Musical Scattergories

ACTIVITY OUTLINE

Title: Musical Scattergories

Domain: cognitive

Population: Adult Mental Health (Forensics)

Category: leisure activity, team building

Materials: Subject cards, pencil and paper for each team, timer

Procedures:
1. Have clients divide into teams
2. Give each team a pencil and paper
3. Draw a card with a category on it and share it with everyone
4. Set timer for desired amount of time
5. Teams think of as many song titles as they can that fit into the category drawn on the card.
6. When time runs out, each team gets one point for each song they thought of. To get credit for the point someone from the team must be able to sing part of the song.
7. Whoever has the most points at the end wins.

Behavioral Observation: Participation, teamwork, memory skills

Source: http://www.recreationtherapy.com/tx/txgmpsv.htm, additional categories by me.

Submitted by: Bethany Clayton; 3/10/2010

Waistin' Time

ACTIVITY OUTLINE

Title: Wastin’ Time

Domain: Social

Population: Adult Mental Health (Forensics)

Category: Lyric analysis, sing along, leisure skills

Materials: Guitar or piano, chords to “Dock of the Bay” by Otis Redding, copies of “Leisure Activities!” handout (attached), copies of lyrics to “Dock of the Bay” by Otis Redding for each client, white board and marker, or chalkboard with chalk.

Procedures:

1. Hand out lyrics to “Dock of the Bay” to all clients and introduce song
2. Play song and encourage clients to sing along.
3. Discuss lyrics of song and what “leisure time” is.
4. Have clients come up with 50 (or 75, or 100) positive leisure activities and write them on the board
5. Have clients figure out how many hours of leisure time they have per week (Subtract amount of time for work, sleep, eating, bathing from 168 hours).
6. At the end of group hand out copies of leisure activities list for clients to keep
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Behavioral Observations: Participation, reality orientation, appropriate responses, leisure skills

Source: Song by Otis Redding; List of Leisure Activities by me.

Lyrics: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B6lFAbZBDCCPZTcwNjY0NjktODQ4ZS00NjkzLThkM2MtNGEyMDBlOTcyOTUx&hl=en

Leisure Activities List: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B6lFAbZBDCCPYWNhOGJmNjUtMjZmNy00NjAwLWFlNjAtMWUzNWM3OTAwZDI4&hl=en

Submitted by: Bethany Clayton; 3/1/2010