Activities at Wilton Place Care Home

This week Wilton Place Care Home residents enjoyed a variety of activities to celebrate Bonfire night. The day started with creating unique firework pictures with colourful paints and lots and lots of glitter. Residents got creative using different techniques to create their wonderful artwork, each one as marvellous as the next. 

Then when the sun went down everyone wrapped up warm and we all joined together in the garden to celebrate Bonfire night with sparklers and lots and lots of smiles and laughter.        

Our residents had their dabbers at the ready in the hope of a line or even a full house. A weekly activity here at Wilton Place Care Home and very popular with our residents.    

Wilton Place residents took a trip out on the homes mini-bus to visit Imagine this. Residents joined the Imagine This intergenerational session where they enjoyed sensory play with the children, including moulding magic sand!  

This was a lovely chance for the young and old to come together and get to know each other. After that, they enjoyed some tea and cake before returning home. 

Our craft club were inspired by London Fashion Week and decided they would like to create their own outfits. There was lots of chatter heard when choosing accessories and shoes and everyone remembered the fun they had when doing a similar activity when they were younger.  

In a recent craft club, residents used dried lavender from our garden to create their own lavender bags for their rooms. The activities room smelt wonderful and was a hive of activity as residents chose from a range of resources to decorate squares of felt fabric.   

Residents recently took a trip to The Salisbury Charter Fair. No one fancied a turn on the bumper cars but we did win a prize at 'Hook a duck' and enjoyed a treat from Reeves the bakers.     

This month's supper club was a celebration of British food.  

Residents enjoyed a delicious three-course meal prepared by our wonderful Head Chef Hayley. The menu included a delicious smoked mackerel and horseradish pate, followed by a beef, potato and ale pie with roast potatoes and honey-glazed carrots and broccoli, and they finished their meal off with an orange and sherry trifle.

This month, the supper club headed to Italy. Chef Rich cooked up a scrumptious meal, including Tuscan bean and pancetta soup served with ciabatta toast and fresh pesto, followed by breaded chicken with a Gorgonzola sauce served with garlic and rosemary fried potatoes, broccoli with fried onion and tomatoes in balsamic vinegar and for dessert: lemon and orange polenta cake.

Residents enjoyed wonderful company and some delicious wine to wash their meals down.         

Wilton Place residents supported each other during one of our recent word puzzle sessions in the Bistro. Two heads were definitely better than one and refreshments were close at hand to boost brain power! 

Did you know that Salisbury Cathedral sits on gravel and waterlogged meadow ground? Residents at Wilton Place learnt about this and lots of other interesting facts on a recent visit to this amazing building.      

The weather may have become autumnal, but our residents are still enjoying lots of fun exercise, just indoors!  

Henry enjoyed extra treats and cuddles from the residents today on his 11th birthday!  

This week's trip took us to our local town, Wilton. After visiting the Italianate Church, we made the obligatory stop in Reeves before having a look at the market stalls. The weather shone for us and residents had a wonderful morning.   

What can you do with a large collection of buttons? Our residents demonstrated their creativity in a recent craft club, when they selected buttons to produce amazing artwork to decorate their rooms. 

Wishing our lovely resident Hilda, a very happy 100th birthday.  Hilda celebrated in the bistro surrounded by family and friends. Many congratulations from everyone at Wilton Place Care Home!