Adopt a “grandfriend”
Visit a nursing home
Rake leaves, shovel snow, clean gutter or wash windows for a senior citizen
Pick up medicine for an elderly person
During bad weather, visit seniors to make sure they have everything they need
Pick up the morning paper for a senior neighbor on your way to school
Form a Mall Patrol with your friends to help seniors with their shopping
Form a kids carwash squad to clean and wash seniors’ cars
Write your “grandfriend” a letter, or write letters for an elderly person
Go for a walk with a senior citizen in your community
Hold an afternoon dance for your local nursing home
With the help of family and friends, hold a summertime play or songfest at a nursing home
Teach them your dances and ask them to teach you theirs
Deliver meals to homebound individuals
Offer to pick up groceries with/for a senior citizen
Help senior citizens in your neighborhood obtain and install locks or smoke alarms
Teach a senior friend how to use a computer or the Internet
Get a group together to sing or present a play at a nursing home
Do something creative on the holidays for the Senior Citizens (cook a meal, bake cookies, dress up in costumes, etc)
Take a pet to a nursing home
Do art projects with people in nursing homes (Finger painting)
Organize a sing-a-long
Offer to read to people in a nursing home
Write letters to people in a nursing home, if you can’t go and visit
Teach an elderly neighbor a new card game
Call up elderly people who live on their own to see if they need anything
Teach your senior friends how to use computers
Get with friends and form a Clean Up Club to help elderly with their house cleaning
Be a friend to the senior citizens
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