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Size: 10 to 20 Equipment: chairs Objective: Humor therapy. participating in a silly activity to learn to find humor in life situations and learn to have fun and laugh. And by standing in front of a crowd can help people who are shy to come out of their shell. Description: Everyone
sits in a circle with one less chair and a volunteer in
the middle. the volunteer begins by saying I love everybody
except those with brown hair...or those with black shoes.
If you have brown hair you get up and switch seats including
the volunteer. You can't go to the chair next to you. It
must be away from your initial seat. For children I reword
it and tell them to say I like everybody who.... They run
around trying not to get stuck in the middle. Adults and
children love this activity. They learn to be silly and
laugh and also get some exercise from running to the best
seat.
Equipment: Yarn of various colors and scissors Objective: 1. To enhance socialization skills. 2. To share memories with others. Description: Cut different colored yarn into varying lengths. Tie yarn together end to end, alternating the colors. Roll the yarn into a ball. Sit in a circle. Decide who will go first and hand the person the ball of yarn. As the person begins telling a story, he or she slowly unravels the ball of yarn. When the color changes, it is time to pass the ball of yarn to the next person so he or she can take over telling the story. Keep passing the ball of yarn around as the colors change, until the ball of yarn is completely unraveled. The last person ends the story. For a variation, make up a rule to follow when the color changes. For example, each time the color changes you need to change the setting or introduce another character in your story.
Size: 8-10 Equipment: All types of sprinklers, wade pools, water balloons, water fun kits. Objective: to be socially interactive with others. This activity really works. Description: Activate all of the sprinklers and just let the students just have fun in the water. They will love this activity and will not want to stop.
Size: 6-12 Equipment: large piece of light coloured material or joined scarfs,6 balloons,music. Objective: Social gathering,upper body exercise,eye coordination,reminisce with music. Description: Have
people seating in a circle holding the material, with the
balloons in the middle,moving the material up and down
while the music is playing.
Size: 20-25 Equipment: Table, Chairs, Cookie Sheet Pan, Pre-Made Dough, Small Bowls, Knife, Sprinkles, Iceing, Small plate (Plastic) and Gloves. Objective: Socialization/Reminisce Description: Place a bowl in front of each participant. Place a knife (Plastic preferably)in front of each person. Place a good size portion of the Pre-made dough into each participants bowl. Have the participant place gloves on and work with the dough until it is soft enough to create into a round flat cookie shape. Have each participant place the cookie into the flat cookie sheet. Once placed into the sheet place into the oven for 20 minutes or until golden brown. While the cookies are baking have each participant pick an iceing color. After the iceing color has them pick the topping of sprinkles are next. By the time each participant chooses a topping decoration the cookies will be ready. Finally it is time to decorate. Each participant receives a small plate and is encouraged to be as creative as possible. The neatest thing about this event is the smell of the cookies. It is not only a sensory event but brings people together. After decorating the cookie we usually have a contest on who's cookie is most creative, cute, and original. This event is simple and yet fun for Reminisce Groups, Socials, and Rainy Days.
Size: unlimited, though 4 to 10 seems to work the best Equipment: Tablet, pen Objective: Socialization, interaction, reminiscing Description: In a tablet write statements such as " I know how to knit", " My birhtday is in the summer"...be imaginative without being too personal. Number statements, as many as you can think of. Have each participant in turn pick a number. Read statement. Each member in the group has to guess if the statement about the person who picked the number is true or not. When all have guessed the person who picked the Number answers. Participants find things they may have in common, also this game is often a good "opener" for reminiscing.
Size: 5-20 Equipment: Antiques, information about the antiques (which you can obtain from the internet) Objective: Promote open discussion, reminiscing, and interaction Description: We have the residents sit around a table, we have about 10 antiques for each scheduled Antique Home Show. We show the antique and usually the residents know what is it and they can us more about the item than we know. This activity is usually for the higher functioning resident, but it has had success with our lower functioning as well.
