[For Seniors] Introducing Whiteboard Activities That Liven Up Spring!

Picture shiritori

Recreation for the elderly – A hit! Lively and exciting! Whiteboard activities roundup: 22 selections

There’s a word shiritori activity using a whiteboard, but let’s try turning the words into drawings instead.

Ask the older adults to provide words that form a shiritori chain.

Convert each word into a picture and draw it on the whiteboard.

When the shiritori ends, you can play an even more fun game.

Cover the drawings on the whiteboard with paper and have the older adults recall them.

Show only the first drawing, and then have everyone think about what word comes next.

Please guide the activity by giving hints and incorporating episodes from the shiritori session as you go.

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Nakajima Junko

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Brain training erasing letters on a whiteboard

Recreation for seniors: COVID-era activities, easy on a whiteboard, brain training! Letter Erasing

It’s a game where the 50 Japanese syllables are written on a whiteboard, and you make words using those characters.

Each character you use is erased from the board, and the goal is to create as many words as possible.

The key point is that you can’t use the same character again, so be mindful of which characters you should leave for later as you play.

If you start without thinking, you’ll tend to use the easy characters early on, so it’s recommended to deliberately come up with words that use the more difficult characters first.

Rather than just going with whatever words come to mind, it might be better to plan with the endgame in mind as you proceed.

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kappamaki

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Spring Holiday & Event Guessing Game

[Prevent Running Out of Ideas] Whiteboard Activity Using Dates and the Japanese Syllabary (A–I–U–E–O) [Cognitive Training for Seniors]

This is a game where players name spring holidays and events.

Let’s define spring as March through May and have everyone give their answers.

When it comes to spring holidays, examples include the Vernal Equinox Day, Greenery Day, and Children’s Day.

For events, there are things like cherry-blossom viewing, the Doll Festival, and Mother’s Day.

The number of official holidays is fixed, but there are many possible events to list, so try to recall your memories of springs you’ve experienced and see what you can remember.

The person who gives the most answers is the winner, and you could also have them share a story about a spring memory.

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sasashina

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Animal Memory Rec

[Senior Brain Training × Care Recreation] Memory Training 18 – Dementia Prevention and Care Prevention Video for the Elderly [Fukukuru]

People aged 75 and over are now required to take a Cognitive Function Test to renew their driver’s license.

Even those who don’t have much trouble remembering things can feel a bit nervous when they know they’re going to be tested.

How about livening things up with a memory-training game similar to that test? Here’s a simple way to run it: first, show 8–10 animal illustrations—or just the words if you don’t have pictures—have the participant memorize them, then ask them to write them on a whiteboard.

Adjust the difficulty by changing the number of animals or the memorization time.

If you have a whiteboard, it should be fun even outdoors.

A quiz where you guess what the initials stand for

[One-Character Quiz Brain Training] What do these initials stand for? Let's have fun with a whiteboard!

It might have been the most popular variety show of the 1990s.

Even if you don’t know the show itself, you’ve probably heard the phrase “Magical Banana.” Yes, this brain-training game was a big hit on “Magical Zunō Power!” It uses only hiragana to depict illustrations—a quiz where intuition and flashes of insight are key.

You express faces or animals using only initial letters, targeting that sweet spot of “almost obvious but not quite,” making it a truly addictive brain workout.

No drawing skills required, so even people who aren’t good at drawing are totally fine!