(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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So, I hope they have learned a lesson from me, Live life to the fullest and with your love be free!
I know we are failing, truly I do I know what we've lost and how the years flew.
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...
I have lots of wisdom to share to help you be free!
They are kind, patient, and caring to us,
At first they are frightened and a tiny bit shy, glancing around, I think they might cry.
I thank them for this gift, their sharing their lives
They call out a number and watch who needs help, A card becomes full and a resident yelps.
And hope they live life to the fullest because old age arrives.
So if they pretend she won, I won't put up a fuss.
Oops, Mabel covered a wrong number and puts up a fight.
"I won, I did, you know you are wrong!" The students nod, pretend, and follow along..
Why else would they be here, where we all wait?
Remembering, mourning, reliving our fate?
They rush over and check to see if we're right,
To be old in a nursing home is not so much fun Sitting in wheelchairs till anyone comes.
To the fact she had no idea what number they called.
Thanks once again for a lovely morning, My wishes go with you, my dreams adorning...
Sooner than we wish for and life changes once more, No longer able to do the things we dream for.
Along comes students full of hopes and dreams, assigned to experience life in a nursing home, it seems.
So good-bye my friends, come back and visit me,
These students make me forget where I am for a time, They laugh, they talk, they make me alive.
They set up BINGO and pass us a card, Not knowing that for some of us this game will be hard.