Help it's the Olympics, I don't know what to do!

Help it's the Olympics, I don't know what to do!

My lovely AC's it's the Olympics on Friday (05/08/16) and you can see everyone is going on about it and even making to die for displays and crafts.

Things like this can often make you feel overwhelmed and compelled to do your own little shindig of activities. But where do you start?

Fear not , I have put together a sheet with  the most cost effective activity ideas for you that cost next to nothing to help you out .

Activities that you can do-

What to do if you have no budget or it's very limited-

Okay, there are a few craft activities that you can do which are age appropriate for your residents which are-

Make an Olympic torch- Either use brown sugar paper, plain painted paper or card or silver /gold glitter paper, role it into a cone and for the flame effect use red, yellow and orange tissue paper.

Or kitchen foil wrapped around your cone shape.

Scrunch the paper into the cone and cut with scissors to create a flame effect.

If you do not have tissue paper use normal paper that has been painted and you can cut into flame shape.

The Olympic Rings-

You can either paint your own or use paper plates that be painted and the centres cut out.

Or-Olympic ring printing

You will need:

5 cardboard tubes

Paint in red, green, black, yellow and blue
Glue stick
Sticky tape
Scissors

Instructions:

Paint each tube in a different colour and leave to dry.

Dip the end of each tube into one of the colours and print onto paper. Make sure you look at a picture of the Olympic Rings so you can print your colours in the right order.

Olive Crowns

You will need:

Green construction paper

Cut a strip of paper about 1 1/2 inches wide. Measure it around the child’s head and cut to size. Cut out lots of leaf shapes and glue them along the length of the strip, leaving a couple of inches at either end. Tape the two ends of the band together.

Word Searches-

You can download word searches for free at http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/olympic-games-word-search

for your residents to do.

Olympic themed Hang Man-

Play the game as an activity but all words used must be Olympic themed.

Indoor Olympic Challenge-

You can make up your own armchair based Olympic sports competition such as bean bag toss into a bucket.

Make your paper target game – draw the Olympic rings onto paper and do a few of each ring, decide how many points each ring is worth and spread around on the floor and get the residents to throw a couple bean bags each turn and tally up the scores and whoever gets the most is the winner.

Quiz- Download quiz question sheets off the internet here to use with your residents-http://www.paulsquiz.com/sports-quizzes-mainmenu-326/202-free-quiz-questions/71-sports-quizzes/2905-olympic-games-quiz-3

Reminiscence – Use the Olympics to discuss the sports and sporting traditions of residents and ask about what people remember of the 2012 games when London hosted the games.

Ask people to share what sports they enjoy doing and their favourite sport to watch at the Olympics.

There is so much more that you can do but it's the fact that it is marked and we keep our residents up to date in a interactional, enjoyable way with what is current.

Hope this has helped.

Love,

Ann Marie xx