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
Candle Factory Workshops
Our residents love to get out and about as much as possible. At the tail end of last year, three of our residents braved the cooler November weather and boarded the mini bus and we headed into the Cheshire countryside to Burwardsley to the Candle Factory Workshops.
The workshops were nice and quiet and our residents started off by painting a glass stand for their candle twist to sit in. There was a good selection of coloured paints and glitters and they all let their creative juices flow and made some lovely bright creations.
They then had a go at making their own candles. The starter wicks were carefully dipped into the melted wax a few times before the last 2 coats of their chosen colours were added. The two candles were then twisted together for the final effect. This was an activity none of our residents had ever tried before and they thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
Whilst the candles were setting, we all enjoyed a tasty coffee and cake with views from the spacious café of the Cheshire plains and could even see Beeston Castle in the distance.
Zoo2U
Many of our residents have had pets throughout their lives, so it’s always a real treat when visitors bring in their dogs or Alfie the PAT dog arrives on his fortnightly visit.
Four times a year we also have more exotic and unusual animals visiting with the Zoo2U team. Over the last few visits our residents have come ‘up close and personal’ to meerkats, centipedes, owls, chipmunks, and even a snake.
On their last visit, they brought along with them a very noisy and vocal parrot, an even noisier kookaburra, both of which had our residents in fits of laughter. There was also a fluffy skunk called Willow and a tiny Madagascan tenrec, which looks like a little white hedgehog.
The residents could touch the animals if they wanted to, and the team are always very informative with regards to the animals' origins, habitats, diets and their individual personalities.
Guest Pianist
Our residents love to have visiting performers and, in particular, anything to do with music. We have many singers visiting, usually at least once a month. We always have a good turnout of a full lounge and our residents never fail to bring their beautiful singing voices with them.
We recently arranged for a pianist to come and perform for an hour. We have a grand piano in our lounge, which was finally tuned over Christmas, so our residents were extra excited to hear it being played at last.
Peter is retired and has played piano and keyboard for many years. He was very interactive with our residents—as are all of our guest performers—jogging their memories with tunes, song titles and lyrics. Peter also brought along with him his own keyboard, which our residents were mesmerized by when they heard drum beats and percussion instruments coming from the small machine. Some of them commented that it was like having a whole orchestra in the lounge. Peter will be coming back soon, due to the brilliant positive response he received.
Upcoming events
April
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