Nursing Home Residents Go 'Deer Hunting' Amid Holiday Celebration

BLANCHESTER, OH — Staff members at an Ohio nursing home found a fun way for residents to celebrate the holiday season as the coronavirus pandemic continues to make traditional December activities all the more difficult.

A few residents of Continental Manor in Blanchester, about 50 miles northeast of Cincinnati, were given Nerf guns and went "deer hunting" as staff members dressed as deer and pranced around behind a few Christmas trees.

The activity was captured on video and shared by the nursing home on Facebook.

Workers at the nursing home dinned antlers and snouts as the residents, who were in wheelchairs, also used foam dart blasters to strike them, all in good fun. The video has been shared on News 5 Cleveland and other television reports across Ohio and the United States.

It brought joy and laughter to not only the residents at Continental Manor, but those watching it from home.

"What a great idea to raise their spirits in these trying days," one woman said on the Facebook video feed.

"It is so important to find things to laugh about, and hearing these ladies' giggles was just great," one man said.