This book is a guide for horticultural therapists and activity professionals that includes 31 themed gardens and over 200 activity and craft projects that can be done using the plant material being grown. The gardens range from indoor and outdoor sensory gardens to Tarzan"s Jungle Garden, Growing a Bird Feeder, Edible Flower Garden, and a Memory Album Flower Garden. There's even a garden from after dinner pits and peelings. Other chapters discuss gardens created for sharing, for sensory stimulation, food production and butterflies. This book opens the door to gardening possibilities indoors and out, for people of all ages and functioning levels. It focuses on the use of a wheelchair friendly portable garden, but the gardens are adaptable and can be used in a wide range of venues from senior care faculties and schools to hospitals and private homes. The book contains a discussion of the value of gardening as therapeutic exercise involving the physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual. There's also a list of dangerous plants, advice on how anyone can keep plants healthy and how plants help to keep us healthy.

Gardening Projects for Horticultural Therapy Programs

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Bruce, Hank

Gardening & Landscape Design

Petals & Pages

this is an idea resource for horticultural therapists and activity professionals in senior care facilites, hosptals and rehab centers. There are themed gardening activities for a wide range of functioning levels and hundreds of activites that relate to the plants being grown. Avenues for socialization, opportunites to relive memories and make new discoveries abound as residents, patients, clients and staff share the joy and wonder of gardening.

Gardening Projects for Horticultural Therapy Programs: A Guide for Horticultural Therapists and Activity Coordinators

Hank Bruce

Tomi Jill Folk

In this readable book by Elizabeth Ward is everything you need to know about the art of stage management, from pre-audition and rehearsals to performances and closing duties. The basics are presented with room to grow in confidence and proficiency. The author invites you to use this book as a guide while you work with your instructor and director. She presents the information in such a way that it will inspire you to look beyond the basics and discover ways to creatively adapt this information to your production. She defines the position of stage manager as demanding, frustrating and incredibly rewarding. The goal throughout the book is to alleviate some of the fears that you might have about the job and reinforce the idea that this is a learning experience. No one is flawless, especially when dealing with as many factors as a stage manager must. This text will be valuable to you in high school theatre, and it will prepare you for college productions and could even be of value to you in future community theatre experiences. There are also many sample forms and reports such as audition forms, rehearsal summaries, scene breakdowns and numerous checklists to help you develop a comfortable familiarity with the work of a stage manager as an important part of the production team.

Cue Tips, Stage Management for High School Theatre

Children's Books

WARD, Elizabeth

Arts, Music & Photography

Peace Beyond All Fear: A Tribute to John Denver's Vision

This is an idea source for horticultural therapy programs, schools, senior care facilities and individuals of all ages and abilities. These projects and plant related activities range from easy to difficult, and each has a touch of whimsy. The authors explain that whimsy is the counterpoint to the serious work of being human. These projects were designed by professional horticultural therapists to be fun while serving as great physical, mental and social exercises for everyone. Contains four kinds of activities Plant projects with creative activities and care notes accompanying each one. Craft activities range from creating a "Peace Card" to "Turning Your Problems into Compost." Quizzes on everything from garlic to coconuts. These are great conversation starters. Short stories that can be read aloud to a group or individually while waiting for the plants to grow. These are great springboards for discussion. There is also a comprehensive list of both safe and dangerous plants. Teachers, home schoolers, activity professionals, counselors, horticultural therapists, family caregivers and individuals of all ages will find these pages of value. The focus is on empowerment and creativity.

Windowsill Whimsy, Gardening & Horticultural Therapy Projects for Small Spaces

Folk, Tomi Jill

Written for activity professionals, horticultural therapists, family members and friends, this book is designed to be shared with senior citizens who choose to garden without getting their hands dirty. Enjoy it at home, adult day care centers, senior meal sites, retirement communities, hospitals or rehab programs. Over 50 activities, quizzes, stories, opinion polls and trivia to encourage conversation, trigger memories, and perhaps spark some new ideas along the way. Many of the quizzes aren't about finding right or wrong answers, but sharing wisdom, and exercising our sense of humor. Follow the garden path that allows each person to teach and learn something new, laugh a little and smile a lot as we enjoy the life a garden grows.

Along the Garden Path; Garden Related Activities, Quizzes, Stories & Trivia

Petals & Pages Press introduces the second in their new series: "Seniors Illustrated," written for the rapidly expanding elder population, both at home and in senior care communities. Volume 2 features two great short stories: "Cactus Flowers and Friends" and "The Great Potato Drop," and more delightful poetry. Seniors are the main characters in these stories but people of many ages will enjoy sharing the books with loved ones. Perfect for reading clubs, each large print page of the story is matched with a reinforcing picture, according to recommendations made by senior citizens and activity professionals. "Cactus Flowers & Friends" is a story about how a rare plant blooming brings a neighborhood together. The Great Potato Drop" bring Flo and Claire, the pranksters from Whispering Winds Senior Center back, complete with a truck load of potatoes, a lot of soup kitchens and food pantries and a community willing to be the solution to hunger. Based on a true story. Four volumes of Seniors Illustrated will be released each year. Fiction, nonfiction, multicultural legends, poetry and/or activities, even a few trivia quizzes, will be included, always having the senior population at heart.

Seniors Illustrated Volume 2

Parenting & Relationships

Aging Parents

Seniors Illustrated Volume 1

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

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