Activities for Men

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Activities for Men
Men’s activities are challenging! The best way to find meaningful activities for men is to uncover past lifestyle choices and history - you can gather this information from residents and their families. Here are 8 tips for engaging men in meaningful activities.
Paper Moon Rockets Game
Paper Moon Rockets Game: We have celebrated this wonderful event by making paper darts or planes to represent moon rockets as attached and launching each residents’ dart in turn at a symbol on the floor, a few feet away, to represent the moon.
Numbers, Numbers and More Numbers
Numbers, Numbers and More Numbers: A fun numbers quiz for seniors! I have always had great success with numbers in my experiences.
Scavenger Collages
As the saying goes - One Person's Trash is Another Person's Art - Scavenger Collages can be made of almost anything you find or intend to throw out. This is also a great activity for men in nursing homes.
Hangman & Variations
Hangman - a whiteboard challenge: Choose a word, phrase, movie title, book title, proverb etc & draw the dashes on the whiteboard that represent each letter of the word/phrase.
Matching Activity - Name the Vehicle
Matching Activity - Name the Vehicle: This is a Montessori based activity where images are matched with the words that describe them. The theme for this activity is: Vehicles.
Name the Fishing Equipment
Name the Fishing Equipment: Print the words and image pages, laminate and cut, then match the words with the image.
Fishing Game
Fishing Game: Improve hand-eye coordination and provide some gentle exercise for the upper body with this fun fishing game! A wonderful opportunity to reminisce!
Bean bag Toss
Bean bag Toss: This has always been a very popular game at all the facilities where I have worked. If you don't have a sewing machine ask a volunteer or one of your clients' relatives to do it for you.
Name the Carpentry Tools
Name the Carpentry Tools: Print the words and image pages, laminate and cut, then match the words with the image.
Find The Hidden Objects - Car Yard
Find The Hidden Objects - Car Yard: Find the hidden objects in this car yard illustration!