Making Memories, Gallery Oldham
Sometimes we'll try a word association game to kick start a poem. Playing takes pressure off, asking questions like 'What's the first thing that comes to mind?' dodges people's fear of not being able to remember. Avoiding approaches that make a closed success/failure outcome is a good policy. There's no right or wrong if the whole thing is done in the spirit of play and a joke. Word association can bring a great focus because it's so immediate. Not so long sentences or circuitous openers or complex questions. Our group of people with dementias were fully engaged – leaning in concentrating, waiting on the next word...
Here's some of the lines that arose in response to the word association list for Dentists. They make a funny, loose little poem:
you can have my teeth
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| Reet and Doreen, working on concrete teeth poem |
Sometimes we'll try a word association game to kick start a poem. Playing takes pressure off, asking questions like 'What's the first thing that comes to mind?' dodges people's fear of not being able to remember. Avoiding approaches that make a closed success/failure outcome is a good policy. There's no right or wrong if the whole thing is done in the spirit of play and a joke. Word association can bring a great focus because it's so immediate. Not so long sentences or circuitous openers or complex questions. Our group of people with dementias were fully engaged – leaning in concentrating, waiting on the next word...
Here's some of the lines that arose in response to the word association list for Dentists. They make a funny, loose little poem:
you can have my teeth
they're falling out all the time
falling fairies
baby teeth
under the carpet
under the rug
put salt with em
otherwise the fairy can't
leave sixpence
a farthing
a threpenny, don't spend it all at
once
screw it in permanent
collecting coins for a mouthful
a farthing a wren
a sixpence a tanner
the old bob with the old king on it
shiny
to pay the dentist
(group poem, extract)
8 March 2013
Oldham
For more information about the Making Memories Project please visit arthur-and-martha.blogspot
For more information about the Making Memories Project please visit arthur-and-martha.blogspot
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