Activities at Challoner House Care Home
Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Challoner House Care Home
Joint Birthday Celebrations
At Challoner House we were delighted to be holding a joint 90th Birthday Party for two of our lovely ladies Mavis and Pamela. Mavis and Pamela were joined by Family, Residents and Staff for an afternoon tea party.
Challoner House always make sure our residents enjoy their special day by decorating their rooms with Banners and Balloons, The Chef makes a delicious homemade cake and we always have a party.
100th Birthday Celebration
Challoner House was delighted to be able to celebrate the centenary birthday with our lovely resident Margaret. Margaret started her 100th Birthday with a champagne tea party with all her fellow residents and staff, Margaret was delighted to show off her special card from Our King and Queen Charles and Camilla. In the afternoon Margaret was joined by all her family and friends for a private party held in our dining room and catered for by our head chef Weronika.
Margaret has said ‘ Thank you to all the wonderful staff at Challoner House for making my day so very special’
St George's Day Celebrations
The residents , relatives and staff at Challoner House had a lovely day of celebrating our patron saint of England St George. The home was decorated in the St Georges Cross flags and we had a wonderful sing along with the talented Sarah Hobbs, Sarah took us back through the decades singing good old British classics. We were also able to enjoy so lovely homemade cakes and nibbles provided by our head chef Weronika.
Everyone had a lovely day and said they can’t wait till the next party.
Challoner Get Creative
The residents at Challoner House have been enjoying regular Art and Craft sessions over the last month, We have made some beautiful spring baskets and had regular still life and therapeutic colouring sessions. The resident really benefit from these sessions as it not only brings out their creativeness it aids dexterity.
As well as joining In with the craft the sessions are good to get residents together for a good reminiscence sessions.
National Scrabble Day
It was dictionaries at the ready at Challoner House Nursing home in Chandlers Ford where super-competitive residents were keen to get involved in National Scrabble Day.
Staff and residents at Challoner House Nursing home decided to host an afternoon tournament to decide their ultimate Scrabble Star.
Vicky the Activities Co-ordinator at the home commented: “Our residents all love to play Scrabble, we regularly have a game on the go and we love a good debate about what is and isn’t a word – thank goodness we always have our trusty dictionary on hand to settle things! Some of our residents have the most amazing vocabularies!
Easter Craft
The residents at Challoner House really enjoy arts and craft so this week we decided to brighten up one of our lounges with an Easter Tree, The residents used the Art of Paper folding to create colourful Easter Eggs that we used to decorate a small twig tree to display in our lounge. The craft was really good for creativeness and dexterity.
The residents all said they really enjoyed the craft as it was simple but very effective, Visitors have also commented on our tree saying how beautiful and colourful the tree is fitting in with the theme of the upcoming celebrations.
