Daily activities and games at St Teresas

Daily Activities at St Teresa’s

London, England

Our residents at St Teresa’s have enjoyed a wide variety of daily activities and games during October. Here you have the highlights of the month!

Visiting Westminster

Deirdre was especially happy on her ‘resident of the day’ morning when she was surprised with a nice outing to Westminster. We were very lucky to have sunny and warm weather and Deirdre said it was so lovely to be able to see London and to remember she is a Londoner as it was so long since she had been sightseeing. She had a great and entertaining time in front of Parliament chatting with the policemen and walking on Westminster Bridge. She was treated to a cappuccino and a long walk by the river embankment, which reminded her of the strolls she took there with her husband and daughter. She was happy and smiling the whole morning and on her return expressed deep gratitude for having the chance to visit some of London’s most beautiful places.

Painting Activities

Every Tuesday morning residents were happy to gather in the conservatory, enjoy a cup of coffee with treats, to chat with each other and take part in a painting session. They could choose from many colouring pages – landscapes, autumn leaves, flowers, fruits, and spent several happy hours colouring, helping each other choose the best colours and admiring the results, cheering each other. Most of the paintings are now displayed on a stand in the painting corner of the conservatory for all to enjoy.

Playing Together

Games continued throughout the month – we organised weekly team and competitive activities like hoops and bowling in the morning and in the afternoon the Scrabble club every Monday and Friday attracted new members like Frank who began playing for the first time in his life in October and by the end of the month was already quite experienced and winning several games. Maintenance officer Simon and Activities Coordinator Anita quite often join in and we are looking forward to the end of the month when everyone will be competing for a bottle of wine. At the same time, our residents who like more sensory stimulation enjoyed Magic Table games and jigsaw puzzles in the lounge – Joyce was especially happy with the new jigsaw puzzle she received on her ‘resident of the day’ morning – she said it was quite big and jolly and proceeded to complete it successfully with her companions.

Autumn Collages

We also featured this beautiful and colourful time of the in our craft activities. Marie is a painter and artist and on her special ‘resident day’ we went out together to collect attractive leaves and spent the afternoon preparing collages. Marie was very excited about this new activity and admired the leaves, which inspired her to make different colours combinations. She enjoyed touching them and was happy to help the other residents prepare their own collages. We also prepared some leaves to decorate the conservatory for the harvest celebration.