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Do you find it challenging to come up with interesting activities for your male residents? Science experiments are always a big hit at our nursing home.

That’s why it’s great fun to celebrate National Baking Soda Day. There are so many cool experiments you can do with baking soda. This is also a perfect opportunity to invite children to join your residents for a project.

We celebrate National Baking Soda Day on January 30 in honor of the French chemist, Nicolas Leblanc, who produced baking soda for the first time in 1791. (Some sources list National Baking Soda Day as December 30 or January 3. However, with so many other activities going on around the holidays, I prefer to celebrate on January 30.)

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Nowadays, every day is a national holiday. We designate specific days to celebrate everything from pizza to country music to frogs. Some days are quite cheesy (like National Cheese Puff Day on March 5), while others are patriotic or educational. Whatever the case may be, national holidays offer a wonderful array of ideas for nursing home activities.

This week I’ll share activity suggestions for two special days in January. The first is National Milk Day on January 11. We celebrate this holiday in honor of the first day glass-bottled milk was delivered to American homes in 1878.

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