Size: at least 3; the more the merrier Equipment: (1)
Each person receives a sheet of paper onto which has been
copied 9 dollar bills (copy Monopoly or other game money),
3 quarters, 2 dimes, 1 nickel. (2) A Objective: Socialization, competition, reality orientation, just plain fun! Description: Each of the items is held up and described, then walked around the room by a helper so everyone can get a good look. The auctioneer keeps up a lively pace to create excitement. After a bidder wins an object, the amount he bid is crossed off the sheet of paper. Bidders may continue to bid on new items until all their money is "spent." Since our auctions take place in a skilled nursing facility with two beds in each rather compact room, we find the most popular items are body lotions, tissues, and food items such as candy bars, boxes of crackers, bags of hard candy, etc. A local church group donates very popular, quilted lap robes. A box of tissues usually goes for $9 or $10 ; while a charming lamp, figurine, picture frame, writing supplies, or stuffed animal will go for as little as $.50!
Size: from 4 to 12 people Equipment: a small ball, large piece of bright colored material (or parachute for larger groups) Objective: hand and eye co-ordination, team building, fun arm and hand exercise. Description: Have people sitting or standing hold material tight, with ball in the middle. The object of the exercise is to not let the ball fall off when raising and lowering the cloth.
Size of Group: 3-4 Objective: To help the residents interact with other residents Description: First you start by having them sit in a circle. You may start the activity or have someone else do it. Now, say something that you like to do, and if someone else likes the same thing, they are supposed to raise their hand. Whoever raises their hand first is going to ask the next question. Each person should record how many matches they have and after the game ends whoever has the most matches wins.
Size of Group: 6-? Equipment: Pool Table, cue stick, billiard balls, adaptive pool equipment as needed Objective: To facilitate socialization Description: We invited a neighbor facility to join us in a pool tournament. The beginning bought mostly men however 50% of the entries are now women. We treat them to refreshments and the winner receives a trophy donated by our local trophy shop.
Size of Group: 4-12 Equipment: A room without distractions Objective: Creative thought, socialization, communication skills, diversion, team work, humor, fun. Description: 1. In a small group setting you present a scenerio or encourage others to present the setting/scenerio that will be the beginning of the story. For example: You are on a boat in the South Pacific. It is a beautiful day and..... 2. Then you encourage each resident to take turns in completing the story. Each resident contributes to the story line.
Size of Group: 5-10 Equipment: 1 disposable camera with flash Objective: fun, social, teamwork Description: This worked well with the Personal Care wing residents. Before I went on vacation I made up a list of photos residents would have to take while I was away. Each photo had a point value depending on difficulty. If they got a certain amount of points they would get a shrimp cocktail and mocktail party when I came back from vacation. Residents really got into it. Some photo suggestions: 3 residents doing exercise, 2 residents with the Executive Director, a resident at the beauty shop, a staff person in the whirlpool tub (not filled with clothes on!)etc... The nursing staff on the wing were into it also. They helped make the phone calls to staff to come have their photo taken and took charge of checking off when they completed certain photos. When I got back from vacation they had gotten enough points and the photos were really funny to put on the bulletin board, and the shrimp were great!
Size: up to 12 Equipment: small paper bags, small objects around the house Description: take the small paper bags and place a small object in them (paperclip, spoon, battery, comb, etc.) everyone picks a bag and go around and tell a story about what's in the bag.
Target population: any Skills prerequisite: understand directions Min/max # of participants: 5 min, but no more than 15 Total number of sessions: can be used as a first meeting warm up Frequency of sessions:- once within a group Staff requirements: recreation leader Facility requirements: room/outdoor space supplies required none Program objectives: to learn the names of other persons in a group through associating the person first name with a word that also begins with the same letter as the first name Methods:
Drawbacks: while everyone in the group may remember names of people that they have heard repeated in this manner, the people who are introduced in the end my not have their name remembered by all as the leader make a special effort to remember their names Idea submitted during an activity workshop at the 1995 WVTRA Conference
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