11 Holiday DIY Small Talks: for Activity Directors and Groups

By Daphne Simpkins

From the writer of the popular Mildred Budge series comes a collection of 11 easy-to-give Holiday Small Talks for Activity Directors or groups. Written by a long-time member of a speakers' bureau, these informative and entertaining Small Talks are tied to classic Christmas and New Year's themes.

Here's an excerpt from the Introduction: When classic movie director Frank Capra envisioned making movies, he said this was his goal: "My films must let every man, woman, and child know that God loves them, and that I love them, and that peace and salvation will become a reality only when they all learn to love each other. "Out of that vision, Capra made the Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life." It's the movie that Capra played each year for his own family during the Christmas holidays because he loved it. Capra said that after he died, he wanted people to say about him: "He's the man who made that movie 'It's a Wonderful Life.'"

The main ideas in each Talk are in bold type, to be read-and then to be paraphrased if you like. Or, you can just read the Small Talk as it is written. They are written to be read. The first six Talks are specifically about Christmas with a slight veering to a Small Talk about Irving Berlin because he wrote "White Christmas." That song changed the Christmas musical landscape The next five Small Talks that follow the #6 Talk, Miracle on 34th Street, are more general.

Each Small Talk has a Synopsis page to help you decide whether this is one that your group will like. There are some tips on how to prepare for the Talk and to give it. The Small Talk itself follows. Next, when appropriate, biographical sketches are included after the Small Talk in case your members want to know more about the people involved. That list of biographies is not comprehensive-just enough to flesh out the Small Talk.

Here are the 11 Small Talks:
1.Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
2.It's a Wonderful Life (Really ) 3.What'll I do? A Story about Irving Berlin
4.Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn
5.Irving Berlin's White Christmas
6.Miracle on 34th Street
7.I Love to Whistle
8.The Andy Griffith Christmas Show
9.The Bethlehem Bible Story
10.Tell Your Pandemic Story in the New Year
11.Auld Acquaintances A New Year's Talk

Daphne Simpkins is the author of the popular Mildred Budge series, but she writes extensively on caregiving.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1732015856
• ISBN13: 9781732015852
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Quotidian Books
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"