by Kirstie Newell | Nov 2, 2023 | Celebrations, Loose Valley Care Home
Pumpkin painting On the run up to Halloween at Loose Valley Care Home, we decided to paint some pumpkins to use as decorations for the spooky season. Our residents had fun painting faces and shapes on a variety of pumpkins and were delighted to see them on display for...
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...
by Kirstie Newell | Apr 24, 2023 | Arts and Crafts, Loose Valley Care Home
One of our other Nellsar Homes recently asked for us to make some birthday cards for a lovely resident, Daphne, turning 100 with them at Woodstock Residential Care Home; they wanted to see if they could get 100 cards delivered for her special day. We were more than...
by Kirstie Newell | Jan 25, 2023 | Arts and Crafts, Loose Valley Care Home
On Thursday 19 January we journeyed ‘down under’ with some colourful Aboriginal dot painting at Loose Valley Care Home, as its coming up to Australia Day on 26th January. We decided to paint some Australian animals, including koala, lizards, fish, kangaroo...
by Jodie Currey | Dec 30, 2022 | Arts and Crafts, Loose Valley Care Home
Our residents at Loose Valley Care Home got creative this week, finding a new way to paint. We put a bunch of cotton buds together and dipped them in paint to create wonderfully colourful tree and flower pictures. Everyone really got into it and enjoyed themselves; We...