Activities at Crabwall Hall Care Home
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Jacqui Cameron
We all know that keeping active is important. We have created a wonderful culture within the home and we work together to give residents the best possible experience. We are here to ensure that residents enjoy an environment that is both stimulating and socially active. We ensure the team knows each residents' preferences, so that we can deliver a person-centered program of events and activities. Essential to our homely feel is the strong relationships of trust we build with residents and their families and friends. The home also has its very own minibus for our numerous outings for coffee and shopping, which residents love.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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 Crabwall Hall Care Home
Pizza making
Pizza is a very popular food and residents really enjoy them too. This month they held a pizza making activity one afternoon, when a small group designed their very own Italian themed dinner.
Each resident was given a pizza base, tomato puree to smother onto it and a selection of toppings including red, green and yellow peppers, a choice of three different salamis and grated mozzarella cheese.
Each resident chopped up their own peppers then arranged them beautifully onto the base, finishing them off with salami and a sprinkle of cheese. The pizzas were them wrapped in cling film and given to the kitchen to be cooked later on for the residents evening meal.
Residents enjoy the view
Each month Crabwall Hall host an evening activity for the homes residents. This could range from a ‘pub quiz’ or a simple chat over a glass of wine. This is follows their Relative and Residents meeting which includes wine, cheese and a biscuit trolley.
This month Residents decided they would like to take advantage of the early evening sunshine and sit on the homes beautiful sun terrace with a nice glass of wine, whilst enjoying the views across the fields, chatting and joining in with a short quiz too.
Music time at Crabwall
Residents of Crabwall Hall were delighted to receive a DVD performance from the homes popular vocalist, Britt who kindly shared a virtual performance of favourite songs which Residents enjoyed singing along too prior to lockdown. As Residents sat back in the homes large light and airy lounge, the DVD was switched on and Residents enjoyed an afternoon sing-a-long with some playing various musical instruments to add to the performance. The home was definitely filled with the sound of music!
Many of them know the majority of the words and the memories from a time gone by soon come flooding back
Arts & Crafts for balloon fiesta
Residents at Crabwall Hall decided to go ahead with celebrating the annual Bristol balloon festival, even though it has been sadly cancelled this year due to pandemic. A small group of Residents joined the arts and crafts session to create their own balloons to display in the homes lounge area for all to see.
Patricia who is a keen artist was eager to get stuck in designing her own balloon and basket, colouring them, cutting out the shapes and attaching the tissue effect and colourful foam stickers for a final result she was very pleased with. Christine is the homes retired Art Teacher and drew a pretty flower shaped design on her balloon. Whilst Janet and Sheila joined in with words of encouragement and praise for the finished display. Janet spent much of her life down in the West Country, so knows the festival well, and told us stories of happy times watching the breath-taking spectacle of all the airborne balloons.
Mind, body and soul
Residents at Crabwall Hall have a varied life enrichment programme to keep the mind, body and soul active. A popular group activity bringing everyone together each day in the morning and afternoon.
High on the agenda and lots of fun is ‘Bat-a-balloon”. An air filled balloon is hit between the residents using a sponge baton, or their hands….and even legs. The laughter and fun this session produces is priceless. Another popular game is carpet bowls which really gets the competitive juices flowing and the residents are very good at it.
Activities to stimulate the senses
Who doesn’t love the sight, scent and feel of freshly cut flowers around the home. Once a month, Residents of Crabwall Hall bring in a huge selection of fresh flowers, and residents have a lovely time trimming them down, designing their arrangements and they dot them around the home for everyone to enjoy. The session brings alive all the senses with beautiful scent given off by the flowers, the feel of them and the beautiful colours are enjoyed by all.
