Activities at The Warren Care Home
Here at The Warren, our activities team are always very busy thinking of new ways to keep residents active, both physically and mentally. We have regular trips out in the minibus, both locally and further a field, including the London Eye and the Thames River Trip), at least once a week during the summer months. We also enjoy visits from PAT dogs and have professional exercise sessions and live entertainment, which are always popular.
Kirstie Tifrani
My name is Kirstie and I am lucky enough to be the Activities Coordinator here at The Warren.
I have many years of experience working in care homes in Activities and leisure and lifestyle roles.
I love being part of The Warren team and supporting our residents to live their best lives with fun, interesting, and varied activities available every week. I always feel that the importance of residents' input into our weekly planner is important giving all residents equal opportunity to explore new interests as well as keeping up with previous interests and hobbies.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at The Warren Care Home
Teacup Bird Feeders
We had lots of crockery donated from a local charity, so we turned them into these gorgeous tea cup bird feeders. After lots of sticking and painting, we were done and think they look rather lovely. Now we wait for the birds…
Chocolate Cake Day
We incorporated two special events into one activity. It was National Chocolate Cake Day, and also as it was within January that we marked Veganuary at the same time.
We made sweet potato and raspberry brownies as well as chickpea and blueberry blondies. They were so easy to make and were also edible for all residents with any allergies or diabetics, as they were plant-based, whole food, with no oil or refined sugar. They were delicious and we really enjoyed making them.
Art Session
We paid homage to the great American painter, Jackson Pollock. We looked into his life and his work and saw how much they were being sold for and where they are displayed around the world. This gave us some great ideas of how to do our own artwork. We splatted, we drizzled and we brushed. It’s not going to sell for $250 million, but we like it and we all enjoyed creating it.
Australia Day
Our favourite this month has to have been Australia day; we have many residents with relatives in Australia, so this fitted quite well.
We decorated the lounge, and our first activity was Aboriginal art. We learnt the symbols they use, the techniques they use and we had some fun making this artwork. They will go on to be used to decorate our visiting suite too as well as some art work from our Sprowston community also.
In the afternoon, we had some live, on-screen entertainment from Rob Thompsett; he played all their favourites, read out personal messages from loved ones and played requests. They all had a fantastic time, and a few of us got up and did the Lambeth Walk too.
The end of the day was completed with our Australia quiz. There were fun Australia facts, and the winner of the quiz went on to play the box challenge and take the bush tucker trial. They had to guess what was in the box, and if they got it correct, they go on to try the food. They tried gummy snakes, 'chocolate' mice and fried seaweed. Our winner guessed them all and tried them all too.
Cuddly Cavies
This was such a great session. Some of our residents are less mobile, so taking a little living creature to cuddle was just what the doctor ordered. They were brushed, cuddled, fed treats and they were such good company too! Thank you to Cuddly Cavies for letting us have 4 of your loveliest animals.
National Elf Day
We had an Elf Day on 4th December for charity. The staff dressed up as elves; the residents though we had all gone a little crazy, but joined in the fun. It was a great day!
