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