What is the activity: Using the popping of balloons to reveal questions for to provide socialization, reminiscing, and interaction between participants!
Instruction on how to facilitate the activity:
Begin be writing a variety of reminisce questions/statements on small slips of paper.
Examples:
Who taught you how to drive?
Tell us about your first date.
Describe the house you grew up in.
What was your first job?
Tell us about your best childhood friend.
What do you remember about your grandparents?
Place one slip into each balloon. Seat residents in a circle with balloon on the floor in the middle. Have one resident pick a color balloon. We have the staff pop the balloons with scissors as the residents don't like to do it themselves. The resident then answers the question. We will also go around the circle and have all residents answer. You then go to the next resident in the circle and have them pick a balloon.
Who might benefit from this activity:
Children, geriatrics, virtually anyone!
Materials Needed: Balloons in a variety of colors, a scissors or pin, as well as paper and pencil.
Contradictions: They suggest that this was used with a geriatric population but I am concerned that the sound of the popping of multiple balloons might be too much!
Special Considerations:
Safety of the participants
Excessive sound of the activity (consideration for other residents)
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