Activities at Challoner House Care Home
Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Challoner House Care Home
Christmas Crafts
The residents at Challoner House have been busy with some Christmas crafts recently!
We decided to make some festive trees to decorate the home and used some cones and some wool along with some decorative items to create some lovely modern Christmas trees.
The residents really enjoyed participating in this craft and the activity was even shared with residents on a one to one session in the comfort of their own room.
Craft activities are so good to bring out our creative side as well as being good for residents dexterity.
Christmas Cake Competition
The residents at Challoner House took part in the Barchester Christmas Cake Competition.
We held a meeting to plan what we wanted our cake to look like and decided on a three tier forest village scene. We planned a few sessions to start the bake and then to decorate the cake.
The residents were really pleased with their entry and look forward to the results being announced.
Elf Day!
The residents and staff at Challoner House were really happy to participate in Elf Day in order to raise awareness for Alzheimer’s.
Staff and residents dressed up in Christmas and Elf costumes and had a really fun festive day playing games and tricks on staff.
Halloween Fun
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.
Movie Afternoon
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.
Autumnal Craft
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.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
