[Nursing Home] Recommended for Sports Day! Lively Recreational Activities

Table hockey

[Mini-Game] Fired-up 🔥🏑 Table Hockey 🏑 #shorts #dayservice #recreation #seniors #minigame #hockey #rehabilitation #caregiving #carefacility #Yamanashi #Kofu

Introducing table hockey, a game that’s a blast whether you’re playing with a small group or a larger one.

Since you play seated, anyone can join in.

Cover the table so the ball won’t fall off anywhere except from the two ends.

Make strikers out of cardboard, place the ball in the center of the table, and you’re ready to go! Play to five points—the winner is the one who sends the ball off the opponent’s end of the table.

It’s fun while also helping to build arm strength, reaction speed, and decision-making, so it can be used as an occupational therapy activity as well.

Give it a try!

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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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Hand-wrapping newspaper

Senior activity: super easy, can be done seated with both hands or one hand—newspaper roll-up. #RecreationForSeniors #Newspaper #Easy

Here’s a fun recreation activity using newspaper! The rules are simple: compete to see how fast you can roll up the newspaper using your hands.

You can make it more fun by setting different rules, like using both hands or only one hand.

Another exciting variation is to face each other and roll up the same sheet of newspaper from opposite ends to see who can roll up more.

The heated competition will get older adults watching to enjoy it together as well! This activity can be done while seated, so people who have difficulty standing or who use a wheelchair can also take part.

Fan Beanbag Relay

Ojami Relay #Recreation #DayServiceRecreation #DayService

Let me introduce a fan-and-beanbag relay that everyone can enjoy.

Have participants sit in chairs in a single row, and use handheld fans to pass along a beanbag.

Because it’s done while seated, even people who find it difficult to stand or move their bodies can likely take part.

Since both the fan and the beanbag are light, it doesn’t require much strength.

And with fans and beanbags, there’s less risk of injury if something is dropped.

Through the relay, people will call out to one another and work together as a team.

It might even spark new interactions.

You can also make it more exciting by forming two lines and holding a head-to-head relay competition.

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Nakajima Junko

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Beanbag Catch Relay

Beanbag Catch with a Bucket [Senior Recreation]

Using beanbags and a bucket, here’s a beanbag catch relay.

Have older adults sit in a row on chairs.

Give the person at one end a bucket, and have each person catch the beanbag that comes their way using the bucket.

After catching the beanbag, pass the bucket to the next person.

Catching the beanbag that flies toward you is said to help train reflexes.

Because participants move their bodies while seated, it provides both brain training and exercise at the same time.

Once everyone gets used to it, try gradually adjusting the speed—like throwing the beanbag faster.

It really livens things up, and tasks that feel a bit challenging are also said to help activate the brain.

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Nakajima Junko

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Tossing beanbags toward the swaying basket

[Elderly Recreation] Throw beanbags aiming at a swinging basket #dayservice #recreation #rehabilitation

Here’s a fun game using beanbags.

You throw beanbags into a hanging basket—much like the ball-toss game often played at school sports days.

Many older adults are familiar with this type of game, so it should be easy to get into.

Like the traditional ball toss, the rules are simple, but this version gets progressively more difficult.

The more beanbags you throw, the more the hanging basket swings, making it harder to land your throws.

You’ll also need to watch the basket and time your throws, so it engages the brain as well.

When the basket fills up with beanbags, older participants are likely to feel a real sense of accomplishment.

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Nakajima Junko

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Plastic bottle bowling with your feet

[Rec & Play Encyclopedia #4] Fun Foot Rehabilitation: Foot-Powered Plastic Bottle Bowling

It’s a bowling-like game where you kick a ball to knock down as many plastic bottles lined up in front of you as possible.

You sit in a chair and launch the ball using the strength of your legs, so it tests both how to move to generate power and how well you can control direction.

As the distance to the pins increases, the leg strength required and the difficulty of control change, so gradually make it harder and build up your leg muscles.

Playing by real bowling rules—seeing how many you can knock down within a limited number of turns—makes it even more fun and competitive, so that approach is also recommended.

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