Activities at Lawton Manor Care Home

Next week we'll be honouring Remembrance Day with our residents, team, and local community. In the meantime, we'd love to raise as much money as possible for the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal. As we all do every year, we were poppies to remember those who fought in battle, whilst simultaneously raising money for the Poppy Appeal and the wonderful work that they do supporting veterans.

One of our wonderful residents, Ivor, set up our Poppy Appeal station in our reception with some of his memorabilia from his time serving in the war. If you don't yet have a poppy and are thinking of getting one, please pop along and get yours and take a look through some of Ivor's memories.

Here at Lawton Manor, we got into the spooky Halloween spirit of things by creating painted, decorated and carved pumpkins.

We then hosted a fun-filled party in the afternoon with delicious Halloween inspired treats, mocktails and themed music from our wonderful entertainment!

Some of our residents preferred to dress up for the occasion, others got involved in themed quizzes and games, and enjoyed watching Halloween films.

We all had a spooktacular time!

Ahead of all of our Halloween celebrations coming up, we decided to get into the spirit early with some biscuit decorating!

A simple activity but still so enjoyable, what better than to ice some biscuits with spooky faces for everyone to enjoy?! Some of our lovely ladies got together in our Squirrel's Den Cafe and put their best artistic skills to the test by creating these yummy gingerbread pumpkins. They all said how much they loved it as it reminded them of how they used to mark these occasions years ago. Some even use to bake their own biscuits to decorate!

We think they look great! Let us know what you'd ice onto your biscuits.

There's nothing quite like a game of darts! So we've made it a little bit easier for our residents who like to sit down and we've made 'floor darts' a regular at our home - which goes down a treat every single time!

The concentration on everybody's faces says it all! Our competitive nature comes out every time, and we like to see who can score the most points. We all know that points mean prizes so there's always a winner or two!

We had the cutest little visitor at Lawton Manor this week! Our Regional Trainer Val brought her newest family member Jonesy to visit the residents. (Even some of the staff got a cuddle!) After all of his adventures, he eventually needed a nap and ended up falling asleep on Joan's lap.

Jonesy is a Miniature Dachshund and is only a couple of months old. Val brought him home and not long after she decided to bring him in to visit the residents as soon as possible as she knew how excited they'd be. His sister Piper will be home this weekend and I'm sure won't be far behind Jonesy in coming to visit us!

We celebrated Battle of Britain Day on 15th September for the 83rd Anniversary, which is particularly significant to one of our residents, Ivor.

Residents and staff all got involved with the spirit of the themed day. Ivor took the opportunity to share his experiences with residents and staff as he was an Officer and a Squadron Leader back in the day, who was trained to fly any aeroplane including fighter planes! Ivor dressed in his officer uniform to show us all.

Our team were amazed by the stories and how smart Ivor looked in his uniform. We're amazed he still has it and it is still in such wonderful condition 83 years later! Ivor is even a member of the Caterpillar Club, which is an association of people who have successfully used a parachute to bail out of a disabled aircraft.

Thank you Ivor for such a wonderful afternoon of storytelling and reminiscing!