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Fun At Charnley House Care Home in Hyde

There have been lots of fun goings on recently at Charnley House.

Our residents have been making their own delicious trifles (some with more cream on the top than others)

We've had some rather competitive games of giant snakes and ladders

And have been colouring in a large I Love Manchester poster, which now has pride of place on display

We've also had a sing along and some dancing too. Staff and residents alike enjoyed themselves thoroughly.

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Disco & Dance Afternoon At Rotherwood

Recently, we have enjoyed our disco and dance afternoon at Rotherwood Care Home in Rotherham.

Our residents have enjoyed singing on the karaoke and dancing throughout the afternoon to 60s classics and rock and roll.

This was followed with our treat trolley where our residents enjoyed a sweet treat!

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Beach Day At Rotherwood Care Home, Rotherham

Here at Rotherwood, we have been enjoying our ‘Beach Day.’

We enjoyed out Mocktails while dipping our feet into the water, and sand to experience the feel of the beach. We have laughed, danced and sung throughout the afternoon listening to wartime classics while we have enjoyed the sunny weather.

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Violins and Ice Cream!

We've had a fantastic time here at Charley House over the last few weeks.

Everyone had a wonderful time when Helen the violinist visited us and played us a range of lovely music. The residents and staff enjoyed it so much that they got up to dance! Take a look at the images and videos below.

We've also had men's hour in the garden, where we have spend some time in our garden with some of the gents, enjoying the sunshine and reminiscing about past holidays.

And, finally,  we had a visit from the Ice Cream man. The local ice cream van came to visit and our residents all enjoyed a 99 with a flake, whilst sitting outside lapping up the beautiful sunshine.

 

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May Activities At Charnley House

As always, it’s non stop around here, so we thought we’d have a relaxing PJ Day with the residents. Nothing but some good lounging around and chatting, in our pyjamas!!

We’ve been busily drawing round our hands and colouring them in for our hand tree.

And played a “mystery box” game, where residents had to guess what items were in the box by feeling with their hands.

Two of our ladies have celebrated their birthdays, with cake and lots of cards and presents.

And we’ve been cooking up a storm of biscuits on our baking day!

And finally, one particular resident likes nothing more than sneaking off outside and doing some gardening. Looks like we caught him green handed this time!

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The King’s Coronation & more…

Charnley House has been a hive of activity over the past few weeks, with an especially busy week in the run up to the King’s Coronation.

We made decorations and baked red white and blue cupcakes and had a fantastic picnic lunch to celebrate. We all watched the Coronation and celebrations with sheer delight, and a little glass of fizz to accompany, and waved our flags along the way!

We’ve also been baking cornflake cakes and googly eyed cupcakes and enjoyed doing a spot of gardening in our outdoor planters.

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Activities At Charnley House Care Home In Hyde

We’ve had so much going on at Charnley House for the past few weeks, it’s been hard to keep up! So here’s a summary and a few photos of what the residents have been up to…

We’ve been playing a game with ping pong balls and cups. 

We’ve had great fun with balloons and the parachute, which made every one laugh out loud and was so bright and colourful.

We’ve had a few highly competitive games of cards. We think there may be a few sharks amongst our residents!

We’ve been crafting away with paper, feathers, ribbons and all sorts of wonderful materials to make these fantastic pictures of ladies in their finery.

We’ve had cake, coffee and a good old chat, which always goes down well, both with the residents and the team.

And we’ve been potting these lovely plants that are now on display around Charnley House

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Cards & Movies At Charnley House in Hyde

7th February was National Send a Card to a Friend Day, a chance to tell your friends how much they mean to you by way of a card.

There was a time when men and women wrote daily notes to their friends. There were thank you notes, party invitations, love notes and of course the gossip filled notes catching up on the previous evening’s antics! Now we have a minute to minute digital journal on social media! So National Send a Card to a Friend Day is all about stepping away from the devices and showing someone how much they mean to you.

So, here are some of the cards that we made and send to celebrate National Send a Card Day.

Also, Global Movie Day is held on the second Saturday of February each year to celebrate the power movies have to reach, connect and inspire people around the world. So, we decided to have our own movie night. We made a makeshift cinema with snacks and popcorn and enjoyed watching some great movies from different eras of film. Everyone really enjoyed the event and we had a good chat about the films afterwards as well.

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Cakes, Cookies & Connect 4 At Charnley House Care Home in Hyde

As we always say, it’s been a busy few weeks around here. We don’t let anyone get away with being bored here at Charley House, so here’s the roundup of activities over the last couple of weeks.

We’ve had A LOT of baking activities going on. Great for the winter weather and tasty for everyone!

We’ve had cornflake cake making…

Making and decorating our own cookies…

And making scones (a real favourite)…

We’ve had plenty of gaming activities, from the physical to the cranial. It all gets very competitive around here you know.

We’ve had a Connect 4 master championship…

And fun playing softball…

Finally we’ve had some more leisurely activities preparing our new Circus Wall. Our residents have been colouring pictures to go on the wall as well as painting some large mural masterpieces…