Difficulty Low
Duration 45-60 minutes
Type of activity Warm-up
Season Any
Occasion Any
Suitability Physically fit
Locations Indoor
Tools
CD player
scarf
Goal
The objective is to enhance motoric skills, movement coordination and physical fitness. Benefit of this activity is shared experience of all participants. Appropriate music might be folk and country songs and dances.
Intergenerational benefits
Understanding and relationship building
Understanding and relationship building
The activity promotes the understanding and appreciation of the attitudes, opinions, and experiences which different generations bring to the relationships, understanding and avoiding generational stereotypes and fostering tolerance of different lifestyles and an appreciation for cultural heritages, traditions and histories.
Intergenerational learning and skill sharing
Intergenerational learning and skill sharing
The activity promotes learning and skill sharing among younger and older generations. It involves the sharing of positive resources that the young and old have to offer each other, especially the experience with novelties of modern times and valuable life lessons as well as cultural and familiar traditions.
Health and wellbeing
Health and wellbeing
The activity promotes physical and mental well-being. It has a positive impact on the quality of life (feeling of self-worth and a reduction in loneliness and isolation, promotion of physical and cognitive activity).
Personal impact
Personal impact
Developing soft skills (like empathy, confidence, communication abilities, learning skills) and developing their own strengths and talents.
Cognitive skills
Cognitive skills
Supporting mental / brain-based skills we need to do anything from the simplest to the most complex tasks:perception, attention, memory, motor skills, language, visual and spatial processing, executive functions.
Community involvement
Community involvement
The activity increases confidence and involvement within the community. It offers a starting point that could have a positive impact within the community.
Step by Step
- Seniors and children warm up together according to the level of their physical condition.
- Golden gate - pair of participants form a gate facing each other. Against each other standing participants join hands (may use the scarf) and create a gate. Rest of participants are walking one by one through the gate while listening the music and once the music stops, standing participants using jointed hands capture passing participants. Caught participant than switch the place and is doing the gate.
- Scarf dance - participants form pairs or groups up to four and place a scarf in the middle with each of them holding one corner. The idea is to try to make the scarf “dance” to the rhythm of the music without actually dropping it.
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