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
Challoner Get Creative
The residents at Challoner House have been enjoying regular Art and Craft sessions over the last month, We have made some beautiful spring baskets and had regular still life and therapeutic colouring sessions. The resident really benefit from these sessions as it not only brings out their creativeness it aids dexterity.
As well as joining In with the craft the sessions are good to get residents together for a good reminiscence sessions.
National Scrabble Day
It was dictionaries at the ready at Challoner House Nursing home in Chandlers Ford where super-competitive residents were keen to get involved in National Scrabble Day.
Staff and residents at Challoner House Nursing home decided to host an afternoon tournament to decide their ultimate Scrabble Star.
Vicky the Activities Co-ordinator at the home commented: “Our residents all love to play Scrabble, we regularly have a game on the go and we love a good debate about what is and isn’t a word – thank goodness we always have our trusty dictionary on hand to settle things! Some of our residents have the most amazing vocabularies!
Easter Craft
The residents at Challoner House really enjoy arts and craft so this week we decided to brighten up one of our lounges with an Easter Tree, The residents used the Art of Paper folding to create colourful Easter Eggs that we used to decorate a small twig tree to display in our lounge. The craft was really good for creativeness and dexterity.
The residents all said they really enjoyed the craft as it was simple but very effective, Visitors have also commented on our tree saying how beautiful and colourful the tree is fitting in with the theme of the upcoming celebrations.
Pet Competition
The residents at Challoner House really enjoyed taking part in our community pet competition, Our local community, Relatives and staff all entered photos of their beloved pets ranging from Dogs, Cats, Horses, Rabbits and a Tortoise it was then up to our residents to become the judging panel to decide which three pets went through to the final winning first, second and third place. One of our residents Joan said ‘”This was lovely, I used to show dogs at competition’s so to be able to see such a range of different breeds was wonderful “.
We also used this session to reminisce about the pet’s we all used to keep, sharing stories about our childhood and holidays with our pets.
Mothering Sunday
Challoner House enjoyed celebrating Mothering Sunday with all our lovely ladies, We had a beautiful Flower Themed morning starting off with Flower Arranging followed by a flower themed Quiz and Word Games, Some of our ladies were delighted to be joined by their loved ones for the morning and for a beautiful Sunday Lunch. We were also lucky to have such wonderful support from our local church St Boniface who delivered some beautiful flower posies for all our residents.
Make a new friend Day
Residents and staff at Challoner House Nursing Home in Chandlers Ford had a blast celebrating Make A New Friend Day on February 8th. There were smiles all round as the home welcomed staff and residents from Shawford Springs Care home to join them for their live entertainment morning.
Make A New Friend Day is celebrated nationally to bring people together by encouraging the sharing of life stories, experiences and hobbies with the goal of creating connections through common interests.
Staff and residents from both homes spent time singing along to the performance of wonderful local singer, Sarah Hobbs. Everyone enjoyed some lovely home-made pastries and cookies baked by the talented head chef at Challoner House, washed down with lots of tea and coffee.
Pat, a resident at Challoner House, commented: “We’ve had such a lovely morning. It has been wonderful to meet new people and have a lovely sing along.
