Activities at Challoner House Care Home

On Thursday the residents at Challoner House enjoyed a morning of Halloween fun, We had a variety of pumpkins to explore discussing the colours, textures and sizes.

We then had a game that we created called Hunt the Pumpkins which was based on the old classic strategy game Battleships.

The residents then enjoyed a warming autumnal lunch of Beef Stew followed by Sticky Toffee Pudding and Custard and an afternoon tea with some Halloween themed cupcakes.

This Sunday our residents enjoyed an old fashioned movie afternoon, The lights went off the curtains were drawn and the popcorn came out. The residents were given a choice of movies to watch and they all chose to watch Oklahoma.

The afternoon was finished off enjoying a nice warming cup of hot chocolate. The residents said how lovely it was to bring back memories of going to the movies. 

The residents at Challoner House have enjoyed some Autumnal craft sessions over the last month, our favourite was looking at the different pumpkins, Squash, leaves and flowers that we have had fall in the garden and then along to some relaxing music do some still like drawings.

At and Craft sessions are a big hit at Challoner House as it gives us a chance to bring out our creative side as well as being good for the soul and our dexterity. We hold regular crafting sessions at Challoner House which we always try to theme to the seasons and celebrations.

Every month we invite our family and friends to join us for a themed activity afternoon, this month we held a quiz consisting of 9 rounds which ranged from geography to TV and film we also had a few picture rounds. The quiz was a great success with the dining room full of many family teams, our winners of the day was our lovely Rosie and family which names themselves the Bakers and Brains, Rosie won a lovely bottle of bubbly to take away and share, we also had prizes for our runners up. Our family and friends afternoon are proving great success and will continue to enjoy our monthly meet ups as it is a great way of our families getting to know each other. 

This month the residents and staff at Challoner House were delighted to welcome back Marcus, Marcus came and sang us through the decades and dropped a few entertaining jokes in along the way, Marcus is a joy to have in the home as he truly entertains each and every resident, Marcus will be back to entertain us on October 26th at 11.00am and everyone is welcome to come along and join us.

The residents at Challoner House have had a lovely week being joined by little Oscar the cockerpoo, Oscar has been coming into Challoner every afternoon and meeting all our residents. The residents really enjoy seeing Dogs around the home, We also have a visiting P.A.T Dog Cassie that comes into see the residents every Monday morning. Pet Therapy is really important to our residents as it can help Boost well-being and improve physical, mental, and emotional functioning and reduce conditions such as depression, anxiety, and loneliness.