Rosie bought her dog Jessie in to visit us. There was a lot of excitement when Jessie arrived. Petting Jessie bought back many happy memories for residents who used to have dogs. Jessie enjoyed the attention and a sneaky treat or two. Jessie went home a full and tired pup. We look forward to seeing Jessie in the future.
We had an armchair travel to Mexico where we dressed up in Sombreros and wore authentic Mexican moustaches, while trying out various Mexican dishes cooked up by Jane.
Who looked the most menacing Mexican? We dare not say, but everyone had a great time and loved the food!
We had a fun gardening quiz outside in Arcot garden, where everyone enjoyed some March sunshine and answered some questions on gardening.
We have been busy working on our art exhibit for the Seaton Tramway Art Exhibition Competition. We have entered the category ‘Animals of Seaton Wetlands’. Trevor gathered driftwood, shells and pebbles from local beaches as the medium for the exhibit. Our imaginative group created ‘Doris the Dinosaur’. Doris looks amazing and we are wishing them good luck with their entry.
Art Club went all spring-like when the residents made Daffodils from tissue paper. We used the same ideas as before when we made the table decorations, but this time used different shades of yellow and orange. Betty said it was one of the most beautiful things she had ever done, while Jeanne gave advice on where to put all the flowers on the window. We started our Spring Tree in the lovely dining room window. Jeanne, Mary, Jeff, Val, Jill and Joyce started off by painting a flower of their choice and colouring it in. While we let these dry, we then searched through some old magazines Trevor, our Activity Organiser, had brought in. Everyone chose a picture of food or vegetables to cut out to use in a collage as the backdrop. We then made a tree trunk and put that on the window, followed by the collage and then the flowers which we had cut out. We will add a few more things to it, but everyone loved the activity and was amazed at how good it looked when we put it all together.
There was lots of laughter and fun happening during a recent baking session. Shirley liked to cut the shapes the biscuits out. Another said they liked baking as it is something like they used to do. They were very tasty biscuits.
Physical exercise, yoga and movement are all part of our regular flexcericse classes.
Cook made some yummy chocolate and strawberry cakes. Shirley enjoyed handing out the homemade cupcakes.
We did an armchair travel to France this month.
A history of the Scouts included some of our residents testing their skills at knot making.