Activities at Caldy Manor Care Home

This year we went all out for Chinese New Year and the residents enjoyed a week packed with a range of different activities in preparation of and to celebrate Chinese New Year. We started with making some decorations to put around the home. We drew around our hands and decorated them before sticking them all together to make a dragon. The residents also made lanterns which we were able to stick up around the home which they loved. We then had a go at some Chinese writing which the residents did not only enjoyed but were very good at. We had a go writing our names, using the Chinese alphabet to help us and we also wrote common phrases that were used for Chinese New Year. We finished the week enjoying some lovely Chinese food prepared by our chef, having fortune cookies and doing a quiz. We had such a wonderful week!

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Caldy Manor care home in Caldy got out their binoculars and bird books to support this year’s Big Garden Birdwatch initiative.

The RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch is an annual event to try to understand what is happening to our native birds. The idea is to log all the birds you see in your garden, from your window or in your local park in a one hour period any time between January 26th and 28th.  In 2023 over half a million people took part and between them they counted 9 million birds.  Sadly we have lost over 38 million birds from the UK skies in the last 60 years so it is vital we do all we can to protect our birdlife.

Caldy Manor care home in Caldy prepared a traditional Burns Night Supper to the tune of bagpipes and the fun continued well into the night.

Staff and residents at the home were involved in a number of activities for example a Scottish quiz, listening to some traditional Scottish music in addition to some Robert Burns poems and watching a documentary on Scottish history to celebrate Burns night together. 

General Manager, Hannah, at Caldy Manor, thought it was a perfect occasion to celebrate an evening steeped in age-old tradition as well as getting in a spot of some Scotch whisky tasting and reading a selection of Burns’ poems.

To celebrate international flower day the residents had a go at some flower arranging. We started off by using glue to stick tissue paper onto a template of a flower and the residents enjoyed using loads of different colours and scrunching the tissue paper. Then we made flower bouquets and placed them into jars and displayed them on the tables in the dining room so the residents to enjoy looking at their creations.

The residents tested their artistic skills by painting on canvases using acrylic paints. We had an example photo which the residents used as a template but all ended up with very different and unique designs using their preferred colours and brush stroke techniques. We then stuck on cut out of birds and all in all the residents were very proud of their work. We then displayed their  pieces in the home for everyone to see.

We enjoyed a lovely fulfilled afternoon celebrating Elivs’ 89th birthday. The residents thoroughly enjoyed dressing up, singing and dancing to all their favourite Elvis songs. This was followed by a quiz all about Elvis and the residents were filled with joy and had smiles on their faces all day!