Break out the nachos – it’s Super Bowl Sunday!

How to easily decorate for the Game of the Year!

• Use a green table cloth and mark white lines evenly spaced to resemble a football field.
• Use colored cups in the team’s colors.  Put large numbers on the cups to represent the players.  Fill the cups with pretzels, chips, and crackers.
• Serve canned and bottled drinks from a cooler.
• Borrow a couple of helmets from kids and use them as centerpieces.
• Make cupcakes with helmets and footballs on top or sprinkles in the team colors who are playing.
• Use yellow napkins and label the bucket Penalty Flags.
• Have a tailgate themed party or happy hour. Use some of these easy to make tissue paper pom-poms for some of the decorations or these pennants and megaphones. 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 to Play

Field Goal Ring Toss

Make a simple football field goal out of PVC pipes and use it as a ring toss game.

Goldfish Toss

Used colored goldfish and let the residents toss them onto a grass-lined “footfall field”.  See who can get closest to the centerline.

Play Commercial Bingo

Each resident will pick up a blank bingo card and a pen or marker and fill in each of the squares on their card with a type of ad they think they’ll see during the game. For an easier version of the game, fill in categories of commercials like “chips,” “fast-food restaurants,” or “pick up trucks.” To make the game a little more challenging, you could even use specific name brands. Then, as each type of commercial plays, just cross it off on your card; the first person with a Bingo wins!

Conversation Starters for your 1-on-1s

These are great for conversations, or writing prompts! (You can even send written answers into the Resident Tales and have your residents see their writing in print!)

• What was the best Super Bowl you ever remember watching?
• What team uniforms do you think are the best looking?
• What mascot is your favorite? Where do you think it came from?
• What do you consider to be the most memorable Super Bowl commercial?
• Who was your favorite Super Bowl half-time entertainer?

College & Football Themed Movies to Watch

• Remember The Titans (2003) PG
• Brian’s Song (1971) G
• Leatherheads (2008) PG-13
• The Blind Side (2009) PG-13
• The Longest Yard (2005) PG-13
• Friday Night Lights (2006-2011) TV Series – TV-14
• The Replacements (2000) PG-13
• Rudy (1993) PG
• Varsity Blues (1999) R
• Silver Linings Playbook (2012) R
• Radio (2003) PG
• We Are Marshall (2006) PG
• The Game Plan (2007) PG