The best ideas for Fun Activities & Games for seniors
Fun activities and games for seniors are a great way to engage them in homes. It’s always good for senior people to laugh. Doing such fun activities and games for seniors few days a week or even every day can keep the elderly people happier and healthier.
In this blog, we have mentioned numerous fun activities and games for seniors at home and at senior’s community center with the help of caregivers.
- Story Telling with gorgeous Hat – This is very simple and highly engaging fun activity. With this activity, the hat wearing senior will wear a nice good colour hat and narrates a story. This frequently helps them to review an old memory or fantasize about something they might want to do.
- Golf & Fishing – Go golfing with your caregivers or play a round of mini golf. Find a pond and go for fishing. Seniors enjoy these activities in group or even with their family members.
- Flower Plantation and preparing a hanging basket – Engaging gardening activities and preparing a hanging basket is an amazing indoor activity for senior. Colourful flowers attract everyone. Gardening brightens seniors live and feel them also beautiful & young. Doing gardening activities together family members allows them to build relationships through doing the things their clients enjoy most.
- Fruity Saturday to visit Family or Friends
- Funny Arts work
- Making greeting cards
- Block painting
- Drawing
- Knitting
- Crocheting
- Photography
- Sewing
- Scrapbooking
- Making foam magnets
- Flower arranging
- Painting
- Fun activities and games for seniors Hobbies
- Dancing
- Cooking or making cake
- Preparing Favourite chocolate ice-cream
- Scrapbooking
- Photography
- Gourmet cooking
- Fun and Health Activities
- Go for walks with friends and family.
- Practicing Yoga at seniors centers or community centres
- Meditation & Pranayama
- Light stretching exercises in Group
- Swimming
- Laughing loudly
- Kitty Parties and Social gathering
- One minute all sweets finishing games
- Peeling potatoes games
- Lock & Key games
- Playing Cards
- Paper couple games
- One minute funny tongue twisters game.
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Hello, I’m the director of our senior center and I am thinking about opening the center back up in May. We are a very small community and there isn’t many seniors that will come to the center. Even when we were open before the covid hit, not many would come and I know we have more then 5 or 6 seniors in our town!! I just need something to get them in here!! I just need help getting our seniors to come!! I need ideas and how to go about getting them to come and be social! Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Play a Getting Acquainted or also known as Getting to Know You game. First part of game, make up 5 questions, i.e. Where did you grow up? What is your fondest memory of where you grew up? What was your favorite age? and so on. You pick one question at a time, and each person at the table answers each of the questions. Allow about 15 mins. It gets everyone talking about themselves to each other. Parts 2 & 3 – make up 2 sheets with 10 Trivia questions, as a team they each answer questions, then as a team they decide which will be the correct answer and get 1 point for each correct answer. Once you give out answers, table with highest score will get a prize. Play 2 games separately, so 2 tables will win a prize. We buy useful items at dollar store and set them on a separate table. If you have 8 at a table, you can buy 16 items. 8 for each game. We usually buy double the amount and have 2 tables win each game.