Activities at Lochduhar Care Home

Today is World Religion Day. To mark this day we used the activity book from the Oomph activity resource to learn all about religions from around the world.  The residents reminisced about going to Sunday School when they were children and one resident advised that her mother had been a Sunday School teacher.  After reading about the other religions, residents completed a religion themed word search and coloured in the themed pictures.

When local author, Rachel reached out to the home to see if our residents would like to do some illustrations for her book on the Scottish coastline, we were only too happy to oblige. The Lighthouse is at Southerness and it assists a safe passage through the Solway Firth. The Caerverlock Castle is situated on the Southern coast of Scotland. During the session residents shared their memories of favourite holidays spent in Scotland.

Merry Christmas to all our residents families, friends and all our followers, we hope that Santa brought everyone some lovely gifts!  Resident's woke to find that they were included on Santa's nice list and each had a gift waiting for them! They have spent the rest of the morning opening gifts from family and friends.

Residents at Lochduhar received lots of christmas cards following our challenge. The latest cards were received from 2 secondary schools.  Thank you to pupils at Dumbarton Academy for sending our residents Christmas wishes. Their card was designed by S3 pupil Kali Robertson @Dumbarton_Acad. We also received hand drawn cards from Dumfries High School S1 pupils. Thank you all the pupils who took time to send these. It's lovely to know that the older generation are in the thoughts of the younger generation especially at this time of year!

Last week we marked National Robin Day. The day helps to raise awareness for these little birds and how we can help them through the cold winter months that they are associated with.  The idea is that everyone will do something small to help the birds through the winter whether it be creating a wildlife friendly space in your garden, filling up a bird feeder or simply throwing out some crumbs for food! Sadly we didn’t see any real robins in the garden when we went to look so we had to make do with our ornamental one. #nationalrobinday

We have kindly been donated some twiddle muffs from the Butterfly Legacy Project. For those of you who don’t know what a twiddle muff is, it’s a sensory activity for residents with dementia. It is well known that often people with dementia suffer from “restless hands” and need an activity to keep them busy and active.

The twiddle muffs offer different textures with the main body being knitted and then adorned with ribbons, beads, zips and buttons.  Thank you to Jackie and the team for their donation! #butterflylegacyproject