Activities at The Cedars Bourne Care Home

Residents have recently been using their creative flare to colour and make some flowers to display and brighten everyone’s spirits in time for Christmas.

It’s the perfect opportunity to get together indoors and relax when the weather hasn’t been so bright. Not only are our residents keeping very sociable, but they are also learning some new skills.

Some ladies have been surprised in finding out that doing art doesn’t always need to be perfect it’s about expressing yourself on a blank canvas.

Residents were delighted to receive all the creative picture of fireworks displays from Bourne Abbey School children for our home's competition.

They spent the afternoon going through all the pictures, deciding who should be the winner for the firework competition.

We then put all the pictures up in our garden lounge so everyone can admire the colourful art work.

Residents spent the day reading the most famous poems and our favourites. Ellen was able to enjoy sharing her poetry club experiences with us. 

Residents celebrated World Food Day by having a sensory afternoon of tasting different foods. We all tried some Mexican, Indian, Chinese and Italian foods.

It was a great day, which sparked lots of discussion about food!

Residents enjoyed getting creative, sculpting with colourful clay to make figures for Halloween. Once the residents got used to the feel of the clay, they started to use their artist minds to mould and shape some Halloween figures like a pumpkin, cat and a mouse.

Residents have been judging photos of dogs that have been submitted by family or staff. They individually chose their favourite top 3 pictures to determine the winners.

Each dog that took part received a toy and the top prize of a dog grooming voucher goes to the dog with the most votes. The winner of the competition was Coco.