What have our residents been up to in January?
It’s once again been a very busy month here at Avon Park with lots of activities to keep our residents entertained, fulfilled and stimulated!
Mainly this month, we’ve been focusing on health and wellness which is obviously a very popular topic. It was our aim to promote healthy eating and light regular exercise to boost the mental wellbeing and health of our residents.
To celebrate Chinese New Year we hosted arts and crafts to get the home suitably decorated for the occasion and to celebrate the year of the rat.
We’ve also begun getting ready for Valentines Day with lots of love-themed crafts and activities.
We had an amazing local choir, The Local Vocals, who kindly volunteered to come in and sing a selection of medleys – which we greatly enjoyed!
We also had the lovely children in from Chuckles Childcare and had a great morning getting to know them and playing games.
Our residents also enjoyed lots of dance parties with some old tunes to get them all dancing and clapping, and some singing.
To keep minds sharp and active, we included lots of games and quizzes in our activity timetable including bingo, a music quiz and a quick quiz!
We’ve also started playing a game where you have to list all of the small words you can make up out of a long word – we made 100 small words for the word astonishment and were astonished with our ability!
To ensure fitness levels and mobility are kept up, we offer a range of exercise and fitness activities in our schedule. This month we enjoyed a game of quoits, throw and catch and a range of mobility exercises.
Alongside those we also enjoyed some pampering with residents having the chance to get their nails done and we also indulged ourselves with a High Tea which was very scrummy.
