Leisure Activities
A type of relaxation leisure activity that involves breathing exercises, meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures/movements.
What is yoga?
A type of leisure activity that may help a person cope with anxiety.
What is ____________? (decided by Rec Therapist).
a place where stocks of food are supplied free of charge to people in need.
What is a food bank?
An activity that can be done anywhere, but most often at a park or in your neighborhood that improves physical health and can help with anxiety.
What is walking?
A place you can visit to see historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interests and exhibits.
What is a museum?
Name this cognitive leisure activity, which includes a grid of squares and blanks into which words cross vertically and horizontally and are filled in according to clues.
What is a crossword puzzle?
List two leisure activities that may help an individual cope with stress.
What is going for a walk, meditation, yoga, drawing, colouring etc.
a building containing collections of books and sometimes films or music for people to read and borrow.
What is the library?
Name two benefits of physical activities for your physical health.
What is regulate your heart rate, cardiovascular health, strength etc?
The name of a place where you can go roll, strike, and get a turkey.
What is a bowling alley?
This category of leisure involves exercising your body/movement. Some examples are aerobics and football.
What are physical activities?
This type of activity involves writing down thoughts, feelings, ideas.
What is Journaling?
a outdoor space that often has benches, tables and lots of green space to relax, socialize or people watch.
What is a park?
A benefit of cognitive games like sudoku, crossworkds, and cardgames.
What is challenging your mind, enhancing your problem solving skills, improving your memory?
A place where you can go to relieve stress, improve physical health, and increase self-esteem.
What is the gym?
Praying, meditation, religious services are all examples of this type of activity.
What are spiritual activities?
A creative way to self-express, create and cope with emotions using pencils/crayons/markers?
What is drawing/colouring?
This transportation system allows people to travel quickly from one end of the city to the other at a low cost.
What is the Bus (system)?
After an individual finishes an arts & crafts project, bakes cookies or builds a table, a person may experience this feeling.
What is a sense of accomplishment?
A place people visit and spend time overnight in the outdoors and do activities like hiking and swimming?
What is a provincial or national park?
These 5 categories are considered areas or domains of wellness/health and leisure activities.
What is social, emotional/mental, intellectual, physical and spiritual areas/domains.
List three categories of leisure
What is physical, social, spiritual, emotional, cognitive?
This charitable organization has several locations throughout the City of Calgary and provides recreation and leisure programs including rock climbing, swimming, summer camps and more!
What is the YMCA?
This emotion can be defined as experiencing frequent positive or pleasant emotions such as joy or pride.
What is happiness?
A large outdoor event with rides, shows, refreshments, games of chance/skill, and other forms of entertainment.
What is an carnival, fair or amusement park?