HELP I NEED AN IDEA FOR games or activites to do with mentally retarded adults?

Question

I have a school project and i need help!! it is due tom. and i need help finding an activity or game for mentally disabled individuals. Any ideas?? i need help!

Answer 1

Bingo, dominoes, model making with clay/Plasticine, baking, going to cinema. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Group singing was always enjoyed a great deal when I worked with these adults.

Answer 3

You could make bookmarks with beads on the end, or else they could make their own stationary by adding stamps or stickers to it.

Google: Claudia Allen or Allen's cognitive levels for more ideas that correlate to individual cognitive abilities.

Answer 4

They might be good at BINGO, especially if you can find the BINGO game with pictures.

Answer 5

Our Girl Scout troop used to visit an adult day care center a couple of times a year. We always did crafts with the clients and the ones they enjoyed the most were making cards with folded paper and LOTS of stickers and making bracelets with pipe cleaners and jingle bells.

The good thing about the bracelets was we could use them when we sang songs after. Our "signature song" was "If You're Happy and You Know It" so we added a verse with "If you're happy and you know it, ring your bells!" and had everyone shake their bracelets. It was a real show stopper :-)

Answer 6

It depends on the level of disability. Card games like Go Fish, Crazy Eights, or Slap Jack might be good. You could try simple board games, scrapbooking, making homemade cards, baking cookies, easy arts and crafts, looking through magazines together, reading to the person. This is a great opportunity for creativity.

Answer 7

Try a memory game with large pictures on the cards. Start with 10 pairs of pictures. Laminate the cards to make them last longer. Good luck. Roxanne

Answer 8

I worked at a Day Program for MR adults for the past two years. They enjoyed playing Deal or No Deal and Wheel of Fortune using the computer. We would use an adapted computer mouse w/ a big button switch to activate the computer. They highly enjoyed me saying "no deal" or "spin the wheel."

In my group I had 3 wheel chairs (2 CP, 1 Rhetts Syndrome), 3 low verbal clients (1 always sang the McDonalds theme song and the other two spoke common phrases), and 1 was nonverbal austistic. They wouldn't pay attention to the game that much, but it was better than doing arts and crafts and reading books all day.

We'd normally do our activities for 30 minute intervals.

930am-10am watch/listen to CNN (teachers get organized, read notes, empty bags, take jackets off, position people)

10am-1030am activity 1 - computer games (mondays)

1030am-11am lunch prep (clean up, set up lunch, bathroom)

11am-12pm lunch and lunch cleanup

1230pm -1pm activity 2 - art activity (mondays)

1pm-130pm clean up, socialization

130pm-2pm load on the vans and clean up room

I recommend setting up a 30 minute set schedule everyday so that the individuals know what to expect. Austistic individuals need schedules so they can expect what comes next. Plus it helps with substitutes - they will know how long activities last and what they need to do next.