by Kirstie Newell | Jun 24, 2025 | Loose Valley Care Home, Sensory Exploration
Our residents at Loose Valley Care Home recently enjoyed a heartwarming and sensory-stimulating session with the Red Box Library. Using a special ‘Sharpen Your Senses’ box of cards, the group explored memories connected to the five senses: sight, sound,...
by Kirstie Newell | May 20, 2025 | Loose Valley Care Home, Outings & Trips
This month, in our minibus, we’ve taken two trips to Yalding and Kenward Trust for a unique alpaca experience with our Loose Valley Care Home residents, where we were able to be with the animals for one hour, petting and feeding them. We visited on Thursday 1...
by Kirstie Newell | Jun 10, 2024 | Games, Loose Valley Care Home
Some of our Loose Valley Care Home residents braved our ‘Guess What?’ game last week! The idea is to try and guess a hidden object just by touch and figure out what is in the bag. Of course we would never put anything horrible in there! We used items like...
by Kirstie Newell | Apr 2, 2024 | Loose Valley Care Home, Pet Therapy
River’s Rodents and Reptiles, run by owner River Lismer, visited Loose Valley Care Home on Tuesday 26 March. River takes his animals around to schools, parties, Care Homes and other settings providing a hands-on live animal experience, with fun, educational...
by Kirstie Newell | May 29, 2023 | Arts and Crafts, Loose Valley Care Home
Making small pillows with lavender is a popular aromatherapy project here at Loose Valley Care Home and they are really quick and easy to do! We had cotton fabric – which Paula from our team had cut to size and stuck with a hot glue gun – with two sides down to...
