Author Archives: Karen Betts

Christmas decoration

     

Gingerbread trees

This morning Vicky asked who would like to help us decorate tree shaped gingerbread biscuits. [...]

Christmas Songbirds

This afternoon we had our Christmas Songbirds session, led by Yo Tozer-Loft. Vicky asked who [...]

Decorating Christmas cakes

This morning Vicky asked who would like to decorate the Christmas cakes that we baked [...]

White Christmas

This afternoon we sat and watched White Christmas and most people enjoyed a Hot Chocolate [...]

Christmas Carol Service

This morning we had a small Carol service that the local church was obviously unable [...]

Christmas wreaths

We had a go at making Christmas wreaths this afternoon with some willow wreaths and [...]

Snowball fun

This morning we had fun with the giant snowman that Helen made. Helen and some [...]

Christmas party

Sarah and Claire from Razzle Dazzle came to sing for us, this afternoon, for our [...]

Christmas manicures

Today Vicky went around doing manicures. This included hand washing, sanitizing, nail scraping, trimming, filing, [...]

Music session

This afternoon Roy’s son Matt and his friend Jack came to practice their music ready [...]

Christmas card crafts

This morning as part of our Christmas window frieze we made some presents to wrap [...]

Knitted angels

The ladies from Bents Green church, including Peggy’s daughter in law Ruth, kindly knitted lots [...]

Pin the carrot on the snowman

Yesterday morning Vicky painted a snowman picture onto canvas, so that we could use it [...]

Christmas cake Baking

This afternoon Vicky helped us to make and bake some Christmas cake. Those that chose [...]

Christmas Kim game

This morning Vicky played the Kim’s game with us. Vicky chose 8 Christmas objects from [...]

Kirsty’s birthday

This afternoon we celebrated the birthday of Kirsty, our kitchen Manager. We presented her with [...]

Christmas picture bingo and matching game

This afternoon, Vicky got out the Christmas picture Bingo for us to play. We had [...]

Reindeer ring toss

This afternoon Vicky blew up the Reindeer ring toss game, and went around, asking who [...]

Christmas reminiscence

This morning Vicky did a Christmas reminiscence session with us in the dining room. We [...]

Week 5 Visiting nook

We have just had our 5th week of using our visiting Nook. The Nook was [...]

Mildred’s party

This afternoon we had Nicola come to play the cello for us, and help us [...]

Cupcake decorating

This morning did a cupcake decorating activity with us, in the dining room. John, Jenny, [...]

Motion exercise session

This afternoon we had another fabulous exercise session with Zee Zee from Motion Exercise via [...]

Snowman fun

This morning Helen bought in a giant snowman with a head hole like the old [...]

Christmas crafts

We decorated the Christmas tree that we made and painted yesterday and today it was [...]

Manicures

This morning Helen went round offering manicures to residents and at the same time encouraged [...]

Christmas painting

This afternoon we did the next part of our big Christmas window frieze. A lot [...]

Christmas cards

This morning we finished writing our Christmas cards to family and friends and some of [...]

Mince pie making

This morning Vicky asked who would like to help make mince pies. Peggy, Stephen and [...]

St Marks Christmas cards delivery

This afternoon we had a delivery of Christmas cards from St Marks Church. They kindly [...]

Collaboration with Twelve Trees Care Home

This afternoon we teamed up with Twelve Trees Care Home, via Portal TV. We sang [...]

Category game

This morning Vicky played the category game with us. Today we played it with a [...]

John’s birthday party

Today is John’s birthday and the singer Alan Turner came to help us celebrate, from [...]

Christmas singing and fun

This morning there were a lot of sleepy residents so we had a short Sunday [...]

Singing in the garden

This afternoon Yoyosongshop came to sing for us. They are members of three separate choirs [...]

Christmas cards

This morning Helen bought some Christmas cards in and asked who would like to write [...]

Motion livestream

This afternoon we had a Motion livestream session with Zeezy. We do this by using [...]

Pampering

This afternoon Vicky was offering pampering. The options were cleansing, moisturiser, perfume, hair brushing and [...]

Arts and crafts

This afternoon we started what is going to be part of a big Christmas frieze [...]

Christmas tree decorating

This morning Helen took the small Christmas round  the main lounge on a trolley and [...]

Christmas tree decorating

Today we helped Vicky to decorate the Christmas trees. We put up one in the [...]

Week 4 Visiting Nook

We are going into our fifth week of having our visiting nook. It is going [...]

Songbirds

This afternoon we had a very enjoyable Songbirds session led by Yo-Tozer Loft. We sang [...]

Making paper chains

Over the next few day, we will be putting up the Christmas decorations around the [...]

Motion exercise

We had a brilliant live stream exercise session with Zee Zee from Motion exercise this [...]

Pampering and massage

Today Helen went round each resident in turn, asking who they would like some pampering [...]

Aqua painting

There must be something in the air today because everyone was super sleepy and a [...]

Bingo

This morning we had a few games of bingo with Helen. We started late because [...]

Sing along

This morning we had a sing along to brighten everyone up. There were a lot [...]

