Activities at Moors Manor Care Home

We had All Saints St Leonard's and St Ives Church come in to the home to hold a church service especially for our residents. Religion is very important to our residents so to be able to have Rev Ruth come in and offer this means so much to them. After the service Rev Ruth had time to speak with the residents and we look forward to her coming in again very soon.

Residents enjoyed art club this week with doing something a little bit different. We did paper mache and autumn scratch art. The ladies enjoyed getting their hands a bit messy to create the paper mache, many said they hadn't done this for many years so was nice to be able to do it again. The autumn scratch designs the ladies said was very therapeutic and it was nice to see the final design. Residents enjoy being creative so we always like to try new things to do with them.

Next month it is Remembrance Day and residents spent the afternoon making poppies for us to do a very large display to mark our respect. Whilst making the poppies it then started to trigger memories for the residents of their families and parents who went to war and what it was like to live in the war as a young child. 

Residents in the home will be attending local events around Remembrance Day which they have asked to be a part of which we are here to make sure they do.

Our knitting club have enjoyed meeting in the lounge to start creating some lovely items for the ladies to give to loved ones. What was lovely was the chatting between each other all sharing their memories of knitting with their families. We finished the morning with Marjorie playing the piano and residents singing along to the songs. A really enjoyable morning had by everyone.

With the weather not being quite as sunny we decided to bring our garden club indoors. Residents started to plant up the spring bulbs tulips, daffodils, crocus and alliums. We put these containers on the balcony in memory lane and look forward to them growing into the beautiful flowers.