[Elderly Day Service] Let’s all have fun! Games and recreational activities

Popcorn Game

Ready in no time! 😆 Popcorn you can bounce and pop with your feet 🍿 #SeniorActivities #DementiaPrevention #DayService #Easy #Recreation #shorts

Even if you know that moving your body is good for your health, you might still feel reluctant to get active.

So here’s a fun popcorn game that lets you exercise your feet while enjoying yourself.

Sit in a chair and place paper plates on both knees.

Fill the plates with lots of crumpled-up paper balls.

Think of the paper plates as frying pans and the crumpled paper as popcorn for the game.

When someone says, “Ready, start!”, flutter your legs and march your feet to shake the paper popcorn out of the plates.

Watching the crumpled paper fall from the plates looks just like popcorn popping in a heated frying pan.

Because it’s an exercise you can do like a game, it seems like older adults can enjoy participating too.

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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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Swaying Ball Toss

Team Match: Wobbly Ball Toss

A game you can enjoy as a team with multiple people is “Wobbly Beanbag Toss.” Since you can play it while seated, it’s also recommended for seniors! Divide into two teams: the first team throws beanbags toward a box, trying to land them inside.

The second team pulls the string attached to the box to make it sway, attempting to prevent the beanbags from going in.

Once you get used to it, you can discuss strategies as a team! Try coordinating the timing to throw all at once, or move the string when a beanbag is about to go in—use feints and tactics to make it exciting.

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Pikagoro

[Senior Recreation] Super Easy! A Guaranteed Crowd-Pleaser and Brain Training: Pikagoro Recreation

Pikagoro is a game that absolutely gets everyone excited and also works as brain training for seniors.

The goal of this game is to perform two actions at the same time.

Raise the index finger of your right hand, make a ring with your left hand, and sit facing each other.

Put your index finger into your partner’s ring, and at the cue “Pika-pika Goro-goro Dokaaan,” pull out your index finger and close your left hand.

It’s a game you can enjoy with two people or in a group! Whether it goes well or not, without getting hung up on the outcome, everyone can laugh and have fun, which should help ease seniors’ tension.

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Paper Cup Whack-a-Mole

[100-yen shop] Super-exciting recreation with a paper-cup Whac-A-Mole

Whack-a-mole is a simple game that can be enjoyed across generations.

It’s easy to make with materials you can quickly get at a 100-yen shop, so it’s great for day service centers too! Attach a pair of chopsticks to a paper cup to make a hammer.

Next, draw mole illustrations on several paper cups.

Place the hammer over the cups and compete to see how many you can catch! If participants hold the hammer with their non-dominant hand, it can help train the hand and stimulate brain activity.

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Capsule Korokoro

This gets everyone super hyped ⬆️ The capsule rolls around~ 🤣 #seniorActivities #brainTraining #miniGame #shorts #dayService

You’ve probably seen capsule toy machines filled with toys and merchandise at arcades or supermarkets.

Let’s use those round capsules to play a lively game.

Attach a stick to an empty tissue box and use it to roll a capsule across a table.

The goal is to land the capsule in a target without letting it fall off the table.

To make the game even more fun, create gaps between the targets.

Placing the capsule without dropping it into the gaps is a great way for older adults to show their skill.

Cheering on the players and calling out to them can spark interaction with the people around them, too.

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Ice Cream Game

A simple beanbag-only activity: the Ice Cream Game

The “Ice Cream Game” is simple but exciting: you pack beanbags made to look like scoops of ice cream into a cone.

For the cone part, we decorated budget store traffic cones with a waffle pattern.

You can load them carefully one by one or stuff in a bunch at once—either is fine! It might even reveal a side of someone’s personality you don’t usually see (lol).

Adding a time limit and competing on how many scoops you can pack makes it even more fun.

If you’re looking for an easy activity to liven up a party or event, give this a try.

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