Remembering Home
 
Complete Kit:   HM105 $300

This kit can take people to the "places where they like to be"- in their memories, in their dreams, in their imaginations. Once there, the goal is to discover what there is about our dream homes that may be transferred to the places where we are now. What is at the "heart of home" for each of us? A favorite item, photograph, texture, sound, scent, or taste may come from the past to to make someone feel more at home in the present. We all need a place where we feel comfortable, where we feel "at home." We hope that this kit will help your group members to find those places for themselves-and to find those feelings in the places where they are.

Remembering Home complete kit comprises:

Media Presentation on DVD with 12-page Guide in Binder. The media offers a blueprint for helping the people in your group build the homes of their dreams in their imaginations. Using their memories of places they have lived, visited, or seen on TV or in the movies, they can design just the right home for the way they want to live today. The topics of everyday living and home and family lie offer much opportunity for thoughtful discussion. The 14 minute DVD has subtitles.

Sing-Along Songs and Story on CD with Guide in Binder. Six sing-along songs : "Keep the Horseshoe Over the Door (for good luck!)," "Home on the Range," "This House Is Your House," "Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat," "Little Boxes," and "Sing Your Way Home." Then, four stories to listen to and discuss: "Little Snoop," "Langston Terrace," "Monday Mornings," and "Going Home."

25 Booklets. The kit includes 25 copies of Home Keys, a 16-page booklet with the six sing-along songs, pages from the 1926 Sears Catalog of Houses, and a poem.

Two Skits. "Setting Up Housekeeping" presents a conversation between a couple preparing for marriage and home ownership.  In "Spring Into Cleaning" a mother and daughter discuss the value of a variety of spring tasks. Three copies of each skit.

Picture Set. Home Work. 12 photographs on card stock with large-print questions prompt discussion of all kinds of housework and homework.

Things to Touch. A touch of home is provided by two clothespins, a canning jar gasket, two seed packets, a crocheted doily, a foam paintbrush, laminated pages from old catalogs, a wallpaper sample, a grid and furniture symbols for making a floor plan, and a survey to prompt discussion.

Manual. All kinds of ideas for using the kit pieces and for programming with older adults and intergenerational groups on the topic of home. (138 pages)

Kit bag. Holds everything together in a convenient carrying case of navy blue and yellow vinyl. Includes window pocket and luggage tag labels.

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