Film afternoon

This afternoon whilst assisted visits were going on, we put on the Carry on Doctor [...]

Sunday prayers and singing

This morning we had our usual informal Sunday prayers and singing session. There were quite [...]

Music session

This afternoon Helen got out the bag of percussion and let people choose what instrument [...]

Table top games

This morning Helen got out some table top games that people could play from where [...]

Week 3 Visiting nook

We are going into our fourth week of having our visiting nook. It is going [...]

Motion Livestream

This afternoon we had a Motion session, which was live via the portal TV that [...]

Manicures

This morning Vicky did manicures. She offered hand and nail cleansing, nail clipping and filing, [...]

Hallamshire Tattoo Parlour

Today Vicky became a mobile tattoo artist for the afternoon. Vicky ordered lots of different [...]

Bingo

This morning Vicky led a Bingo session in the dining room. Not as many people [...]

Messages home

This afternoon Helen asked each resident in turn what message they would like to send [...]

Cat therapy

This morning Helen got out Jasper and Clio, our “therapy cats” and went round asking [...]

Hook-a-duck

We had such a fun morning, playing Hook-a-duck together! Vicky brought the hook-a-duck game around [...]

Sing along session

This afternoon Vicky did two sing-a-long sessions, one in the small lounge, and one in [...]

Memory games

This morning Vicky did two sessions of memory games. One session in the quiet lounge, [...]

Movie afternoon

This afternoon whilst Vicky was doing assisted visits, we watched a musical in the main, [...]

Inhouse church

This morning Vicky led two in-house church services, One in the main lounge, and one [...]

Bingo

This afternoon Vicky led a Bingo session in the dining room. We had quite a [...]

Photo sharing

This morning Vicky took the trolley around with her and gathered a photo album or [...]

Edith’s Birthday Party

We had our first birthday party, since having the visiting nook. Kevin Kitchen came to [...]

Sewing, weaving, and threading

This afternoon whilst Vicky was assisting a visit, we did some sewing, weaving and threading [...]

“Baby” therapy

This morning Vicky brought baby Sienna to see us. We enjoyed cuddles. Vicky likes to [...]

Songbirds

This afternoon we had a Songbirds session, led by Yo Tozer-Loft. The last session was [...]

Week 2 of our visiting Nook

We have just had our second week of using our new visiting Nook. The Nook [...]

Active minds books

This morning Vicky handed around some books for us to look at and read together. [...]

Marek’s Birthday

Today is Marek’s birthday. Marek is one of our Domestic staff. We celebrated by singing [...]

Tabletop activities and puzzles

This afternoon, whilst assisted visits were happening, Helen left a variety of table top activities [...]

Remembrance day service

This morning we watched some of the Remembrance day service on television and marked the [...]

Cat therapy

This morning Helen got out our Jasper and Clio, our “therapy cats” and asked who [...]

Autumn leaf wreaths

This afternoon for Nature Club, Helen collected a variety of autumn leaves from our beautiful [...]

Poppy arts and crafts

This morning we did an arts and crafts session in the dining room with Vicky. [...]

Reminiscence

This afternoon Vicky set up a reminiscence interest table in the dining room, got out [...]

Bonfire and firework themed activities

This morning Vicky put on Youtube, a Disney World fireworks display called Happily Ever after, [...]

Bonfire cup-cakes

This morning Vicky showed us how to decorate cup-cakes to look like little bonfires. We [...]

Bonfire night quiz

As we are not able to have a bonfire this year, we had a bonfire [...]

Massage

This morning Helen went round offering massage and concentrating mostly on those residents who are [...]

Active minds books

This afternoon, Vicky went around with the active mind’s books. She read with us, sang [...]

Messages to our loved

This morning Vicky went around asking us how we are, and what messages we would [...]

Motion – Livestream

This afternoon we had a Livestream session with motion, the organisation that used to come [...]

Kim game

This morning Vicky played the Kim game with us, She chose 9 familiar items from [...]

Week 1 of the visiting nook

Well we have come to the end of our fist week of using our new [...]

Pamper day

Today was pamper day. We had a visit from our new hairdressers Julie and Joanne. [...]

Halloween arts and crafts

This afternoon we did some Halloween arts and crafts in the dining room with Vicky. [...]

Halloween selfie fun

This morning Vicky put together some Halloween selfie props and made a selfie booth for [...]

Pin the smile on the pumpkin

This morning Vicky did a session of pin the smile on the pumpkin with us. [...]

Cookie decorating

This afternoon Vicky set up a cookie decorating activity in the dining room. We didn’t [...]

Halloween activities

This morning Vicky did some Halloween themed activities with us in the dining. We played [...]

Sing along session

This afternoon we had a sing-along session with Vicky in the main lounge. We started [...]

Dress up fun

This morning we had some dressing up fun with a Halloween twist. Vicky got out [...]

Movie afternoon

This afternoon Vicky brought in the DVD Hocus Pocus for us to watch. With Halloween [...]

Manicures –

Today whilst watching Faulty towers Vicky went around asking who would like a manicure. The [...]