Liven up the Respect-for-the-Aged gathering: A roundup of recreational activities everyone can enjoy.

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🍈Word Scramble Quiz🍈 Brain-training game for seniors! Rearrange the hiragana characters to complete the words [Dementia Prevention]

If you’re looking for games everyone can enjoy at a Respect-for-the-Aged gathering, brain-training games that are both fun and good mental exercise are a win-win.

How about trying a letter rearrangement game with various characters—hiragana—randomly placed? Players rearrange the characters to form words that make sense.

Start with four or five characters, and gradually increase the number to raise the difficulty so it stays engaging without getting boring.

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utatane

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Casual Ball Curling

[Easy-to-prepare and exciting recreation] [Day service activity] Simple circle-style ball curling

Curling became well-known through the Winter Olympics, so many of you may already be familiar with it.

It’s a team game where you compete to see which team can get their balls closer to the center ball.

Preparing this recreation is as simple as getting a few balls ready.

That’s all it takes to create a fun activity that helps participants interact more with each other.

Since it can be played while seated, it’s also appealing because it can be enjoyed in a way that suits the physical and mental conditions of older adults.

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Nanaka

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ring toss

Colorful Ring Toss! (Day service recreation)

Ring toss is a classic game often seen at festivals—anyone can enjoy it since you simply throw rings at a target.

You can arrange it in various ways, such as aiming to win prizes or competing for points written on the targets.

Because you throw from a set distance, it can be played while seated and is easy on the body.

It’s considerate to make the targets and rings larger for visibility, and it’s also important to judge how to adjust the difficulty so the game stays exciting.

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kappamaki

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Recreation involving hitting with balls and sticks

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This is a recreational activity for large groups using balls, sticks, and buckets.

First, split into two teams.

Each person connects their bucket and stick with the person next to them, and the teams compete to see who can strike the ball faster.

The appeal of this game is that it trains quick reaction time.

Since you lift the items during play, it also helps build muscle strength.

It could also be fun to pass to the person in front and connect in a random order.

Depending on the participants’ age or abilities, you might adjust the speed of connecting.

Competing as teams encourages everyone to help one another and fosters cooperation.

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Nanaka

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pole toppling

Knocking down the stick with beanbags (≧▽≦)

A recreation adapted from a childhood sandbox game often called “Yamakuzushi” (mountain collapse).

You place beanbags on a table, stand a stick in the middle, and take turns removing the beanbags so the stick doesn’t fall.

Unlike playing in a sandbox, it doesn’t get messy and can be enjoyed while seated.

It may seem like a simple game for older adults, but carefully pulling out irregularly shaped beanbags surprisingly requires fine nerves and concentration, so people of all ages can enjoy it.

It’s a crowd-pleasing game that offers a different kind of excitement than physically active games.

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Hoshino Takashi

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Frog Frisbee Game

[Recreation] Aim for the frog’s mouth and throw the frisbee! Throw it! (Sawayaka Muroran Building No. 2)

June 6 is designated as Frog Day because the Japanese onomatopoeia “kero-kero” (ribbit) can be read from the date.

Frogs have long been beloved as creatures that let us feel the seasons.

I’d like to introduce a recreation activity themed around this commemorative frog day: the Frog Frisbee Game.

First, make a target out of cardboard with a frog motif.

Then make a cardboard frisbee and start throwing.

It might also be fun to design the target as a frog’s mouth so it looks like you’re feeding it.

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yamamoto

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Let’s find words within a word.

Recreation for seniors: super easy and fun brain training even during the COVID-19 pandemic! Word-search game

I’d like to introduce a game where everyone can play at the same time and get excited: a “find words inside a word” game.

In this game, you rearrange or extract letters from a given target word and see how many other words you can make.

For example, if the target is “とうもろこし” (corn), you can make words like “うし” (cow) or “しも” (frost).

Decide on a target word and a time limit, and you can compete to see who can find the most words.

You can also share with each other, saying, “Here are the words I found.”

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yamamoto

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