Passive Recreation

Passive Rec is recreation and entertainment that anyone can do,

created within your home and community.

Passive Rec is making something out of nothing.

Hours of fun can be found in your very own house.

Fun is in your kitchen, linen closet, and requires only a little bit of imagination.

Passive Recreation

By: Maureen Chaisson and

Hunter Norton

Session 1:

On the Hunt

Session Format

General

Session Format

Small Caution

This format will and very well should change through out this manual due to the unique process of passive rec!

Objective:

Supplies:

Icebreaker: (5-8 mins)

Activity 1: (10-12 mins)

2-3 mins processing

Activity 2: (10-15 mins)

2-3 mins processing

Activity 3: (15 mins)

2-3 mins processing

Activity 4: (10 mins)

2-3 mins processing

Closing (5 mins)

Objective: Communication, problem solving, teamwork and having fun

Supplies: A camera or phone, box of chocolates, gum or other treat, and wrapping paper

Ice breaker: What’s in a present (5-8 mins)

Processing (3-5 mins)

Activity: Scavenger hunt (60 mins)

Processing: 3-5 mins

Manual Sessions:

• The great thing about scavenger hunts is that there is no limit to what you can do with a little bit of imagination.
• Even better, you can have the youth create a scavenger hunt themselves.
• We'll give you the tools so you can do that.

Scavenger Hunts

1. On the Hunt

2. Community Exploration

3. Table Time

4. Dyads and Triads

5. Exploring Nature

6. Only a Minute!

7. Vision Board

8. Home Exploration

Indoor:

• Finding houseold items
• Picture Challenge
• Hide objects and make clues
• Hidden objects - online and printed

Outdoor

• Car Rally
• Picture Challenge
• Hide objects, and make clues
• Nature
• Geocaching

Passive Rec

Rationale

• Passive rec is super important because it's something we are doing every single day and just don't realize it.
• You're all probably sitting here thinkng, "What the heck is passive rec?"
• No one 'knows' what it is.
• But SURPRISE! You do know!
• Do you play cards? Board games? Go to community events?

THAT'S PASSIVE REC!

• In this manual you will find many activities that include games while sitting around a table, using household tools, or exploring the community and what it has to offer. You will be searching for hidden treasures and building your own.

• Almost all activities can be adjusted according to what space you have to work with and what supplies are on hand.

• We are providing you with an outline you can use as is, or that you are able to put your own spin on.

• This manual is designed to be used by youth workers in group homes, however can be ran by anyone with leadership skills.

• The purpose of this first session is to improve communication team work, and problem solving skills.
• These important skills will be worked on and the participants won't even know it.
• While working on skills, this session will be a lot of fun and help youth get involved in simple but fun activities.

• This manual is deisgned to accommodate for any level of development both physical and academic.

• Each youth will be on an equal playing field.

• There are ways to build youth's self-esteem, communication, creativity, and utilize their strengths without the youth even knowing it, by having fun.

• This manual is designed to fill space where youth are bored so they are less likely to use that time to do reckless things such as drugs, alcohol, and other illegal activity.

Picture yourself.

You are a youth worker in a group home during a cold winter storm.

Or rather, a hot summers day. You're either stuck inside with a bunch of teenagers because they CAN'T go outside, or stuck with a bunch of teenagers bothering you because they're 'bored'.

If you're picturing this right now, than this manual is perfect for you!

Need a reminder of the cold snowy PEI storms?

What is it?

Don't have an imagination?

• Don't worry, we have you covered!

• In this manual, you'll find the activities and information necessary to have fun, and the materials are little to no cost for you!

• Don't forget about community. Our communities offer many different forms of entertainment and fun activities.

• They are hidden treasures just waiting to be discovered by people like you!

Session 3

Session 4:

Table Time

This manual will be your best friend, your go to book, and the answer to your prayers!

CAUTION!

• Most activities in this manual can be used for the majority of youth. Some sessions may need to be modified to accomodate for policies and depending on the age of the youth involved.

• Our manual is designed to accommodate for youth ages 14-16 years old with the aim of group homes and other residential settings in order to decrease boredom and promote healthy communication and fun.

Dyads and Tryads

Card Games

Table Time

• Go fish
• Slapjack
• War
• Crazy 8’s or crazy 8 countdown
• Pass the Ace
• Crib
• Old Maid
• Solitaire
• Rummy
• Memory Game
• Building a tower
• Cards and Dice
• Spoons

Rationale

Card Games!

• Fast, fun, easy-to-learn, and inexpensive!
• There's no age limit to have fun

Rationale

• Dyads and triads are great when new youth enter the home or residence.
• It helps youth get to know each other in a comfortable way.
• These work great for quiet and shy youth so they don't feel intimidated and put on the spot.
• It's a great way for youth to use their own skills and strengths to build a better, stronger team.
• And youth will have to learn how to communicate with each other in an effective way through dyads and triads.

