Easter Comes to Bothwell Castle Care Home in South Lanarkshire

Our residents and staff here at Bothwell Castle Care Home here in Motherwell have been so excited to celebrate Easter.

Our residents explored their creative side during our arts and crafts session in creating Easter bonnets and baskets. Residents used a range of different materials including raffia, models of baby eggs, lambs and chicks to decorate their bonnets and baskets in which we displayed along the windows and activity boards of our home. All of our residents throughly enjoyed seeing all the different creations on display.

We also put on some Easter-inspired bingo for our residents along with some Easter-themed colouring sheets and even our residents who visited us for a short period of time for respite care also got involved.

Last month our raising of the baby chicks inspired some Easter creativity within our home amongst residents and seeing their Easter crafts displayed around the home really brightened the place up.

Finally, we celebrated Easter Sunday by reading passages from the bible of the Easter story, some residents by request were also visited by our local priest, Pat.

The whole purpose of these Easter celebrations was to enhance mental stimulation and wellbeing, encouraging cognitive function whilst promoting inclusion and religious observance, allowing our residents to remain active, creative and engaged. This also benefitted our residents as it helped them develop more social skills through interacting with others, providing mental stimulation and overall, encouraging residents to have fun with one another. We also found it helped our residents engage within the community, promoting their religious beliefs.

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