Level: Difficult Length: Long-term Overview: Grow your own ingredients for moisturisers and lotions. Materials: Plants - cucumber and aloe vera are good for moisturiser, rose and lavender are great for their scent. How: Plant outside or in pots. Once the plants are growing well, cuttings can be taken for making your own lotions, with soothing
Level: Medium Length: 1 - 2 hours Overview: Watch the horse racing, place bets and play games. Materials: Large pictures of horses, giant dice, chocolate coins. How: Prepare for a day out at the races, wear your fancy clothes and hats. Create a race track with a start and finish point. Place bets on the winning
World Music Day Level: Medium Length: 1 hour Overview: Play music to evoke memories and conversation. Materials: Record Player, records. How: Ask participants, family members or friends to bring in records to play. Have a chance to listen, sing along and talk about memories evoked by the music. Hazelhurst Nursing Home
Level: Easy Length: 30 minutes Overview: Use the alphabet to encourage discussions around flowers. Materials: Whiteboard or large piece of paper, pens. How: Sit with the whiteboard or paper visible to all. Go through the alphabet naming flowers. It can lead to conversations about favourite flowers and what you have grown in the garden. Holmer Court Care
Level: Easy Length: 10 minutes + Overview: Use hats as a prop for encouraging a fun, imaginative story to develop. Materials: Hats. How: Try on different hats, and get into character of who would wear the hat. What would your job be? Where would you live? What do you like doing? Let your imagination run wild...
Level: Medium Length: 1 hour Overview: Taste different ciders and apple juices. Materials: Small glasses, a variety of ciders and apple juices. How: Pour a variety of ciders and apple juices into glasses. Guess which cider is which. Encourage conversation around apple growing and making cider in Herefordshire. West Eaton House Care Home
Level: Medium Length: 30 - 60 minutes Overview: Paint your own pot. Materials: Terracotta pots, acrylic paints, paint brushes, pencil, table cover or newspaper. How: Cover the table to protect it from the paint. Choose a theme, such as nature. You can draw the outline with pencil first, to give guidance when painting. Use the paint
Level: Easy Length: 30 - 60 minutes Overview: Plant your terracotta flower pot with bulbs or flowers. Materials: Compost, plants or bulbs, flower pot, gloves, trowel, plastic sheet. How: Place plastic sheet over your table. Fill your flower pot over half way, place in your plants or bulb. Fill up with compost, pressing down
Level: Easy Length: 15 minutes per person Overview: Relaxing hand massage Materials: Cushion, relaxation music, towels, lotion, massager’s hands. How: Play relaxing music and dim lights if possible. Place hands onto comfy cushion and one at a time give hands a light massage. Use delicious smelling lotions to awaken yours senses. Stonebow Unit, Hereford
Level: Medium Length: 30 - 60 minutes Overview: Finish the phrases. Materials: Paper, printer or a pen, scissors. How: Choose some interesting phrases and print them off (or write them