by Kirstie Newell | Oct 4, 2023 | Arts and Crafts, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Our residents at The Old Downs Residential Care Home made a start on some harvest festival decorations on Friday 30 September. We planned the theme of ‘autumn trees and leaves’ and made a collage painting, with some help from kind family members. Our...
by Kirstie Newell | Sep 18, 2023 | Arts and Crafts, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Stone painting Last week our residents at The Old Downs Residential Care Home created their own artwork on stones to put in our garden. Our ladies used their own imaginative skills to create colourful pictures and they loved painting on the stones and seeing their...
by Kirstie Newell | Sep 6, 2023 | Arts and Crafts, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Last week some of our lovely residents joined in for an arts and crafts session here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home. Our ladies and gents thoroughly enjoyed socialising with one another as they painted colourful bird and floral wind chimes, which will be sure...
by Kirstie Newell | Jul 26, 2023 | Arts and Crafts, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
This week at The Old Downs Residential Care Home our residents had fun dressing up their own paper dolls in an arts and crafts session together. Everyone used their imagination for this task and really enjoyed decorating their paper models with an array of colourful...
by Kirstie Newell | Jul 11, 2023 | Arts and Crafts, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
On Thursday 6 July our residents at The Old Downs Residential Care Home made thank you cards for the children of Hartley Primary School, following their recent visit to our Home. Our ladies and gents thoroughly enjoyed the youngsters’ visit and loved making the...
by Kirstie Newell | May 29, 2023 | Arts and Crafts, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Last week our residents at The Old Downs Residential Care Home enjoyed a creative session together when they collaborated to create some colourful collages with paints. Using their craft skills they also made some salt dough which they then cut into different shapes...