Easter Activities To Enjoy With Your Aging Loved One

Introduction

The Easter holidays are a great opportunity to spend some much needed quality time with our loved ones. As we age, our mobility and energy levels can reduce, meaning that some of the traditional easter activities can be harder to participate in. We share some activities you can enjoy this Easter time that are fun and engaging for you and your loved one.

Decorate The Home For Easter

You can create your own hand crafted easter themed decorations, like pastel coloured paper bunting, garlands and signs or you can visit your local bargain stores which stock plenty of cheap easter decorations, shops like B&M, Home Bargains and even the poundshop. Placing these rabbit, chick and egg themed decorations around the home will surely brighten spirits and be a great mood booster.

Get Crafty

There are many Easter themed crafts that your loved one will enjoy, such as making and decorating Easter bonnets and baskets for the Grandchildren or building Easter wreaths and decorating eggs. Painting indoor flower pots for new spring flowers to place on their windowsills is also a great way to brighten up the home and you can keep all year round. Make your own easter cards for friends, family and neighbours. They don’t need to be fancy, intricate cards; you can find free templates online which you can simply print. Who doesn’t appreciate the thought behind a handmade card?

Host a Gathering

The bank holiday is an egg-cellent time to get together with your friends and family, even if you live far apart. You can prepare an easter buffet or roast dinner if you are all celebrating under one roof and play Easter themed games such as Charades and Pictionary or an easter quiz, see which family member knows the most about Easter traditions.

A good thing to have come from celebrating holidays in the pandemic is the new found knowledge of video calls which enables us to spend time face to face with our loved ones who don’t live in our area. Face time is available on Apple mobile phones or you can make video calls through apps such as WhatsApp, Skype and Zoom. So, even if you are apart you can still enjoy the visual games mentioned above.

Tasty Treats 

Get together and do some baking, you don't need to be a star baker to make the long-time Easter favourite, chocolate nests, see  an easy recipe below! You can simply decorate a premade, shop bought cake like a Victoria sponge with icing and embelish it with crème eggs and Malteser bunnies with some hundreds and thousands sprinkled on top. Or even decorate some egg-shaped gingerbread biscuits, which can be found at your local supermarket, some also include icing pens keeping to the theme and making it fun, you could turn it into a competition and get a friend or family member to rate your biscuit art.Why not decorate chocolate eggs, a tasty alternative to painting or dying chicken eggs, but are also edible! Stick on smarties using icing sugar, get creative and upgrade those plain easter eggs into something egg-stravagant! You can then enjoy the treats or give them out to neighbours or friends and family for easter gifts.

Relaxing and Stimulating Activities

For a relaxed and chilled out easter activity you can purchase adult colouring books on amazon, these have quickly become popular as a slow paced relaxing activity. Keep the mind engaged with some easter themed wordsearches, you can find these free online simply google ‘printable easter word search’. You can also print out Easter bingo cards for you and your loved one to play. Easter themed jigsaws are also a great way to stimulate the mind whilst staying within the easter theme.