Activities at Ross Court Care Home

Ross Court had a wonderful local artistic group visit us from a shop called Made In Ross. 

Chris showed the residents what she knits, from very large knitting needles to very small, to create her art work of scarfs, rugs and jewellery. Frances gave us a demonstration of how she smashes up bottles to create her sculptures and relief pictures. Steve wowed us with his amazing Raku fired pots and his wife Sarah who is a weaver showed us her scarfs and bath mats that she had created from weaving. Residents had questions for each artist, there was lots of interest in the group activity.      

A few photos of some of the word games we play, along with nurf gun shooting game.  Residents also love balloon tennis and balloon quiz. In our balloon quiz game, as I tap the balloon around the room, I shout  "STOP !" the resident who is holding or tapping the balloon last, answers one of my quiz questions. Some are tricky, some are fun, and some are just daft and don’t make sense at all, but they all love it.

The little Rainbows played large KerPlunk with Bill one of our residents, he lost, as all the balls fell in the basket on his turn, the Rainbows squealed with excitement when the balls dropped. Bill brought out a new game of hoopla that his family had given him that day to show the Rainbows. He set it up, showed them how to play, and again they won! Bill loved this, he was happy to lose the games. After refreshments the rainbows went around the residents showing proudly their badges that they had earned. I told one little girl called Ruby that Rosemarie has problems seeing and she sat with Rosemarie describing each badge, what picture was on it what colours and size she even asked Rosemarie to touch the badges. All this kindness and thought with no prompting, it was such a sweet, lovey moment. To end the evening the Rainbows took part in wake and shake with the residents, they all left tired and arms full of Easter Eggs from Ross Court.

We had an Easter egg hunt with the residents, and an Easter egg race with a difference. The residents had to pass the boiled egg (that was painted by themselves) from spoon to spoon. They were in two teams, similar to musical chairs. The eggs with the least cracks from dropping them, were the winners. Residents got into the arts and crafts by painting and decorating the boiled egg. Lots of fun and giggles.

We also had the Barchester Bunny giving out Easter eggs to all the residents, they enjoyed the visit, we also had large Easter buttons for those residents with dairy intolerance.

We had two volunteers Sue and Nicola from New Start Cat Rescue come in with two beautiful cats. The white one is Eric and the black one is Rupert. Both the cats were so well behaved, they were given dreamies as a treats.

The white cat who was the largest gulped them down to the amusement of the residents. Rupert was very soft and kind he nestled in to the residents lap, whereas Eric, well he wanted to explore.

The Residents loved them and asked lots of questions about how they were found. Eric was rescued from Romania, the volunteers didn’t know much of their back ground, but it was great news to hear that they have both found their forever home.

We had Heineken Hereford come to visit us here at Ross Court. We enjoyed a talk by Melanie Riches about how they made their flavoured cider, with natural flavourings and local apples. The residents found this all very interesting. There was question and answer time at the end. Mel was on the ball about her knowledge of the cider. Residents were also allowed to sample lots of different flavours, their favourite was the strawberry and apple.

Lots of fun