Benefits

- Encourages residents to remain socially and physically active in group-based games

- Serves as a form of active engagement in meaningful activities

Roles of volunteers: 1-2 volunteers per session per RLA

- Volunteers to assist in setting up the environment, facilitating gameplay & ensuring resident’s safety during the activities

1. Seated balloon badminton:

- Arrange residents in a circular formation, ensuring sufficient space between residents to minimise risk of accidentally hitting each other with the badminton racket

- Allow residents to take turns to serve the balloon to start the game

- Facilitate gameplay by ensuring that balloon does not touch the floor &/or retrieving the balloon when it flies out of the circle - Badminton rackets.

- Balloons - Kindly ensure seatbelts & wheelchair locks are secured when residents are seated in the wheelchair

- Kindly assist residents when they try to reach for the balloon/ball which lands on the floor

2. Seated kicking of the ball:

- Arrange residents in a circular / line formation (with residents seated opposite each other), ensuring sufficient space between residents to minimise risk of accidentally kicking each other

- Allow residents to take turns to kick the ball to one another

- Facilitate gameplay by retrieving the ball when it rolls out of the resident’s reach - Balls of different sizes

3. Seated basketball:

- Arrange residents in a line formation, facing the basketball hoop

- Allow residents to take turns to throw the ball into the hoop

- Facilitate gameplay by retrieving the ball when it rolls out of the resident’s reach - Basketball hoop