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
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.
Resident celebrates milestone birthday
During the month of October resident, Nance Blease, celebrated her 100th Birthday. Sadly her family could not visit due to Welsh Corona Virus restrictions, but we still held a great party for her and the other residents here at Crabwall Hall. Nance’s day started with lots of cards, flowers and other gifts arriving along with her telegram from the Queen.
Nance later joined other residents in the decorated dining room for her choice of a tea of chip shop delivered battered fish, chips and gravy. The lounge area that had also been decorated was then the venue for drinks, birthday cake, and music. The Activity team made a play list of Nance’s favourite welsh singers including Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, Shakin’ Stevens and also the welsh national anthem. Nance enjoyed her day so much, she asked if she could do it all again the following day!
Freaky Fun and Ghoulish Games at Crabwall Hall
Normally for this time of year we have visiting children dressed in their Halloween finest. The residents at Crabwall Hall love to see them dressed up and give out sweets supplied by our activity team. This year, of course, is very different. As we could not have any visitors into the home we set up a Halloween ‘photo booth’ in our reception area and invited our residents to take part.
As you can see from the photo’s some had great fun dressing up in the head wear available…. Manager Kirsty Jones joined in too.
Also for Halloween we have held a pumpkin carving competition and children’s Halloween fancy dress competition. We also had a Halloween afternoon tea for residents with spooky treats and stories.
Excitement as winners announced!
Residents of Crabwall Hall were delighted to receive so many entries to their recent virtual cat and dog show and as the closing day arrived, Residents were excited to look through the many photographs to be able to selected their winners. Some residents simply were happy to join in by searching through the display on the homes lounge wall for their winner, whilst some chose from the photographs taken to their bedrooms so everyone was involved.
Residents, Alan Davies and Pat Bradley choose their winners and 1st place went to Rosie a poodle cross, 2nd place went to Maya a beautiful husky puppy and 3rd place went to Poppy a labrador puppy owned by one of Barchester's Care Homes in Scotland. The home would like to thank everyone who sent in their entries as it brought a smile to the residents faces and created many conversations about their own much loved pets they have owned.
