Penny Auction Kit for Nursing Homes and Assisted Living, Printable PDF

A printable Penny Auction Kit for activity directors in nursing homes, assisted living and memory care. A penny auction is a friendly drawing game: every resident gets play tickets, each prize has its own cup, residents drop tickets into the cups of the prizes they hope to win, and you draw one ticket from each cup. Nobody bids against anyone, no cash is involved, and every resident can play.

WHAT IS INSIDE (14 pages: a cover, 12 working pages and a page of sources)

• Plan your penny auction: how many tickets to print for 10, 20, 30 or 40 residents, and what you need
• Run the penny auction: four steps from set-up to the winner, with a few helpful habits
• Two table signs in large print: "Penny Auction Today" with lines for the time and place, and "How to Play" in four steps
• Two ticket sheets: 25 play tickets on each sheet (Set A and Set B). One sheet is one resident's tickets. Cut along the dotted lines
• 32 lot cards, 8 to a page, numbered 1 to 32, with a line for the prize and a line for the tickets in the cup
• Ticket Bank: a list of who received tickets
• Winner Log: lot, prize, winner and room
• Why it is designed this way: the sources, on the last page

HOW THE NUMBERS WERE CHOSEN

The ticket and prize numbers follow one real program: a Rotary club runs a monthly penny auction for residents of a nursing and rehab center. Each resident gets 25 pennies, the prizes are low-cost items worth 1 to 25 cents, and 30 to 40 residents take part with 30 to 40 items. This kit copies that shape with paper tickets instead of coins. Source: Roswell Rotary, "Penny Auction Project for Seniors" (rotary6900.org/project/2411). How a penny social works: CharityAuctions.com, "Penny Social".

COLOR AND BLACK-AND-WHITE

• Black-and-white: for copiers and low ink. Every group also has a letter (A to D)
• Color: three dark, strong colors (navy, orange-red, charcoal) used only to help tell groups apart. All reading text stays black on white
• Designed according to guidance on how older eyes see color: light blues, greens and violets are easy to confuse, so none are used (Schneck et al., study of adults aged 58 to 102, reported by News-Medical.net, 2014; Victoria Department of Health, "Dementia-friendly environments: interior design")

LARGE PRINT AND PLAIN

• Signs in very large letters, with one step on each line
• Simple pages with no decoration, ready for any printer
• Files in US Letter and A4

GOOD TO KNOW

• Digital download: one zip file with a Read Me First page and four PDFs (US Letter and A4, each in color and black-and-white). Unzip before you open the PDFs. No physical item is shipped
• Paper cups and prizes are not included. The pictures in this listing show them only to explain the game
• The tickets are play tickets with no cash value. Policies on games and drawings differ by facility and state, so check yours before you start. This kit does not give legal advice
• For use in your own facility or group. Please do not resell, share or post the files
• Designed by BeingBrightStudio