Activities at Rose Lodge Care Home

Residents always look forward to seeing Debbie from Gratitude 43 with her wonderful arts and crafts sessions. This month the lovely residents made beautiful bird sun catchers to hang in their bedroom windows. The residents had lots of fun creating these using different vibrant colours and chatting about the various birds we see in the gardens. Afterwards we continued chatting with Debbie for lunch which was ever so much fun.

Resident Alice said, "I thoroughly enjoy art and craft sessions and catching up with all the ladies who join". Resident Wendy added, "It's is just so nice, all of us being round the table together exchanging conversation with each other and making beautiful items for the home".

These craft activities with Gratitude 43 help residents to boost their mood, learn new skills, gain confidence and provide us all with a sense of achievement.

Rose Lodge opened its doors to the community for a delightful coffee morning. Residents and staff were also joined by a lovely lady from St Peter and St Paul Parish Church of Wisbech who loved chatting away with residents about what they'd been up to and their life history.

Resident Barbara said, "We had such a lovely time chatting about the running and upkeep of the church. They do their very best fixing things and fundraising to help pay towards the costs. I'm looking forward to supporting the church further".

After this delightful conversation about the church, residents and staff came together to start brainstorming about how they can help support at Rose Lodge. We are all looking forward to what they'll come up with to further support the local community.

Rose Lodge residents welcomed back Jake from JG Fitness for an energising fitness class this week. Jake always brings something new to our exercise sessions, keeping us engaged and healthy. During this session we had a fantastic time with our resistance bands, keeping up with the beat of the music and having fun throughout.

These fantastic classes are great for physical well-being and cognitive skills. After our amazing exercise we all had a well deserved cup of tea.

Today, Activities Lead Jane and Volunteer Cheryl bought the Grand Nationals to Rose Lodge. Residents got prepared with a fabulous lunch wearing their chosen Ladies Hats before the big race in the afternoon.

Everyone gathered in the lounge and each resident had a booklet to choose their special horse. The lounge was a buzz with excitement as the horses sprinted towards the finish line on the TV. During the nail biting events everyone enjoyed scrumptious refreshments and chocolates while reminiscing.

Resident Vera shared with us all that she always used to place a bet on the Grand Nationals and loved reliving this experience with everyone.

To mark World Cocktail Day, residents were joined by a local, family-owned and run distillery, Fenspirits. Residents and staff were fascinated by Owner Anthony's talk and enjoyed learning about their history and of course, trying an array of interesting and delicious spirits and cocktails. Tesco's Community Champion Julie, joined us and helped us give the delicious drinks names.

Resident Vera reminisced about running a pub and shared fond memories of making cocktails for the ladies.

Residents had a delightful time painting with Aqua Paints this week. These wonderful templates are designed to create conversation and support creativity and cognitive skills. The Aqua paints have a simple clear black outline of the image to help guide the painter, which makes them perfect with those living with dementia.

The results are absolutely beautiful and residents loved seeing the white pages come to life with water. Once these vibrant images were displayed, we loved reminiscing and sharing stories about them.

Ruby, a resident said, "I remembered these prams like it was yesterday".