Activities at Oak Grange Care Home

One of our favourite past times here at Oak Grange is flower arranging. We are blessed with some beautiful roses in our own garden and so decided to incorporate them into our activity. Snipping a few yellow roses and pink roses to go into our floral arrangements. The finished arrangements were then placed around the home filling it with colour and perfume. We all agreed they looked fabulous and with care lasted over a week. A regular activity here at Oak Grange that is enjoyed by many of the residents.

Well we were just as excited as the rest of the country at getting to the football final against Spain and we really got into the spirit of the game. Decorated our home with all the flags, bunting and hats we could get our hands on and got ready to cheer our boys on. Drinks and snacks at the ready we sat down with fingers crossed that this time we would really bring it home. Sadly it wasn’t to be but we enjoyed the game and one of our residents Ray said “ it was a good match and one of these days we might win, but not today “. Oh well maybe next time boys.

We love to get arty here at Oak Grange and can often be found being artistic with acrylics and watercolours. We recently decided to reproduce the Sunflowers by Van Gogh and wow we have some budding artists. June who used to paint in her younger days was over the moon with her finished piece and said “ I didn’t realise I could still paint so well, I am really pleased with myself”.  Everyone who participated  were surprised by how well the pictures came out and a lovely morning was had by all. We rewarded ourselves with coffee and cake after all our hard work of course. What will our next creative painting morning bring ? who knows, we will just have to wait and see.

Here at oak grange we have been out in the garden at last, enjoying the sunshine. We have a beautiful garden that is looked after by Tom and Sid and is now in bloom with some lovely fragrant flowers and bushes. Our lovely summer house allows some shade if needed and it’s just a perfect place  for residents to enjoy some peaceful moments or to socialise over a cool drink. Spending time in the garden has profound therapeutic benefits and has been proven to reduce stress, anxiety and depression. Let’s hope the sun continues to shine for a while yet so we can spend more quality time in our gardens here at Oak Grange.

Our community project with St Oswalds school was awesome, after much deliberation and weather watching we finally got together to paint our garden gazebo. The children along with the Head and two volunteers came with paintbrushes at the ready. The residents decided they wanted some colour and fun in the tired looking gazebo and that’s exactly what they got. Pink, blue and cream painted sides and the inside full of sunflowers. Our project came together with a great amount of work from the children who worked very hard and did a brilliant job, they only stopped for one little break for drinks and biscuits for the whole afternoon. So a massive thank you to all the children and volunteers, and to the Head who got this community project off the ground. Our gazebo is now a lovely place to sit and watch the birds in the garden and to have a nice cup of tea.

Our gentlemen having been getting together to watch the Football, so we thought it would be a good idea to watch their favourite game on the big screen along with a few beers and a buffet. Sometimes the boys just need to be boys and do their boy stuff, like shouting at the telly and telling off the ref!!!! Here at Oak Grange we like to cater to everyone’s hobbies and interests and when the gentlemen said they wanted to watch England play then that’s exactly what they did, we hope you enjoyed the match and look forward to the next one.