Older persons with
mobility
Board Games
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Bingo with numbers or pictures
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Snakes & Ladders
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Connect 4
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Checkers
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Dominos
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Jenga building blocks
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Quoits (requires throwing small hoops. Can be done standing up or sitting down) sit back 3 metres and aim to get it over the target.
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Play cards- suipi, last card, go fish, snap, memory game
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Pin the village/town (like pin the tail on the donkey)
Blind fold or ask to close their eyes & pin the village/town print out or drawing on a large A3 paper or scrap book. -
Painting on a canvas
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Colouring in – felt pens and colouring in books
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Arts and crafts
What you will need
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Board games vary from
The Warehouse, Kmart, $2 bargain stores between $7-$25.
Or create your own out of cardboard, paper, scissors, glue, felt pens, look items that can be used as counters. E.g., Little stones/pebbles, search through the kid’s drawers in their rooms.
Find an old vase/container/empty small box. Select flowers/plants in your backyard or buy artificial from the $2 bargain stores.
Acrylic paints, blank canvas, paint brush & stencil sets at the above stores.
Ask permission, but also check mum’s linen cupboard for used material fabrics, table cloths, old sheets. You can create together a small patchwork cloth for the tray table or a cover for the cushion.
Something personal will be of sentimental value to the creation.
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Exercise & Physical Activity
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Dancing to music –
Turn on their favourite music they grew up with -
Very light exercise, depending on their stage
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Indoor bowls
In a circle each family member sitting down. Place the white ball anywhere within the circle. In 2 teams blue and red (whatever colours you have)
Each member will alternate to throw their colour team ball. The closest colour ball to the white ball wins. -
Cooking & baking
What you will need
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Phone/speaker/tv/youtube/radio
Indoor bowls -Get creative! Roll up coloured socks and use black or white socks as the target. Buy packet of coloured tennis balls at the Warehouse ($15) or Buy sensory coloured balls at Kmart/The Warehouse (*-$15)
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Go Out and About
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Go shopping together
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A car ride & buy their favourite
ice-cream/treat -
Visit their favourite place around town
What you will need
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Reliable car
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Reminisce about their LIfe
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Start interviewing taking videos of your loved one.
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Watch favourite videos of their culture, songs/music/movies
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Look through photos and make a photo album
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Watch family videos together
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Ask about their favourite memories around a particular topic, what they remember about their parents/siblings/going on the bus rides around the island/swimming at the local beach, family bar b ques/ shopping at the local market.
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Bible Games | Reading
Quizzes
www.ministry-to-children.com
https://theshirleyjourney.com/10-bible-games-for-families
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Look up chapter….Each person will have or share a bible. Can be done individually or in teams of 2.
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With a closed bible, the caller will then have a chapter open and call out to the family…The first person to look up Psalms 1 v 3….
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The first person to read out the correct chapter and verse will gain 1 point.
What you will need
English or bible in your own language