Activities at The Cedars Bourne Care Home

We continue to celebrate a varied life enrichment programme and across our services we linked up with other Barchester care homes and hospitals up and down the country for some interactive Beat the Clock games. 

Our residents truly enjoyed solving word puzzles, conundrums and mathematical problems as part of Barchester’s very own game show series.

Everyone who joined had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.

Celebrations have been in full swing at our home as one of its residents reached 102 years in style.

Ronald Priest celebrated his birthday surrounded by family, friends, residents and staff. Ron enjoyed a special birthday lunch with his daughter and friends, freshly prepared by Chef Richard, with a glass of bubbly to toast the day.  Ron and his family and friends then joined other residents for a quiz afternoon finished with a fabulous birthday cake and lots of birthday wishes.

We had a lot of fun exploring water colour painting this month with Activity Assistant Lisa.

It's a hard medium to master but with some great books explaining how to slowly build up a picture, we all created some fantastic paintings. Barbara was so thrilled and couldn't believe what she was able to accomplish. Marjorie totally surprised herself saying, ‘I'm no artist but that was really enjoyable’. With such positive feedback, this activity will now be a regular on our schedule.

This month we had a wonderful visit from Karen, a local Florist, who gave us a tutorial to create a sweet Easter flower arrangement.  We used little cream buckets, beautiful flowers and Agra wool; (an environmentally friendly alternative to oasis blocks).

The colours of the blooms in blues, purples and pale lemons along with the striking green foliage made some amazing creations. Karen explained the names of the flowers she had chosen and why, and demonstrated how to arrange them for the best effect. No one could believe they were actually allowed to keep them!

There was mischief and trickery all around The Cedars this month as we celebrated St Patrick's Day this month. We enjoyed playing our Irish themed Pictionary game, with a delicious Irish coffee; before Ellen showed us her Irish dancing. She then recited the poem "the wearing of the green". Thank you Ellen for sharing your culture and knowledge with us all.

As part of our International Women’s Day celebrations, Residents from across our services were thrilled to join tour guide, Mandy Morrow, for an exciting talk about some Legendary London Ladies.

Mandy shared the fascinating stories of eight ladies with us, from the one of the richest heiresses in the world to the original 'Roaring Girl'.

Everyone who participated truly enjoyed the experience and were delighted to take a walk down memory lane.