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Object:
Reminiscing, engaging in conversation, cognitive exercise.
Preparation & Materials:
- Prepare the room with a large sign in cardboard entitled "The Price Is Right".
(This could be made by the residents the day before in a craft session).
- Borrow some grocery items from the kitchen such as: a can of bean, a packet of matches, a small packet of coffee, vegemite, eggs, and any other items.
- Have suitable small prizes ready including items such as combs, lotions, talcum powders etc to give to those who are unable to eat chocolate and other sweets.
Instructions:
- Place borrowed items on a table in the middle of the room with residents in a large circle around it.
- Ask residents to guess the price of the groceries, one by one. Take the opportunity to engage them in reminiscing about the prices of groceries in the past.
- Give prizes to those that came closest to the right price.
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Posted by: Yoona | 2nd July 2008 View profile
This is a good way to reminisce, making a game and so encouraging people to remember. Great.
Posted by: Jen Freeman | 4th October 2008 View profile
This is a great idea! I love activities that encourage thinking in a group and in a fun way as they are non-threatening to participants Great.
Posted by: Diana Teijaro | 10th March 2009 View profile
I love Price is right! Another fun game that came from it, purely by accident one day we had played the game and a gentleman in our dementia unit picked up the duct tape off of the table and said asked what it was, I started to explain to him in my theatrical way, what it was and what amazing things you can do with it, another resident who rarely spoke, picked up a can of Coffee and began to do the same with it. We were all laughing and taking turns, doing comercials for the items on the table. Then the next week we played " You Can Sell Anything!" i like to find odd objects and bring them in. I keep my eyes open all of the time around the community. I even had nurses and maintenance men bring me things and everyone stops in while we play our game.
Posted by: Rachel | 23rd May 2009 View profile
I played this game with my residents and they absolutely loved it! They all wanted to play again.I made a huge oversized cheque as the first prize had a small toy car as the second prize and third prize was a 'Trip for one to Hawaii"!
Posted by: jeannette | 23rd September 2009 View profile
Prizes are a great idea ,love the large cheque ,car prize & trip for one,terrific i will be using this thanks. In our facility our residents are not allowed to use talcum powder as it is deemed unsafe.Just thought i would pass that on.
Posted by: Heather | 6th October 2010 View profile
This game turned out interesting for our facility, we have three units high care dementia, low care dementia and hostel and all residents loved the price is right game. lots of discussion about products,packaging and price developed. The interesting things was that they competed against each other (there choice) and high care won, followed by low care dementia and then hostel... resident may have dementia but games like this prove they still have it.. (old saying use it or lose certainly proves true for my residents
Posted by: Barbara | 23rd March 2011 View profile
I played this game today. Chose grocery items from my pantry. Which gave the resident's, an insight on my life style, this activity went for 90 MINS. Not only staff participated also family members, lots of laughs. Finished with how would you use this article, explaining how I use the article. Went overtime 30 mins. GREAT activity thank you all Barb
Posted by: Solange | 25th March 2011 View profile
Yes Barbara, that game has always been extremely successful for me too. You may vary it sometimes by presenting items that had popular commercials such as coke "the real thing", airplane jelly, beer "I feel like a Tooheys",etc. Just ask participants if they remember the commercials,it is a good memory game.
Posted by: Debbie | 16th October 2011 View profile
When we played this game at our facility we added a twist. I collected eg 6 empty food packets that required cooking, pizza, pasta, frozen salmon, soup beans, porridge and frozen vegetables. Residents had to put them in order of shorts to longest cooking time. Another game we played was with empty bottles of things you might drink, coke,milk,juice,cordial and soft drink. We played by saying you only had $2 so what could you buy from the supermarket if you were thirsty. We also played pick the odd item out, eg soap, toothpaste, shampoo, toothpicks ,deodorant, shower gel. Another version was a selection of foods for a particular meal and residents had to decide which meal eg of an easy one, carton eggs, bread, cereal, juice, bacon and jam ie Breakfast. The price is right was lots of fun and those were also the comments from residents.