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Our folks love this. Our best showing so far was with the word "fireplace". We got 70 words!!!
Thanks so much for your feedback Lorraine! Often the simplest games are the most fun!
Do u have to use all the letters in the words to make new words
You don't have to use all the letters Lori, that way you have many more words you can form.
This is a great game the residents in our facility love it. we sometimes write their name on the board and the group see if they can make up to 50 words out of that name.
I've been doing this for awhile but another way is to go through the alphabet with flowers, names, insects, animals and so on.
I work in a Planned Activity Group and as we have different participants each day we make it a competition between each day. We will do a word relating to any special events eg: Melbourne Cup, New Years Day, Queens Birthday Weekend.
It connects all the groups in some way and starts some great friendly competition.
I like the 9 letter words! Gave the clients word search, while they were doing that I did a few 9 letters on the board, a few were quick to leave the other, try those out & back to word search. Ballerina was one not picked up quickly.
I have been doing this for a while I find this a good activity for our residents even those in our high care unit.But I add a twist I make a sentence with the words we have created on the board just to change it up.Making sure there is one persons name to start it off.
I do this activity every week. We had a list provided by someone, but now the residents are providing the words themselves. Once we are finished the residents look at all the words on the board and try to guess how many words they found. The person who gets the closest gets a prize.
I do this activity every week, and prior to the activity, I get all the possible words that can be made. As an extra incentive I give a small gift to the person who can choose the longest word possible from my list.
Thanks Joanne for sending in these ideas!
We do this and call it Build a Word...the residents love this activity
Thanks Heather for submitting the Word Games activity - this is a great idea!
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