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Listen to music

2

Toss a ball

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Color pictures

4

Make homemade lemonade

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Count trading cards

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Clip coupons

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Sort poker chips

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Read out loud chapters from Harry Potter books or other favorite stories

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Rake leaves

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String beads

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Bake cookies

12

Take photos of the person and you and create a collage

13

Brush or comb one another’s hair

14

Participate in the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer's.
To learn more about Walk, please click here.

15

Plant seeds indoors or outdoors

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Look at family photographs

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Wipe off the kitchen table

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Weed the flowerbed or tend to the garden

19

Fold laundry

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Have a friend visit with a well-behaved pet

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Cut pictures out of greeting cards or magazines

22

Play dominoes

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Ask the person about his or her favorite childhood books or cartoon characters (you can share yours too)

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Bake homemade bread

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Sort objects by shape or color

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Sing old songs

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Invite the person to tell you more when he or she talks about a memory

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Put silverware away

29

Make a Valentine card

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Play favorite songs and sing

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Ask the person about his or her brothers or sisters

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Make a cherry pie

33

Play with tops or jacks

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Make a scrapbook

35

Take a walk around the yard

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Write a poem together

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Reminisce about the first day of school

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String Cheerios® to hang outside for birds

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Make a fresh fruit salad

40

Sweep the patio

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Color paper shamrocks green

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Fold towels

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Have an afternoon tea party

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Talk about great inventions

45

Look through the pages of a clothes catalog

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Look at a map of the United States and identify states and capitals

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Make a family tree poster

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Color a picture of our flag

49

Eat a picnic lunch outside

50

Water house plants

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Play horseshoes

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Dance

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Watch Sesame Street together

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Make homemade ice cream

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Make holiday cards

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Reminisce about favorite sports activities the person enjoyed while growing up

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Write a letter to a friend or family member

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Dress in your favorite football or soccer team's color

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Pop popcorn

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Name the presidents

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Give a manicure

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Make paper butterflies

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Plant a tree

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Finish famous sayings

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Feed the ducks

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Model with play dough

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Look at pictures in a comic book

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Put a puzzle together

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Sand wood

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Rub in hand lotion

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Arrange fresh flowers

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Remember famous people

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Recite nursery rhymes

74

Make peanut butter sandwiches

75

Cut up used paper for scratch paper

76

Blow bubbles

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Take care of a fish tank

78

Bake cupcakes and decorate them

79

Interview the person about his or her life using either a video camera or cassette recorder

80

Play Hangman

81

Finger paint

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Cut out pictures from magazines

83

Put coins in a jar

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Put bird seed out for the birds

85

Decorate a pumpkin

86

Reminisce about a favorite summer

87

Roll yarn into a ball

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Trace and cut out autumn leaves

89

Cook a favorite family recipe together

90

Gather a yellow sponge, crayons, paper and tape and make a SpongeBob SquarePants

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Wash silverware

92

Give him or her a hug

93

Ask the person to show you how to knit or sew (or another favorite hobby)

94

Make a picture frame our of popsicle sticks and glitter

95

Play a musical instrument

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Keep a journal together

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Ask the person to talk about his or her favorite sports hero

98

Sort playing cards

99

Ask the person about his or her favorite pet

100

Wash windows together

101

Ask the person about his or her first car