The Orchard celebrate National Care Home Open Day
At The Orchard Nursing Home we celebrated The Arts in the care home, for National Care Home Open Day. We started off in the morning with our Mixing Generations Group, which is run every Friday morning at 11am, and the children and residents decorated biscuits, which was a lot of messy tasty fun. The children and parents had a lovely time helping residents and going round resident’s rooms to give the biscuits out.
In the afternoon we had an entertainer Paul David, former member of The Guys and Dolls band from the 60s, all residents family and visitors loved his performance. We also had an art exhibition set up of all the resident’s masterpieces, which they had created over the past few weeks, we did a lot of ‘Lets Get Crafty’ sessions and this involved marble painting, still life painting/drawing, coloring with different mediums and hand painting for The Orchards Family Tree.
It’s been a busy few weeks but it was all worth it to show off their fantastic work. Everyone said how lovely it was too see everything come together and to see such a lovely exhibition, it had given the residents a purpose for all their hard work, and that is what the activities team likes to promote with all the activities, an end result so the residents still have a purpose.
The Orchard Nursing Home in St Albans, is an attractive purpose-built home providing the highest level of residential, nursing and specialist dementia care for up to 63 elderly residents.
If you would like to find out more about life at The Orchard Nursing Home please contact us on 0808 223 5544 or email [email protected].
