Your mom wants to be more active and is interested in finding a hobby to keep her busy. How do you assist her in finding a hobby that is within her budget and is easy to learn? Here’s a list of possible hobbies, what is needed to get started, and how her senior home care provider can help.
Computer Games
Computing gaming is a hobby that many people enjoy. There are games for all ages. Your mom might not want to play a strategy or war-based game, but she might love detective games like the Sherlock Holmes series. Storytelling games like Firewatch are just as enjoyable.
Painting
Get some canvas paper and watercolors and have your mom start painting. She can try it on her own or follow an instruction video or Bob Ross episode and learn as she goes.
Another idea is to purchase a paint-by-number kit for adults. They can be very complex, but it’s a useful way to learn the techniques. When she’s ready, she can move on to painting on a blank canvas.
Gardening
Gardening is another good hobby, and it’s one that fills your mom’s fruit bowl, fridge, and freezer with produce. It gets her outside in fresh air. If she ends up with too much produce, she could donate it to the local food shelf or give it to neighbors. That’s a good way for her to socialize.
Needlework
If your mom has limited mobility, needlework is a great hobby. While she’s seated, she has a frame, cloth, and embroidery floss that she uses to sew the pattern printed on the fabric to create the image. As she masters the needlework and different stitches, she can start creating her own designs.
Photography
With a camera or smartphone, photography is a good hobby for spending time outdoors. You might want to start with a smartphone and see if your mom enjoys it. If she loves photography, you can look for a starter camera and grow her supplies from there.
She may want to photograph flowers, animals, or objects like clouds and water. She can take photos of her family, her pets, or patterns on floors, rocks, tree bark, etc.
Journaling
Journaling involves writing in a journal, notebook, or online in a word-processing document. The things she writes can be personal thoughts, or she could look for a daily writing prompt online and write from that.
Baking
Bread baking is a useful hobby as your mom also has bread and other food items to fill her freezer and pantry. If she wants to try cake making, decorated cakes and cupcakes are good places to start. She might even find that people start offering her money to make cakes and cupcakes for events or ask her to donate one for charity auctions.
Is your mom looking for more activity during the week? If she finds herself bored and lonely, she may start to call you looking to socialize. Arrange senior home care services and have caregivers available to help her out and keep her company.
If you or an aging loved one is considering Senior Home Care in Southbury, CT, please contact the caring staff at Elderly Caregivers LLC. today. (203) 628-7438
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