(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Along comes students full of hopes and dreams, assigned to experience life in a nursing home, it seems.
I know we are failing, truly I do I know what we've lost and how the years flew.
They rush over and check to see if we're right,
Thanks once again for a lovely morning, My wishes go with you, my dreams adorning...
Then they approach, smile, and say "Hi!" We smile back and answer...or try.
They acted in kindness not knowing it hurt, To realize they knew she wasn't alert...
Remembering, mourning, reliving our fate?
They set up BINGO and pass us a card, Not knowing that for some of us this game will be hard.
I thank them for this gift, their sharing their lives
So if they pretend she won, I won't put up a fuss.
These students make me forget where I am for a time, They laugh, they talk, they make me alive.
To be old in a nursing home is not so much fun Sitting in wheelchairs till anyone comes.
Oops, Mabel covered a wrong number and puts up a fight.
And hope they live life to the fullest because old age arrives.
I have lots of wisdom to share to help you be free!
"I won, I did, you know you are wrong!" The students nod, pretend, and follow along..
So good-bye my friends, come back and visit me,
So, I hope they have learned a lesson from me, Live life to the fullest and with your love be free!
To the fact she had no idea what number they called.
At first they are frightened and a tiny bit shy, glancing around, I think they might cry.
They call out a number and watch who needs help, A card becomes full and a resident yelps.
Sooner than we wish for and life changes once more, No longer able to do the things we dream for.
