Activities at Thistle Hill Care Home

Residents and staff at Thistle Hill care home honoured those who lost their lives during the First and Second World War by hosting moving memorial services to help our residents reminisce and remember their loved ones.

The event was also marked by residents taking part in themed arts and crafts that helped them to discuss their own memories of war time Britain

The residents rounded off remembrance Sunday with a great British tea party whilst listening to war time songs and poems playing on our big screen.

Residents and the team enjoyed a fabulous day of Halloween fun and games at the Thistle Hill care home in Knaresborough.

The home cares for residents over a variety of ages but the Halloween antics can be fun for all. Activities co-ordinator Mark said "the residents threw themselves into the activities even though celebrating Halloween has only been more popular in recent years.

They played Halloween themed games and had a good dance to the Halloween inspired music with classics being played such as “the monster mash” and the classic theme song from “ghostbusters”

The fun and laughter has continued at the Thistle Hill care home, in Knaresborough as residents recently enjoyed gardening, news, quizzes, virtual pet shows, baking, arts and crafts and making pen pal’s

Residents at Thistle Hill have enjoyed our engaging activities programmes consisting virtual days at the beach, live exercise sessions – stretch and movement class, armchair yoga, religious services, virtual trip to Chester zoo arranged by the homes’ activities team for residents within the home and local community groups.

The activities coordinator Mark Shelton supports the personal interests of residents so they can continue with their individual hobbies in an effort to celebrate life as often as we can. All group and individual activities offer a choice of mental, physical and spiritual activities of people we care for.

Residents at the Thistle Hill care home in Knaresborough celebrated the start of “space week” with a visual journey through the stars. Using our sensory lights, big screen projector and themed music. Our residents were treated to a visual and relaxing display of discovery.

After this our residents enjoyed an afternoon of space themed trivia and documentaries about the wonders of space travel.

Residents of Thistle Hill have really enjoyed taking part in Barchester’s Harvest competition with a host of daily activities and using a salt dough recipe residents prepared and stirred in the salt dough mixture.

They helped to mould and shape the harvest sheaf and themed vegetable’s plus animals (mice and cats) before painting them in colours of their choosing.

Residents also managed to get outside in turn and pick up apples, leaves, conkers and pine combs for the display table to create their final display.

On Friday 25th September residents and staff at the thistle hill care home in Knaresborough came together for coffee and cake at to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support by taking part in the charity’s annual “World’s Biggest Coffee Morning”.

Although this year was different not being able to open our doors to the community, the residents and staff kept on smiling and had a fun filled morning of cake, music and laughter plenty all whilst raising money for charity

With the help of our fabulous and talented team in the kitchen, lead by Chef Paul who as ever produced some excellent cakes, everyone enjoyed the yummy sweet treats!