Melbourne Cup Manual of Resources and Activity Ideas
$44.00
A printable Melbourne Cup activity manual for aged care settings, covering fact sheets, quizzes, recipes, bingo, a card game, and racing game templates — all ready to print, cut out, and laminate for group or one-to-one sessions.
This printable Melbourne Cup activity manual brings together a broad range of session-ready resources for activity coordinators working in aged care. It covers fact sheets, quizzes, recipes, games, and more — all organised in a plastic-pocket manual that allows individual pages to be removed as needed.
What’s included
The manual contains ready-to-use printed materials across several activity types. Additional pockets can be added by removing the spine if the manual needs to expand over time.
- Fact sheets on the Melbourne Cup, past winners, horses, racing history, and Phar Lap — useful for reminiscing and discussion
- Quizzes and brainteasers suited to group or one-to-one sessions
- Recipes and recreational game ideas for a Melbourne Cup function
- Racehorse templates for a tabletop racing game
- “Silks” full-colour card game, included and also sold separately
- 20-sheet bingo game, ready for cutting out and laminating
For those who pa digital format, the same content is available on CD as PDFs that can be opened and printed from a computer. If you are looking for activity book ideas for adults in a Melbourne Cup theme, this manual covers multiple session formats in a single resource.
- Reminiscence discussion: Use the fact sheets on Phar Lap, past winners, and Australian racing history as conversation starters in small groups or one-to-one sessions.
- Quiz session: Run the included quizzes as a group activity, reading questions aloud and encouraging residents to call out or write down answers.
- Tabletop racing game: Set up the racehorse templates on a table and use dice or a spinner to move horses along a track — works well as a Melbourne Cup day event activity.
- Bingo game: Cut out and laminate the 20-sheet bingo game for repeated use across multiple sessions throughout the Melbourne Cup season.
- Silks card game: Use the included full-colour Silks card game as a standalone group activity before or after the main Cup day event.
- Format: Printed manual with plastic pockets; also available on CD as printable PDFs
- Construction: Plastic-pocket binder with removable spine to allow additional pockets to be inserted
- Included items: Fact sheets, quizzes, brainteasers, recipes, recreational game ideas, racehorse templates, Silks full-colour card game, and a 20-sheet bingo game
- Print/laminate requirement: Bingo sheets and card game require cutting out; laminating recommended for repeated use
- CD format: All manual content stored as PDFs, printable from a computer
- Note: Silks card game is also sold separately