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Mild to Moderate Alzheimer’sActivities Ideas Center

Make a Blessings Book

What you need:

A pretty notebook, pen

What to know:

• Most everyone enjoys "counting their blessings." With your help, your loved one can capture the things he or she is grateful for on paper.
• You can refer back to this book after you make it, reading it aloud -- especially on tough days.
• You may need to offer prompts to begin: "I'm grateful for sunshine... flowers... Uncle Bob... this pretty card from Maisie..."
• Write "I'm grateful for... " and one item on each page.
• Ideally, you or your loved one can illustrate each page (a picture or flowers cut from a magazine, a photo of Uncle Bob, Maisie's card). These serve as visual prompts later.
• Write "My Blessings Book" on the cover. (If your loved one enjoys drawing or painting, he or she might like to embellish it.)