home bingo games can be bought inexpensively from toy shops and you can use Easter eggs and chocolate as prizes instead of money.
7. Make a recording
If you have children, it’s great fun to get them to ‘interview’ their grandparents and older family members and record what they have to say. It’s always interesting to hear them talking about what life was like when they were younger or any unusual experiences.
You can also get the kids to ask your older relatives what you were like as a child and to share any funny anecdotes about you.
If your gathering is particularly creative, you can ad lib a ‘radio play’ and record it. Get the kids to take on different characters and let a story unfold through dialogue.
Make sure you save the recordings and as these make invaluable mementoes for the future.
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