Slides + ideas = sly DEE ahz: Slides and ideas for programs and visits with older adults and between generations.

Great programs to involve older adults don't have to be expensive. Try slides and ideas.

What's Included:

Slides: Twenty in a plastic sleeve. The black-and-white historical photos bring back memories. Current color shots focus on the chosen time or topic.

Guide: A script to read with the slides allows you the flexibility either to go through the program without stopping or to discuss each slide individually. There's no cassette tape, so you set your own pace!

Activities: Ideas to expand your program into a whole series. Program ideas you can use with little or no cost. Ways to involve even more group members in the program topic.

Discussion starters: Questions to think and talk about relate to the topic and sometimes to an individual slide.

Resource list: Books, records, songs, poetry, or a film especially chosen for older adults to add one more dimension to your programming.

PLUS you get a FREE binder when you buy all 4 sets in a volume, or choose any four Slideas sets to order at one time. (You save $10 AND you get a free binder whenever you buy four slide sets at a time.)

Sweet Memories

A history of the sweets and treats in our lives.

SL911 $30

Mothers

Women who helped us grow up (related or not).

SL912 $30

Vacations

Trips remembered and fantasized.

SL913 $30

Weddings

Something old, something new.

SL922 $30

Elections

Many ways to participate in the political process.

SL923 $30

Quilts

Making, saving, and loving the great cover-ups.

SL924 $30

Spring in Bloom

Spring flowers, outside and in, all in brilliant color.

SL931 $30

Fall Color

School, hunting, raking leaves, and Thanksgiving.

SL933 $30

Winter Snow & Ice

The challenges and opportunities.

SL934 $30

Shopping in the Old Ways

The reminiscences of shoppers and storekeepers.

SL941 $30

Fathers

Use this set to remember a father's many roles.

SL942 $30

Postcards

Talk about when people kept in touch by mail.

SL943 $30

Talking Table Manners

Prompt unexpectedly lively discussion. Remember your manners, how you learned them, when you did, who you learned them from, and how they're the same or different from the manners you see practiced today.

The 20-slide set has a new spiralbound 16-page guide. It includes the usual script, discussion ideas and resources for general audiences. A second script and questions have been adapted for use with people with memory loss. Kathy Laurenhue of Wiser Now, Inc. has provided the new information for us and for you. (If you already have the Table Manners Slideas and want the new guide, contact us at bifolks@bifolkal.org.)

SL949 $30.

My Favorite Toy

Remember the best present you ever got to play with.

SL951 $30

Toystore Window

Most popular toys through the decades 1920-50.

SL952 $30

Our Heroes

Toys inspired by radio, TV, movies, and books.

SL953 $30

Valentine's Day

Don't save hearty greetings for just one day a year.

SL961 $30

Fourth of July

Glorious fireworks, parades, festivities, and food.

SL963 $30

Halloween

A magic night when anything can happen.

SL964 $30

New Halloween on CD: contains both the Halloween Slideas & Actiphile. Show images and print activities using your computer!

CD164 $40

Talking Trees

(formerly Arbor Day) Celebrate trees past, present and future.

Redesigned for use in all seasons by all audiences, the set of 20 slides is now available as Talking Trees. A new 16-page guide (spiralbound!) includes the usual script, discussion ideas and resources. But now a second script and questions have been adapted for use with people with dementia.

An introduction to programming with people who have memory loss includes communicating effectively and understanding how they communicate with us. A collaboration with Kathy Laurenhue of Wiser Now, Inc. allows us to bring you this informational guide for volunteers, family caregivers, or activity directors. (If you already have the Arbor Day Slideas and want the new guide, contact us at bifolks@bifolkal.org.)

SL967 $30

Reading

Talk about books read and remembered.

SL971 $30

Airplanes

Remember the first time you saw an airplane?

SL972 $30

School

Compare school days past with the present.

SL973 $30

Thanksgiving

Memories of fourth Thursdays in November.

SL974 $30

New Year

New year traditions and some alternatives. Guy Lombardo, Holiday Inn and cultural celebrations on many dates.

SL981 $30

Christmas

Colorful slides to prompt memories of decking the halls for this festive holiday. (These are not the slides from the "Open for Christmas" mini-kit! - CM158).

SL984 $30

Easter

Easter is about gathering together with families and friends, feasting, exchanging cards, eggs and baskets, rebirth, and welcoming spring into the house and garden. So is this slide set.

SL982 $30

St. Patrick's Day

See a historical magazine cover, greeting card, parade shots, the opening of the Shamrock hotel, a postage stamp honoring Irish Immigration, the Empire State Building lit up in green, the Chicago River running green, even good old Saint Patrick himself.

SL983 $30

Sewing Savings: Feed and Flour Sacks

Lead your group through the many lives of feed and flour sacks in our history. You'll see the pretty prints used on many bags to make sewing with them more fashionable and fun.

You don't have to sew to remember growing up in feedsack clothing or sleeping on feedsack sheets under feedsack quilts. Or drying dishes with floursack towels. Based on the work of Anna Lue Cook, who has been collecting textile bags and items made from them for more than 25 years.

SL991 $30

Labor Day

Yes, you'll see a few Labor Day parades here, but this set is much more than that. It's a chance to celebrate American workers and the work they have done. The six-page guide includes a script, discussion questions for each slide, and lots of program ideas and resources.

SL993 $30