Aveley Lodge Care Home

11/11/2025

05/11/2025

The residents and staff celebrated Halloween by dressing up, playing games and quizzes and enjoying spooky themed sweet treats.

05/11/2025

October's cooking club was a little scary as we prepared for the Halloween season and decorated rice crispy monster treats prepared by our lovely chef Amber. Residents used different coloured icings to create weird and wonderful treats for the evening meal.

05/11/2025

Residents tried their hand at pumpkin carving for Halloween. We made sure we didn’t waste the flesh which the chef made into soup what’s more we saved the seeds to roast. Once the pumpkins were finished, we displayed them outside for guests and residents to see.

05/11/2025

The residents have been keen to start a new group art project. We have followed the seasons with an autumnal theme and have started to create a restful woodland scene where you can peak into the burrows and dens of the creatures that live there. Watch this space for more updates. .

05/11/2025

As part of Halloween celebrations last week, we played ‘Roll a Pumpkin’ which involved using maths skills to add up a pair of dice and then residents’ artistic skills to add features to their pumpkins with fun accessories. There was some giggling, and everyone independently completed their pumpkin so well.

05/11/2025

Staff and residents came together recently to raise funds with a raffle and a few games. They raised an amazing £216. Well-done to our Activities Coordinator Sarah who organised the event and to all the staff for contributing.

05/11/2025

One of our residents enjoying her still life drawing of Dahlias in her spare time

05/11/2025

Work continued on our pumpkins using balloons and papier mâché recently. The residents just needed to wait for the final layers to dry and then they could paint them ready for Halloween.

05/11/2025

The residents thoroughly enjoyed the recent visit from Cash the therapy dog

05/11/2025

The residents listened to some good music whilst they joined the armchair exercise recently. We also fitted in some balloon games which caused lots of giggles and some great teamwork.

05/11/2025

The residents experimented with different art mediums ranging from different coloured cellophane, paints and coloured chalks to create some beautiful results for the other residents to appreciate.