by Kirstie Newell | Dec 12, 2023 | Abbotsleigh Care Home, Arts and Crafts
Festive crafts a plenty have been happening here at Abbotsleigh Care Home! We’ve made some beautiful Christmas wreaths, jolly snowmen, colourful Christmas decorations and good-looking gingerbread men! It’s the best time of year and our Christmassy creativity has...
by Kirstie Newell | Sep 25, 2023 | Abbotsleigh Care Home, Arts and Crafts
When it comes to art, we are always excited to express ourselves here at Abbotsleigh Care Home. With a bit of help from our very creative Activity Lead Esme, we have created some beautiful and thoughtful pieces recently using clay, water colours, acrylic paint, tissue...
by Kirstie Newell | Sep 19, 2023 | Abbotsleigh Care Home, Arts and Crafts
Since our last Abbotsleigh Care Home flower show, our residents have become very competitive when it comes to arranging their flowers! Our Resident Liaison Kirsty’s car was full to the brim with blooms and many of our ladies were excited to arrange their own bouquets,...
by Kirstie Newell | Aug 21, 2023 | Abbotsleigh Care Home, Arts and Crafts
Our residents at Abbotsleigh Care Home enjoyed lots of creative activities last week including making decoupage trinket boxes, using leaves to print onto canvas and creating greetings cards using foam sticker shapes. We have been lucky to spend some time in our...
by Jodie Currey | Aug 9, 2023 | Abbotsleigh Care Home, Arts and Crafts
Some of our residents at Abbotsleigh Care Home got creative recently crafting their own pottery, with he help of Slap n Dash in Hawkhurst. Many of our ladies and gents are very creative and this was the perfect way to blend painting and pottery, with a unique twist....
by Kirstie Newell | Jul 26, 2023 | Abbotsleigh Care Home, Arts and Crafts
Silk painting is a great hit here at Abbotsleigh Care Home! During our recent session, our residents really enjoyed the creative side of it – delicately adding paints to fill in beautiful floral designs on silk pieces. A little squirrel had a peek at the crafts too,...
