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
Musical Evening
We usually have a variety of visiting performers to Crabwall Hall, and one of the most popular is a lady called Britt, who performs a wide range of songs from all over the world. Sadly, due to the coronavirus, no performers have been able to gain access to the home. Britt knows how much our residents love her performances, so she very kindly made a video of herself singing all of their favourite tunes.
We gathered our residents into the TV lounge, got the musical instruments, props and song sheets out and had a wonderful hour, singing and playing along, with Britt on the TV. Music and singing is such a great uplifting activity, one that can transport you to a single moment in time and conjure up all sorts of memories.
One-to-One Activities
Even though many of our residents have had to endure hardship throughout their lives (many of them have lived through at least one world war) the coronavirus crisis is new to them too.
Our residents are very resilient, but great care was taken to observe their mental and physical well being during this even more difficult time. On hearing of the lockdown, we immediately sent around a flyer listing all of the one-to-one activities our team could offer them in their rooms. This list included memory games, draughts, dominoes, board games, cards, hand massages and nail painting, music and movement, relaxation sessions, drawing and sketching, or just a lovely chat over a cup of tea.
Every resident enjoyed these sessions at least once a day. We have also been taking a drinks trolley around the rooms; our residents love their lunch time sherry or glass of wine!
Active in the Sunshine
Our residents here at Crabwall Hall love to sit on the sun terrace when the weather is nice. As we have had some beautiful early spring sunshine, they all donned their hats and headed outside.
Although many like to just sit and chat and soak up the rays, some also like outside activities too. On this particular afternoon, we got out the games trolley and many joined in with hoopla, skittles and even giant dominoes.
Easter Cake Competition
Our residents love nothing more than afternoon tea and cake. Our chef made a fresh batch of plain fairy cakes and a small group of residents all sat around a table in our lounge to decorate them. They had icing sugar, marshmallow bunnies and chicks, chocolate fingers, mini eggs and sprinkles.
One lady could not wait, and ate hers as she was going, but was overjoyed to get another to decorate for the competition photos!
After the cakes were finished and they all proudly had their photos taken with their creations, they tucked into their own cakes with a nice hot cup of tea.
Flower Arranging
Our residents here at Crabwall Hall, like many of us, love the scent and presence of fresh flowers around the home.
Recently, we had a number of bouquets donated from family members, and we all had fun creating our own floral displays.
Flower arranging combines many skills and senses. The imagination needed for a beautiful display requires an active mind; the senses come into play with the pretty and pleasant aromas, as well as the sight of beautiful colours, shapes and textures of the foliage. The arrangements were then spread around the home for everyone to enjoy.
Who Killed Professor Crabbie?
For something completely different, we recently held a murder mystery event here at Crabwall Hall for our residents to participate in.
We started off by asking the residents to identify the physical clues they could see from the scenario we had set out in our garden lounge.
We then read out profiles and encounters of 6 possible suspects, and the residents had to work out from the clues who the perpetrator was…They all managed to figure out the clues and our resident, Cliff, read out the correct answer.
We then had a demonstration and a question and answers session with 2 police officers from Cheshire Police. All of our residents, some relatives and guests from the nearby private houses had a lovely afternoon.
