[Enjoy Safely While Seated] Newspaper Activities Recommended for Seniors

Fishing game

[Elder Care] Recreation Idea: “Fishing Game with Newspaper” — A Recreation Activity for Seniors!

The newspaper fishing game looks fun.

It’s great that older adults can enjoy it safely while seated.

Everyone makes the fish together, then catches them.

It seems like it would bring back memories and a sense of nostalgia.

People who used to love fishing, of course, and even first-timers can enjoy it.

Making the fish as a group will get everyone excited, too.

When it’s time to catch the finished fish, it’ll surely be thrilling.

It also sounds fun for older adults to compete with each other.

Since it uses simple materials, it’s perfect for daily recreation.

Exercises using newspaper

19 exercises in 20 minutes! Fun workouts with just one newspaper! Today's brain training, care prevention, and dementia prevention

Here’s an easy workout you can do using a newspaper! There are several types of “newspaper exercises,” but they mainly serve as physical training.

For example, spread out a sheet of newspaper and fan it up and down.

Because you raise and lower your arms vigorously, it’s great for shoulder movement.

You can also crumple the newspaper into a ball and catch it like a beanbag.

Since you have to track where the ball is, it also requires concentration.

It’s ideal for training both body and brain.

There are many newspaper-based exercises—try choosing ones that suit your physical condition!

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Kawamura Mina

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Treasure Hunt Game

Recreation for Seniors: Super Exciting Brain Training—Beanbag Treasure Hunt Game

It’s a “treasure hunt game” where you hide a beanbag under a paper cup and guess where it is.

The rules are simple, so it seems likely that many older adults would be able to join.

Preparation is easy too—just get some paper cups and a beanbag.

Remembering which cups don’t have the beanbag helps stimulate the brain.

Lifting the cups also serves as hand and arm training.

This time it’s a game to guess the hidden beanbag, but you can enjoy it with variations.

Draw pictures, such as fruits or fish, on the bottoms of the paper cups.

You can devise games where you try to find the picture that matches a given theme from among the cups.

It’s fun to play solo, and it’s also an engaging game to compete in pairs.

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Nakajima Junko

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Stick Catch

[For Seniors] Energize body and mind ✨ Preventive care with Newspaper Gymnastics: “Stick Catch (Pairs)” #shorts #preventivecareexercise #preventivecare #newspaperstick #newspaperstickexercise #newspapergymnastics #healthexercise #seniors #100yearlifespan

We all want to stay healthy and live long, don’t we? Try using a newspaper-stick catch game as a way to help prevent the need for care.

Divide older adults into pairs and have them sit facing each other in chairs.

One person throws a stick made from rolled-up newspaper with one hand to their partner, who catches it with one hand as well.

In the actions of throwing and catching, it’s important to see how well the pair can synchronize with each other! Why not try this recreation activity, which lets you enjoy communication while addressing lack of exercise and working on care prevention?

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Towel relay with newspaper

2 Recreation Mini-Activities You Can Do with a Newspaper Stick and a Towel

Here are two games that use newspapers and are great for getting a large group excited.

The first is the Newspaper Towel Relay.

Have older adults sit in a circle, and use a long, rolled-up newspaper stick to pass a towel to the person next to them.

The person who receives it last should throw their hands up and shout to signal the goal.

The second is the Towel Catch Game.

The person holding the towel throws it toward a teammate, and the teammate catches it with a newspaper stick.

The thrower needs to control the strength of their throw, and the receiver needs to imagine where it will fly in order to catch it well.

Recreational activities that get lots of people involved can spark conversations between those who don’t usually interact.

Enjoy these activities that help expand your circle.

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Newspaper Dart

Today's activity: Newspaper Darts

Let me introduce Newspaper Darts.

Cut holes—circles, triangles, squares, etc.—into a large cardboard box and assign points to each.

To prevent the edges of the holes from tearing, it’s a good idea to reinforce them with vinyl tape or similar.

Roll up sheets of newspaper tightly to make long, thin sticks.

This recreation uses those newspaper sticks as darts! Compete by totaling the points of the holes you throw them into.

It’ll be exciting as a team competition, too! It’s a game that involves raising your arm and concentrating to aim for the holes—perfect as a recreation activity in senior care facilities.

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Giant Triangular Tower

Senior recreation: super simple, quick, and fun—Newspaper Tower #activities_for_seniors #newspaper #exciting

It’s a very simple game, but actually tricky! Try the newspaper tower challenge! Lay a sheet of newspaper lengthwise and fold it so it becomes a quarter of its original width.

Next, fold it into a triangular prism shape and tuck in the end.

Because it stores flat once folded, you can make it once and play again and again, which is nice.

The rules for the newspaper tower are simple: stack the triangular pieces of newspaper on top of each other and compete to see how many you can pile up.

People watching should call out instructions like, “A little to the right, left, it’s leaning!” This also helps promote communication.

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