If seniors at your nursing home often play bingo, they may love dressing up as a bingo card!

Halloween nursing home activities. Why not trick (or treat) your residents with a few of these activities this halloween? Remind them of the theme. We’ve created a list of 10 fun and easy halloween crafts for seniors below.

Have residents go all out decorating the door to their room. Gather up door decorating supplies (construction paper, little plastic spiders, stuffing for webs, artificial leaves, ribbons, tape, scissors, garbage bags, etc.) have residents use the supplies to decorate the doors to their room. While seniors in wheelchairs can use any of the above costumes, you could always create costumes with their wheelchairs in mind, such as these:

Also, halloween provides an opportunity for everyone to have some spooky amusement. Families and staff can drive by and wave or hold funny signs. If you're a recreational therapist, then you know that the biggest challenge with nursing homes is pairing up people with the right activities for them.

Here are some halloween party games to get seniors in the spooky spirit: The pins can be anything from rolls of paper. Halloween activities for prek and kindergarten.

A twist on the popular bowling alley classic, pumpkin bowling is a great game for active seniors. See more ideas about halloween fun, holidays halloween, halloween. See more ideas about halloween party, halloween fun, halloween diy.

Peek a boo haunted house. Use your regular bingo cards, but have fun this holiday by providing residents with candy corn to use as the bingo markers. Move time in the musical genre.