The Christmas elves (residents and staff) have been busy this week making their own decorations for the festive season.
The staff have once again come up trumps with some traditional home made decoration ideas, as you will see below.
Everyone had a fabulous time taking part and despite the restrictions currently in place are very much looking forward to Christmas!
Today we had a lovely couple of pictures sent to us from two local school children Charlie and Esme who wanted to draw Christmas pictures to help the residents get into the Christmas spirit.
What a lovely thought and the pictures are now up in the conservatory for all to see and one particular resident loved them so much he now has his own copies which has made his day!
Thank you so much Charlie & Esme from everyone at Valerie Manor.
What a lovely story to read! Well done to our community once again.
https://www.shorehamherald.co.uk/news/people/community-helps-build-visitor-pod-upper-beeding-care-home-keep-residents-safe-3038125
https://thelanternhouse.net/in-our-garden/care-homes/valerie-manor
We hope you enjoyed having the lanterns at your care home. It was our pleasure to bring them to you. We wanted to share some more information and photos about the project so you can see the lanterns in the other care homes participating in our project. Thank you for writing in the comments book, it was lovely to be able to connect with you in this way and I hope you enjoy it a a souvenir of the project… you can stick these newsletters in it.
All eight In Our Garden care homes received a box of materials in order to make a star lantern with residents.
Here’s are some photos of the wonderful stars that were made. We hope you enjoy using them and look to them as a light guiding us towards the Spring when the longer sunnier days will return.
Here’s a selection of photos from our Lantern House Lanterns when we installed them in Care home gardens.
We enjoyed setting up and taking down the lanterns. They are currently back in their home in a barn on a farm called Applesham Farm, Coombes, near Steyning. We have given them a good wash and dry after 2 weeks in wet and windy weather. Next the lanterns are going out to Leonardslee Gardens, near Horsham for Leonardslee Illuminated lantern trail in December.