by Jodie Currey | Mar 6, 2024 | Arts and Crafts, Lukestone Care Home
Springtime has arrived and our Recreation and Well-Being Team here at Lukestone Care Home were ready! We’ve had some fun with flowers recently, from sunflowers to daffodils and hyacinths, ahead of a sunflower competition. We have been gardening with sunflower...
by Kirstie Newell | Jan 10, 2024 | Arts and Crafts, Lukestone Care Home
Here at Lukestone Care Home we’ve been getting into a new year mindset, so we decided to make a vision board with the things we would like to accomplish in 2024. Our residents were more than happy to choose pictures of the things they would like to experience...
by Kirstie Newell | Nov 14, 2023 | Arts and Crafts, Lukestone Care Home
For Halloween this year we had fun making spooky bats from egg cartons here at Lukestone Care Home. Our resident Betty was very amused and after painting her bat black, and while Linda painted the face on, she laughingly said “What made you think of...
by Kirstie Newell | Oct 31, 2023 | Arts and Crafts, Lukestone Care Home
Our Lukestone Care Home residents have enjoyed Halloween pumpkin carving, painting the pumpkins, smelling the pumpkins and chatting with Niamh about trick or treating with their grandchildren. Brian looks like he is putting his pumpkin back together again. Great fun!...
by Jodie Currey | Aug 9, 2023 | Arts and Crafts, Lukestone Care Home
On Saturday 5 August here at Lukestone Care Home, we crafted some delicate wooden frames with our residents, and what fun it was! We used bamboo dowel rods and wooden spoons for the base of our frames. Using a glue gun, we pressed them together to create perfect...
by Kirstie Newell | Jun 6, 2023 | Arts and Crafts, Lukestone Care Home
On Sunday 28 May our residents painted cherry blossoms pictures using a special cotton bud technique at Lukestone Care Home. Mihaela, our Activities Team Lead, suggested we use big cotton buds which we prepared for our residents before the activity. We used large...
