Celebrate your favorite colleges, teams, and colors with some of these ideas!
Games & Activities!
Let everyone dress in their alma-mater or favorite team either by wearing a jersey or team colors. Or even have them dress as referees, football players or cheerleaders.
See if your residents have any throwback photos of their time spent in college.
Go beyond! Contact your local high school and see if the band will come play for the residents from the parking lot. Maybe even the cheerleaders and football players. (Be sure to get your residents to wear the team colors to show their support) This may even be good publicity for your local newspaper or the High School paper.
Have a tailgate themed party or happy hour. Use some of these easy to make tissue paperpom pomsfor some of the decorations or thesepennantsandmegaphones.Easily add the residents’ names or their favorite team to them and string them together in your activity room or use on their front door for decoration.
Games
Tie strings around water bottles let the resident hold one end tied to a wooden dowel. See who can roll the string around the dowel without tipping over the water bottle.
Pull out the cornhole games, ring toss or even do a painter’s tape tic tac toe board and use bean bags to play.
Here’s an cute minute to win it type game. Gather a stack of red solo cups (about 19) and only one blue one (for a total of 20 cups). (You’ll need a stack for each team participating) players must take one cup from the top of the stack and move it to the bottom until they have reached the blue cup at the bottom again, then repeat the process with all other participants on the team. The game continues in this way until the blue cup has gone through the entire stack of cups and resumes its original place at the bottom. Check it outhere.