by Kirstie Newell | Jan 15, 2024 | Arts and Crafts, Loose Valley Care Home
A huge ‘Happy New Year’ from us all at Loose Valley Care Home! Arts, crafts and nails! We have lots of artistic residents at our Home, so we spent an afternoon of decorating our own New Year’s banner to hang in our conservatory. Everyone got involved...
by Kirstie Newell | Nov 28, 2023 | Arts and Crafts, Loose Valley Care Home
Resin art Last Wednesday at Loose Valley Care Home, Maureen and our Recreation and Well-Being Champion Hayley got creative and made some resin letter key rings together. They used screws and raw plugs in some (to make them a bit manly!) and some silver foil to make...
by Jodie Currey | Nov 8, 2023 | Arts and Crafts, Loose Valley Care Home
Poppy crafting Our residents at Loose Valley Care Home love arts and craft activities, so in preparation for Remembrance Day, we created various designs of cut-out poppies. Using tissue paper, crepe paper and red card, we created a circle design, as well as a wreath...
by Kirstie Newell | Oct 18, 2023 | Arts and Crafts, Loose Valley Care Home
On Thursday 12 October we had fun at Loose Valley Care Home making cute hanging bird feeders from pretty china cups and saucers, in the hope of attracting small birds to our garden to stay a while outside our residents’ windows. Doug, Irene, Ada, Maureen,...
by Kirstie Newell | Oct 4, 2023 | Arts and Crafts, Loose Valley Care Home
We had fun creating some personalised drinks coasters recently here at Loose Valley Care Home, using resin moulds. Our residents decorated their designs with glitter and colourful jewels, choosing small ones which would fit inside the resin to make sure they covered...
by Kirstie Newell | Oct 4, 2023 | Arts and Crafts, Loose Valley Care Home
We enjoyed some creative crafts last week at Loose Valley Care Home. Heart art Our residents decorated large wooden hearts with some mini hearts inside. They used scrabble letters to add their names on to them and embellished their designs with glitter, jewels and...