We need some help with Bingo Prizes for the Mansion games.

Maria and I run the Friday games, and we have been scrambling for weeks to come up with interesting and quality prizes. We have done well, coming local stories, but there are not many good options here for us, and there are other games each week that the residents love.

They especially love prizes – there is a big rolling prize cart that gets empties out regularly, one to the winner of each game, there are some fiendish Bingo players at the Mansion.  They pore over the cart as if the crown jewels were there.

The games and the prizes are very important to them.

I’m hoping  the Army Of Good could use their creativity and energy to bu or make some prizes and send them to Julie Harlin, Activity Director, the Mansion, 11 S. Union Avenue, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816.

The residents love candy (sugar free), and small objects – trinkets, jewelry,  stuffed animals,  home made crafts, colorful socks, bracelets, seasonal wreaths or crafts to put on their doors,  books about animals, things like small music  boxes, large print stories and puzzles, snow cones with puppies.

I think of some of the holiday gifts you send are amazingly creative and much loved, many of them would also make great Bingo prizes.

And please do try homemade crafts if you can and wish, they are often especially popular and seem to bring out good memories.

We are looking for small prizes, the residents don’t have much space in their rooms.

This would be helpful, I’m buying sacks full every Friday when I find them.

The alternative is staff treks to the Dollar Store. The staff often buys prizes with their own money, and they don’t have much money. I have no squawks with the dollar store, but I think and hope the Army Of Good can be more creative and original.

The Mansion staff rarely asks for help but they did ask for help with Bingo prizes.

If  you can help, thanks, please send the Bingo prizes to Julie, c/o The Mansion, 11 S. Union Avenue, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816, and thanks again.