For many elderly people, getting older means losing strength and control of their lives which can become depressing. This project is an anti-depression cure that can be taken at any time and as often as is needed.

Time Required:
2 hours

Materials Needed:
An old shoebox, Construction paper, Regular white paper, Markers, stickers, crayons, Ribbons, dried flowers, buttons, etc., Scissors

Steps:
Talk to a local senior center or nursing home about giving them your box of Happy Pills. . Cut a hole large enough for someoneýs fist in the top of the box (the elderly may have arthritis in their hands, which prevents them from stretching out), then decorate the box with the construction paper, markers, stickers, crayons, flowers, ribbons and buttons. Make happy faces, write funny jokes, beautiful little poems, scriptures, sweet sayings, or famous quotes on the white paper. Fold them over and stuff the box with them. You can leave the box at a nursesý station or in the dining room at a senior center so that it is easily accessible when an elderly person needs to be cheered up. You can find poems, jokes and sayings at your library. Just ask a librarian to help you. Also ask residents at the center to contribute some of their own favorite sayings, poems and jokes. Keep making new Happy Pills to refill the box every couple of months.