On Tuesday 26 January we celebrated Australia Day at Woodstock Residential Care Home with lots of fun-filled activities and themed decorations including inflatable palm trees, monkeys, snakes and kangaroos!
We had a special visit from Ant and Dec who brought some Jungle Trials to our Home! Our trials were created from four painted cardboard boxes with holes cut out with different things to feel inside. Our residents were brave enough to put their hands in and have a guess what we had in each box!
Box 1: Cooked spaghetti with a touch of oil to create the slimy effect of worms
Box 2: Jelly with little rubber bugs
Box 3: Pieces of fur from pampas grass
Box 4: Shaving foam
Each box was a ‘mission’ and we had fun with the messy ones! It was interesting hearing all the guesses. We took all these trials to our residents on our ‘Trial Trolley‘ and had Australian music to set the scene.
We also had a Spin the Wheel Bush Tucker Trial which everyone braved too; our prizes were bug-shaped gummy sweets! We had a game for staff too, so everyone could join in on a trial.
We also had a second spinning wheel game, featuring ‘Bean Bozzled‘, where you could spin the wheel to get either a nice flavoured jellybean (eg strawberry!) or a revolting one (eg fish!).
During the day we served Pina colada cocktails, beer and BBQ chicken skewers and everyone had a photo taken with Ant and Dec. Later on for teatime our residents enjoyed Lamington cake and pavlova to celebrate.
As part of the day, Iris had a lovely Skype call with her daughter who lives in Australia. Iris told her daughter all the fun things we had planned and wore an Aussie hat for the call! They had a lovely chat and Iris cannot wait to go and visit her daughter when she can.
Such a fun and lively day at Woodstock – we all had a blast and survived our jungle trial experience!
