Craftibilities: retirement residence

We call bingo at our local retirement residence every Sunday and a special bingo for holidays.

Last year was a winter theme and this year we did red, green, and gold.

Every year we hand out small gifts. It's just a little "thinking about you" gift but when you have 20+ people it can get pricey! I usually make edible gifts like Santa Cakes or dipped pretzels and our winter event last year we gave out a scalp massagers and all the residents loved them.

I found most of the items at the Dollar Tree, Walgreens, or Michael's.

My decorating crew and the cutest elf. He usually loves to dress up but wasn't too thrilled about his elf costume.

He's soooo cute!

We used the wrapped picture frames as our backdrop/photobooth area. I have some really cute photos.

For our gifts:

After Christmas last year I found mugs on sale for .25 cents and decided to get them ALL!

So many ideas of how to fill them!

Candy (Hershey Kisses in Christmas colors)
Lindor candy
Hot coco - add a mini Baileys bottle and Hot chocolate Christmas spoon.
Tea
Candy canes
Fuzzy socks
Nail polish and emery board
Lotion

Each mug was filled with hot cocoa, 2 candy canes, marshmallow peep, 3 kit kats (not shown) and 6 Hershey's kisses.

Wrapped the peeps individually.

A little hot glue to keep the heart shape.

I found large cello bags at HEB and wrapped each mug individually.

I used the mugs and necklaces to decorate the tables.

At the end of bingo we handed out gifts to all the residents.

Large print word search books and pencils from the dollar store.

I decided to wrap them all the same.

Tired after all the attention. :)

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We hosted a winter themed bingo at our local retirement residence last Sunday. Here are some photos and links to tutorials below photos or at the end of the post.

I made 30 different bingo cards and printed on card stock paper.

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My helper setting up the table decorations.

Covered each table with blue plastic table covers.

Table centerpieces and matching candy.

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Easy party favors or treats for the tables.

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I made these giant 3D paper snowflakes to hang above each table.

Picture frames wrapped and a mini photo booth against the back wall. I used snowflake wrapping paper and silver metallic curtains from our NYE photoshoot.

He also helped test the mini photobooth.

Mr. Chill pose. :) Very similar to the Red Carpet Event photo.

Then we all had to test it out. :) My Mom came to help too!

I used the same wrapping paper for all the little gifts.

We wanted to get something for everyone but also needed it to be inexpensive. I found these Scalp Massagers at Wal-Mart for $1.00. All blue to keep with the theme of the event.