I Thought I would share an idea we came up with for our Melbourne cup Party with everyone. We had all residents sitting at tables, each table had to pick a name for their horse. On a table in the room where the residents could see we had a large sheet of paper drawn up with squares to represent the barriers and racetrack and we used upturned paper cups with cut out pictures of horses and their number attached. Each table had a turn at rolling a large dice, but before they could move they would have to answer a trivia question correctly. This was a lot of fun as the race was called with some very funny names. We thought this would be easier for the mobility impaired residents. It might be a useful idea for next year!
Once again Golden Carers has come to the rescue. I live in a retirement village and calling on my years as a Diversional Therapist I constantly use the Golden Carers for new ideas to run my group in the village. I especially love the Read Aloud Audience Participation activity and I always pick a very shy resident to take a part. It is amazing how much it brings them out of their shell. The quiz always helps keeps their minds active and gives them such a feeling of self worth when they get a correct answer.