[For Seniors] Liven Up Cherry-Blossom Viewing! Fun Games and Recreational Activities

Matching game

All you need are paper cups 😆 A matching game with paper cups ✌️ #dayservice recreation #braintraining #senioractivities #minigame #shorts #dementiaprevention

This is a game where you look at the pictures drawn on the bottoms of arranged paper cups and find and match the ones with the same picture.

By searching for matching pictures, you can train concentration, and by quickly stacking the paper cups, you can also encourage awareness of hand movements.

It’s also important to decide what kind of pictures to draw; for example, limiting them to a spring theme lets players enjoy the game visually as well.

Adding trick elements, such as pictures that look similar but are slightly different, is recommended, as it helps players focus even more on their hands.

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Gesture Game

For icebreakers! Fun for adults and kids! 20 gesture game prompts: “Animals”!

Spring is the season when warmth returns, so I think more animals will start showing their faces outside.

This is a classic gesture game where you express various things—centered around such animals—through movement and have the people around you guess what they are.

It seems like it would be exciting to see each person’s unique way of thinking, such as what aspects of each theme they focus on and how they express them through movement.

Since it’s important to clearly imagine the theme, including the movements, the game helps develop creativity and concentration.

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Sakura Quiz

2022 Cherry-Blossom Viewing & Sakura Quiz! 12 Questions

When it comes to flowers that symbolize spring, cherry blossoms are the first that come to mind—their beauty evokes a sense of Japanese tradition.

This content invites you to take on a quiz about cherry blossoms, which are strongly associated with the image of spring in Japan, to deepen your interest in the season even further.

In Japan, cherry blossoms are used as motifs in many places, so a wide range of quiz genres seems possible.

By deepening your knowledge about cherry blossoms, you’ll also feel more inspired to go outside and see them in bloom.

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Butterfly, land on the flower.

Getting a head start on spring 🌸 This activity is so fun! Everyone loves it! The butterflies are flying~! #elderly #dayservice #recreation #fun #shorts

When you spot a butterfly, it really feels like spring has arrived, doesn’t it? The way they flutter about is so cute and soothing.

In this article, we’ll introduce a recreation activity that uses butterflies.

First, treat paper plates as flowers and decorate them with origami or markers, then write point values in the center of each plate.

Use a fan to blow the butterflies, and if you land one on a plate, you earn the points written on it.

Moving the fan exercises the hands while also training concentration.

It sounds like it would be great fun and lively whether played individually or in teams.

We hope everyone enjoys a wonderful time with this recreation activity.

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Bamboo Shoot Digging Game

Recreation for seniors: Easy one-handed activity! Bamboo shoot digging

Bamboo shoots are one of the tastes of spring.

Some older adults may have gone bamboo shoot digging themselves.

Here’s a perfect spring-themed bamboo shoot digging game.

All you need are two things: newspaper and paper cups! Roll up the newspaper to make a stick, then attach a paper cup to the tip.

Place more paper cups on the table as “bamboo shoots,” and you’re ready to go.

If you draw pictures on the cups or stick on illustrations, it’ll feel even more like the real thing.

Cover the “bamboo shoots” with the stick’s cup and you can pick them up surprisingly easily.

Set simple rules—like “the first to collect five wins”—to make it more exciting.

It’s a fun activity that also helps train the arms, elbows, and shoulders, so it’s recommended for senior care facilities.

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Korokoro Pon Game

Exciting Activity: The Roly-Poly Pong Game #ElderlyActivities #Shorts

Here’s a tabletop game that uses balls.

Prepare balls of different sizes, such as ping-pong balls or rubber balls about the size of a fist.

An older adult rolls a ball from one end of the table.

On the opposite side of the table from where the older adult is rolling, hang a basket.

The game is to roll the ball and get it into this basket.

It can be played while seated, so it seems suitable for older adults who use wheelchairs as well.

Moments like “It almost went in but didn’t!” are likely to make it exciting for the participants.

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Onigiri Kororin Game

This activity is awesome! So much fun for everyone! Everyone gets excited! The Onigiri Rolling Game 🍙 #dayservice #elderlyrecreation #senior #rehabilitation #daycare #shorts #grandma #onigiri #game

How about trying the sure-to-be-exciting “Rolling Rice Ball Game”? Attach yarn to a paper plate and make rice balls and obstacles.

Place the rice balls you made on the paper plate and start the game! Reel in the yarn, and if you can bring the rice ball all the way to you without dropping it, you succeed.

There are obstacles made from plastic wrap or construction paper along the way, so be careful not to let it fall! The winner is decided both by speed and by how many rice balls you can transport without dropping them.

It’s a recreation activity that gets not only the older adults pulling the string excited, but also everyone watching around them.

Please feel free to use this as a reference!

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