Activities at Crabwall Hall Care Home
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Jacqui Cameron
We all know that keeping active is important. We have created a wonderful culture within the home and we work together to give residents the best possible experience. We are here to ensure that residents enjoy an environment that is both stimulating and socially active. We ensure the team knows each residents' preferences, so that we can deliver a person-centered program of events and activities. Essential to our homely feel is the strong relationships of trust we build with residents and their families and friends. The home also has its very own minibus for our numerous outings for coffee and shopping, which residents love.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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 Crabwall Hall Care Home
Personalised Christmas Wreaths for Residents
We asked families to create wreaths for resident's doors and send them in. Residents are delighted with their personalised wreaths
Photos 1 is resident Nance Blease with the wreath her niece Kathleen has made for her. Nance 100 ihad her 100th birthday October and is a very proud Welsh lady. Niece Kathleen incorporated leeks, daffodils and the welsh flag, as well as a school photo of Nance taken in 1932.
Photo 2 is resident Muriel Mickle with her wreath made by daughters Alison and Fiona. Muriel was in the wrens and has many fascinating stories of her time on the high seas. She will tell you how much she enjoyed her service and how ‘the gin flowed like water’
Pen-pal joy for Residents
Residents at Crabwall Hall Care Home in Chester recently enjoyed exchanging letters from Queens School in Chester, who treated the residents to letters about their likes and hobbies, what they are doing at school and what siblings and pets they have. Residents at the home enjoyed reading the beautifully hand written letters and replying to the girls in their own hand and it meant such a lot as visitors are currently not able to visit the home at this time.
Children in Need
Our residents love to see the visiting grandchildren to Crabwall Hall. Whether it is their own family or that of another resident, to see and hear the children is comforting, exciting and joyful all the same. At the moment, and as has been the case for virtually the whole of this year, the home has been seriously lacking in the sound of children playing. So, when asked if they wanted to take part in Children in Need Day, some were happy to do so.
Many of the Crabwall Hall team dressed in their best Pudsey tee shirts, jumpers and head gear and were joined by residents Dot and Audrey. Dot has always got involved in the fund raising day and was keen to put her Pudsey jumper on.
Reminiscing games afternoon
All residents here at Crabwall Hall love to think about the past and their lives before coming to live with us. Many have such vivid memories of special events in their lives and we have many discussion sessions to exchange and enjoy them all.
Other popular ways of reminiscing are via music, TV programmes and games. Last month a relative of a resident kindly donated an old skittle table top game that had belonged to her mother, in the hope that our residents would like to have a play with it. As soon as they saw the game set up, their faces lit up and they were eager to have a go. Sheila and Audrey had both played the game when they were younger and were smiling and laughing throughout the whole game.
Crabwall support Movember
This year 4 residents and one member of the Crabwall Team have joined forces to grow a beard in order to create awareness to men’s health. Trevor, Alan, Dennis, George and Head of Maintenance Paul have all volunteered to be sponsored to grow a beard over the month of November.
You can see our gents at the beginning of the month and half-way through we have raised over £50.00 and delighted to be raising funds for this worthy cause.
Pumpkin carving fun
This year we decided to hold a pumpkin carving competition. Seven residents gathered in our bright garden lounge to have a go at designing scary faces to be carved out of their pumpkins.
First of all they had a go at scooping out the insides of the pumpkin and then had help to carve out the faces they had designed.
Each resident then had their photograph taken with their creations. Judging will be done by the school girls at The Queens School in Chester.
Other Halloween activities include a childrens fancy dress competition that residents and team will be judging and a Halloween photo ‘booth’ set up in reception, Halloween quiz and afternoon tea.
