[For Seniors] Enjoy September’s Autumn Fun! A Collection of Craft, Game, and Exercise Ideas

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[Laugh-Inducing Exercise] How to Create Laughter with Just Clapping – Senior Recreation – Smile Up Exercise – Smile Up Taiso

In autumn, when it starts to cool down, many people—regardless of age—suddenly feel the accumulated fatigue from summer and end up not feeling well.

To prevent that, it’s best to make exercise a steady part of your daily routine.

Even if you find working out a hassle, if it’s fun, you’ll want to do it, right? So let’s liven things up with a cheerful exercise that keeps everyone laughing! It’s just clapping along, but this routine always brings out laughter.

Laughing is important for health too—so let’s all move our bodies and give it a try with smiles and laughter!

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Scarf Stretch: ‘I Found a Little Autumn’

Music Recreation/Music Therapy for Seniors [Autumn 11]: I Found Small Autumn: Scarf Stretch

Let’s try a scarf stretch exercise using a scarf! You can do this while seated, so it’s safe.

Holding a scarf helps keep your arms straight and makes it easier to stretch, and it feels great.

Since it moves the entire upper body, it’s also good for relieving stress.

Using a well-known children’s song with an autumn vibe as background music helps you feel the season and creates a sense of unity, so it’s highly recommended.

Try finding a song that’s easy to move to!

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Gymnastics activity: ‘Soran Bushi’

Music Recreation/Music Therapy for Older Adults [Autumn 9]: Soran Bushi Seated Exercises

Let’s all try dancing the Soran Bushi together.

Speaking of Soran Bushi, it’s a song sung by herring fishermen in Hokkaido.

It’s also performed as an event at children’s sports days.

Let’s try adapting Soran Bushi into a seated exercise focusing on the upper body.

It’s safe because you stay seated.

If you slightly lift your hips now and then, you’ll also work the lower body and turn it into a full-body workout.

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Torn-paper collage: Moon-viewing rabbit

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Otsukimi (moon-viewing) is one of Japan’s long-standing traditions.

So, let’s make a moon-viewing scene with a rabbit for the September calendar using torn-paper collage.

Because you use your fingertips to tear and paste the paper onto a backing sheet, this kind of collage can also serve as brain training.

The September moon-viewing is known as Jūgoya or the Harvest Moon and is held on the full moon around September 15.

It became cherished as an autumn harvest festival, and because people offered taro as a prayer for a good harvest, it came to be called Imomeigetsu (“Taro Moon”).

Many older adults may also be very familiar with September’s moon-viewing.

Try making it while chatting about Otsukimi.

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Cosmos and Dragonflies

It varies by variety, but cosmos flowers are at their best around September.

You’ve probably seen fields covered in colorful cosmos, haven’t you? Cosmos is a seasonal word for autumn in haiku, and it also has a commemorative day in September.

Incorporating cosmos— which evoke autumn and September— into a calendar can help older adults feel the season as well.

Cut origami or construction paper into cosmos shapes and paste them onto the calendar backing.

If you also make dragonflies, a quintessential autumn insect, and display them together, you’ll create a piece that conveys an even stronger autumn atmosphere.

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Moon and Cosmos

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For the September calendar, let’s use the moon and cosmos flowers as our theme.

The full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival and cosmos, one of the representative flowers of autumn—cut these two motifs out of origami or construction paper, or fold them with origami, and paste them onto the calendar base.

A calendar featuring graceful cosmos blooming under the harvest moon will help seniors feel the season as well.

It’s said that from September to October is the time when the moon looks most beautiful.

During this period, it rains regularly, washing dust out of the air, so the moon can be seen in clear, crisp skies.

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Moon-Viewing Skewered Dumplings

[Autumn Origami] Make four from one sheet! How to make Otsukimi skewered dumplings [Origami]

Let’s make skewered dumplings for the Moon Viewing festival (Otsukimi) out of origami and add them to a September calendar.

If you divide one sheet of origami paper into four equal parts, you can make four skewers.

First, crease the cut piece of origami paper, then proceed with the folds.

Because these are made with smaller pieces of paper, you’ll use fine motor skills as you fold.

This can also be expected to help stimulate the brain.

Four delicious-looking origami skewered dumplings—some older adults may be reminded of past Moon Viewing celebrations.

This piece can be used not only for calendars, but also for wreaths and wall decorations.

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