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Charades Game for Seniors

Charades Game for Seniors
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Charades is a game suitable for all ages! It involves acting out words or phrases printed on cards.

A game of charades provides a wonderful two-way communication opportunity that can strengthen interpersonal skills. It is also a great work-out for the brain!

In this article we cover:

  • How to Play Charades with the Elderly
  • Seated Charades Cards for the Elderly - Print & Play!
  • Extending the Game
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Wendy avatar

we had a lot of fun playing charades, and came up with some great ideas - easy ones, I just thought if you were able to put up some blank cards so we could make our own. thanks heaps

Maurice avatar

Hi Wendy!

Great suggestion, we've added 2 blank pages to the end, one in colour and one light grey.

You can print off several copies of these to write on them.

Good luck :)

Talita avatar

Yes, will do! Thanks for the suggestion Wendy.

Mandy avatar
Mandy Lifestyle and Well being Team Leader

We played for the first time yesterday and had a great giggle. We played as a group and mostly seated. It was heaps of fun and I had only positive feedback from everyone.

Talita avatar

So nice to hear Mandy! Thanks so much for your feedback!

Diane avatar

I introduced Charades about 4 months ago and it's now a favorite. It took a while to get people out for it but once they saw how fun it was it didn't take long to get a bigger group together. We truly spend an hour laughing! I mostly just use action words (fishing, dancing, typing, building a camp fire, etc) as they are easy to act out. We also do it as a group activity not in teams and that seems to work well. Thank you for some new words to add to the one's I have!

Talita avatar

Ah that's lovely to hear how much they enjoy a game of Charades! Thanks for your feedback Diane.

Tricia avatar
Tricia Occupational Therapy Assistant

Charades is one of the most fun activities - family played it this past Christmas. It is incredibly challenging to do everything with sign language and not speak while you are doing this. Good on you for posting a version of the game (for free) so that we can use this with our Residents. I will definately be giving this a go.... it is alot of laughs!!

Talita avatar

Thanks so much for your feedback Tricia!

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