Celebrating life at Barchester

Crafty Corner 

The activity took place in our Memory Lane activties room, where residents sat together over a cup of tea, chatting and sharing ideas as they chose their colours and positioned each piece. We also took the craft to residents who prefer to stay in their rooms, so that everyone had the chance to join in.
Creative activities like this offer real benefits. Selecting colours and placing small pieces of tissue paper encourages creativity, keeps hands and fingers active, and gives a lovely sense of achievement. Just as importantly, it brings people together and creates moments of conversation and fun.
Seeing the pride on residents' faces as they held up their finished pumpkins and leaves was a joy.

Simple but effective crafts.

 

Our residents had a fabulous day out at the 80th Annual Art Exhibition held at Ocean on Exmouth seafront. Our activities team took the residents down in our minibus and had a browse through all of the artworks which had been produced and put up for sale by a number of different local Devon Artists. 

This week we enjoyed an outing to Southampton City Art Gallery, where we got to admire their impressive collection of artwork by some of the world’s greatest masters, including Monet, Van Dyck and Rodin. 
We look forward to returning again in the future to explore more of the collection