by Kirstie Newell | Sep 18, 2025 | Arts and Crafts, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
With the leaves beginning to fall and the autumn breeze in the air, it’s felt like the perfect time to start our seasonal crafts here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home. Our talented residents got creative by painting beautiful autumn trees. Using rich...
by Kirstie Newell | Aug 6, 2025 | Arts and Crafts, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Birthday card crafting At The Old Downs Residential Care Home, we love nothing more than celebrating our residents’ birthdays — especially when it’s done with a personal touch. One of our favourite activities is creating beautiful handmade birthday cards,...
by Kirstie Newell | Jun 4, 2025 | Arts and Crafts, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Feeling creative… Last week here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home our ladies enjoyed coming together to share an arts and crafts session together, with a focus on woodland and wildlife. They made some delightful wooden fairy wind chimes for our outside...
by Kirstie Newell | May 21, 2025 | Arts and Crafts, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Last week at The Old Downs Residential Care Home, we tried a different type of creative activity – recycled arts and crafts! We found some old card, and old scourers and sponges, and wrapped them in clingfilm so our residents could use them to create beautiful flowers...
by Kirstie Newell | Sep 23, 2024 | Arts and Crafts, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Even though we have given autumn a warm welcome into The Old Downs Residential Care Home, the weather in the last week has pleasantly surprised us, with lots of warm sunshine across the days. We had to get our sun hats back out and put our scarves away! At the start...
by Kirstie Newell | Jul 10, 2024 | Arts and Crafts, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Last week our residents at The Old Downs Residential Care Home enjoyed using their art skills to create some beautiful paintings. Our residents used sponges and washing scourers to make special painting effects for the summer blossoms on their trees – everyone...