• Sitting down to play a card game opens a door to communication, allowing youth to let down their walls and feel comfortabe in a safe environment.
• Card games can be simple and fast or more challenging.
• Card games are great to include youth and workers so they are able to be on an equal level.
• Card games are always different and it's amazing how fast time flies by when having fun.

Hidden Components

Session 5:

Enjoying Nature

Dyads and Triads

• Math skills

- Adding and subracting

- Memory

• Team building

- Having partners

• Communication

- Communication can be at it's best with a card game. Some of the best conversations are around a kitchen table while having fun.

• Dyads and triads are very important to break up cliques and to get every person involved.
• It lessens members feelings of intimidation.

Some Examples are:

-Wheel barrow racing

- 3 legged race

-Back to back

-Pictionary

-Charades

-Find the differences

-Balloon Volleyball

-On Stage/Hot seat

-Leaning tower of Meesa

Rationale

• Nature enhances our creativity, and gives us a sense of who we are.
• The sounds and smells of nature has a calming effect and is good for the body and soul.
• Have you enjoyed a long walk on the beach? Or sitting back and litening to the waves and smelling the salt in the air.
• Do any of you use the beach as your go to place when you're having a bad day?

• Upon researching passive rec, the one thing that popped up was enjoying nature and all it has to offer.
• Studies from the University of Michigan "have revealed nature's ability to encourge our brains to take it easy, thus improving memory, attention span, and cognitvie development".
• The trees have a way of calming us down and research has shown that it reduces stess levels, and lowers depression.

Examples:

• Walks on the beach
• Looking for seaglass
• Swimming
• Nature walks in parks or trails
• Looking for wildlife and prints
• Canoeing
• Snow shoeing
• Sledding
• Building tree forts
• Scavenger hunts
• Having a picnic along the way
• Photography
• Fishing

Session 6

Only a Minute!

QUESTIONS?

COMMENTS?

CONCERNS?

• Now that you know about Passive Rec, we hope you feel the way we do about it and know how important it is to our youth's every day lives.
• It's available anytime, anywhere, for anyone.
• Our manual is going into production and will be available January 11th, 2016.
• Buy one and have some fun!

Thank-you!

Examples:

• Defy Gravity
• Cookie Face
• Junk in the trunk
• Scoop it up
• Stack it up
• Suck it up
• Movin' on up
• Pong tac toe

And many more!

Let's Play!

Session 7

Rationale

Vision Boards and Scrapbooking

• In this session the games are fast, fun, and competitive.
• It's challanging and takes good coordination and team work.
• Most supplies can be found in your house or for an inexpensive price.
• The youth will have a blast trying to beat the clock.

• Our ideas are based on the hit game show 'Minute to Win It'!
• We would set up a series of games and time each youth or duo on each activity.
• You could have as many or as little different games as you'd like so time can be very accommodating.

Session 2

Community Exploration

• Vision board is a creation of your dreams, goals, and your ideal future.
• It's a powerful visual tool to motivate youth strive to be the best version of themselves.
• Once you've made a vision board, hang it in a place where you can see it every day.
• You can use pictures and magazines.
• And Go Wild!

Scrapbooking

• Scrapbooking is a way to capture favorite memories, friends, and family members.
• It is a keepsake that will last a life time and can be done in your own unique way.
• You can us old pictures or magazines to make collages for scrapbooks as a representation of things in your life.

Rationale

Community Exploration

Rationale

• Vision boards are a great tool to identify the direction you want your life to head in.
• It keeps you focused on the positive things in your life.
• Will keep your attention focused on your intentions.
• Scrapbooking captures your past memories and the special people in your life.
• Both vision boards and scrapbooking are great ways to use pictures to express yourself in a non-verbal way.

• The goal here is for the youth to use the resources available to them and use their research skills to find an activity to do.
• This way the youth feel like they have some kind of control and an impact on what they get to do.
• We want the youth to know that their opinions are important.
• If they're given an opportunity to express their ideas, they will feel cared for and listened to.

• We want to challenge the youth to each research a community activity, resource, or attraction that they would like to participate in as a group.
• Give them 20 minutes to research and bring back an idea and they would each have 5-10 minutes(6-8 youth) to sell their activity to the group. Then the group would vote on which activity they want to do.
• The other activities can be saved for another time.

Session 8

Home Exploration

Island Hill Farm

Rationale

• Remember that winter storm and the long summer days we talked about earlier?
• Here's a great idea!
• It’s amazing what you can do with what’s in your junk drawer, cupboards, and closets.
• These activities are great to promote team building and growth.
• If you have shy or quiet youth these are great activities to bring them out of their shell.

Here are some examples:

• Leaning towers of meesa - Spaghetti noodles and marshmallows
• Photo Copy
• musical chairs
• If you ever
• Building a house
• Charades
• Pictionary
• Colouring
• Question List(Scategories)
• Blind Balloon Search
• Homemade Teddy Bear
• Card games

Rover Grover

Do you have a blanket in your house?

Here's a twist to Rover Rover game that everyone has played

LET'S PLAY