52 accessible and creative activities for everyone working with older people.
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Paintings in Hospitals – Creative Care Homes
Paintings in Hospitals
Paintings in Hospitals is delighted to present Creative Care Homes; a practical and helpful guide to enable everyone to deliver creative sessions within a care home environment.
Read MoreHow To: ‘Home’ – a simple art activity
Make It Better
A suggestion for a simple and enjoyable art activity by Make it Better (mitber) CIC.
How To: Only Connect
Arts in Care Homes
Resource pack to help develop care home pen pal partnerships and encourage creative writing activities.
Read MoreHow To: Everyday creativity
Arts in Care Homes
Developing everyday creative activities is a good way of bringing more art into your homes.
How To: Organise an art exhibition
Arts in Care Homes
User-friendly advice and tips on organising art exhibitions in care homes.
How To: Building community through the arts
Arts in Care Homes
User-friendly advice and tips on Building Community through arts.
A Choir in Every Care Home
Live Music Now
Launched in May 2015, A Choir in Every Care Home is an initiative to explore how music and singing can feature regularly in care homes across the country.
The Toolkit for Care Homes, aimed at care homes and musicians, provides practical tips and advice on how to bring music into the lives of care home residents.
Watch 5 videos made by Live Music Now on how to lead a music session.
Creative Minds
Creative Minds deliver accessible art sessions in care homes. They have a nationwide community of 40 artists and are able to deliver a diverse range of sessions exploring visual art, crafts and sculpture. Book a session
Region: Nationwide
Live Music Now
Live Music Now work with a very diverse range of people in different settings including care homes.
Live Music Now has eight regional branches. To find a professionally trained musician to come and do a session in your care home see listings in a wide range of different genres and then contact your regional branch for their contact details.
Music in Hospitals and Care
Music in Hospitals & Care improves the health and wellbeing of children and adults through the healing power of live music.
Every year, the charity’s professional musicians share live music with people across the UK who may not otherwise get to experience it. This includes those living with dementia, who have mental health problems, or who are seriously ill.
Alive Activities
Alive Activities provide dynamic person-centred creative activities for older people living in care homes, allowing participants to shape the content and direction of sessions. Alive Activities provide a variety of arts sessions and staff training workshops for care homes.
Region: Bristol & surrounding counties